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May 31, 2022
Working with Strings from Fret Not Yourself

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed.
~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Quilting


Leftovers from  the light green back of my Wheel quilt make the center string on these blocks. The other strings are the "dark" ones from my scrap bag. I used many of the paler ones on the baby word quilts. 

But the green and yellow string conflicts with the center...
 

So I took it out by ...

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September 14, 2021
Scrappy Trip Finished from Fret Not Yourself

Too often the people complain they have done nothing with their lives 
and then they wait for somebody to tell them that isn't so.
~Charles Bukowski

Quilting


This was a quick baby quilt and is still pretty. I enjoy using all my sister's scraps {and a few of my own.} So many nice fabrics. It's always fun to find new ways to combine the colors.

Scrappy Trip Around the World baby quilt

With sixteen blocks, the quilt finishes a bit larger than a baby quilt so it will be ready for an older sibling who didn't ...

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