Assembly
I’m trying different layouts of these squares. So far they are very regular and balanced. I’m wondering what would happen if I shifted them to be more out of balance – mostly yellows on...
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Nine nines
I stitched a few one-inch squares every morning. Then I stitched them into strips of three. Then stitched three strips of three into nine-patches. Very satisfying and before I knew it, I had nine....
Yellow courage
It lifts my spirits looking at all this yellow. Long strips stitched down on both sides with Deb Lacativa’s dyed floss (2 strands). Now to start on the short sides. 23 of them (one...
Patch play
I laid out the two-inch patches and played with finding pleasing arrangements. I like some of these a lot and may stitch them together. Some are still a play-in-progress. My favorite part of this...
The knowledge that surrounds us
I was stitching this frame together and my mind was turning over phrases that could be its name. I started with obsessively thinking “between the ocean and the deep blue sea.” That became the...
Twos and threes
More squares. Two and three inch. Most of the fabrics below came from Deb Lacativa’s big bag of scraps. I like the rainbow colored mix of the middle nine square. The colors below seem...
Patch math
I’m up to 50 one-inch squares. Four eights (“frames” in Jude’s language) and two nines. I like how they look photographed on this brick red coffee table that we kept from Sam’s parents’ home....