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and it might be hard to donate it i looked this up in my 2 block encyclopedias here s barbara brackman s and here s jinny beyer s interesting that she has them pointed downward i like them better going up i m making progress on my february squircles it s 5 step process 1 choose fabric pairs 2 cut the background and squircle pieces 3 turn the squircle seam allowances since i m using the prepared edge method and using triple layer freezer paper templates 4 remove template and baste squircle to background 5 hand appliqué squircle to background altogether an enjoyable process after this month s batch i need to pu them all on the design wall and make some decisions about arrangements and what further colors might be needed thinking about calling this traveling the silk road and wondering if a border of flying geese might work i m making slow but steady progress on the first whimsical vases border i do a needleturn technique with paper on top the paper sulky s totally stable regular freezer paper is ok too stabilizes the pieces and provides a nice edge for the stitching and easily peels off afterwards we ve been in the deep freeze so lots of time at home with my sewing projects screenshot i still get out and walk when i can i m enjoying the extra hour of daylight and doing my best to enjoy the beauty of the snow be kind be grateful and cherish each day gladi january 25 2026 new and ongoing projects etc january 25 2026 gladiporsche 27 comments greetings dear readers my heart aches for the deaths and suffering ice has caused in minnesota and elsewhere and i am ashamed of my government i have mixed feelings about posting photos of my work with so much cruelty and chaos out there but i also know that many of you need some beauty and delight to help you get through so maybe sharing what helps me get through will help you too there s a quote from the book i just finished still life by sarah winman as counterpoint to our suffering we have beauty art is the antidote or at least part of the antidote i d add love friendship nature compassion i started a new project it s going to be a donation baby quilt and was inspired by elizabeth at occasional piece she made a small wall quilt and published a free pattern if you re interested i was smitten by the block which finishes 6 inches here are my first nine blocks these are fun and easy to make i ll need 36 plus a border for a baby quilt i also have a new challenge for what will likely be a wall quilt wendy at the constant quilter made a quilt using this beautiful fruit panel from an antique fabric go to wendy s blog or instagram site to see what she made the textile contained 4 of these and when i admired it she sent me one i ll use it as a center medallion for something and i hope to get started this winter now back to my older projects for the house quilt i was thinking of adding a strip of indigo across the top to represent the night sky and applique some cheddar stars here s a mock up just to see what it would look like i started with larger stars but they looked too big these smaller stars would be very difficult to appliqué with all those little points also i m just not sure i like the look that much so i m thinking of just adding a red strip the indigo without stars looked too dark in the mock up the border isn t cut yet so appears sideways anyways that s where it stands for now i ve made great headway on the whimsical vases border the way i chose fabrics is by pinning the quilt to my design wall and the border up next to it and the pattern next to that then i was able to hold fabrics up to their designated places and make sure the colors were right then i pinned a chunk of that fabric in place until all pieces were chosen then i cut out the pieces after ironing on the templates and basted them to the background here s the beginning i stitched some pink embroidery embellishment around the vase to make it stand out a bit more many more hours of stitching ahead i ve made a few new hexagon flowers earthly delights the snow is just beginning here but we already have a fair amount of snow on the ground i ve talked about how austere things look here in winter buds hold but we do get some lovely sunrises and sunsets i love how the buds in winter hold the promise of new life to come in addition to quiltmaking music is another art that helps me get through these troubled times i am still enjoying daily music in this book the piece featured on 1 20 seems so appropriate for now a meditation on violence and its repercussions and it is gorgeous i know you can listen on youtube or ofthe music programs i m learning this beautiful irish air on the accordion you can also listen online if you want the snow here has begun to fall stay warm stay safe stay caring and compassionate be kind be grateful and cherish each day gladi january 13 2026 needle in toe f u house quilt and squircles updates earthly delights books january 13 2026 gladiporsche 10 comments greetings dear readers let me start this post with a follow up to my crazy story about the needle in my left great toe i saw the orthopedist late last week to ostensibly schedule surgical removal but repeat x rays showed another surprise the needle is gone somehow it managed to work itself out how it did that without me being aware is something no one can explain i was assured it could not have traveled to any other part of my body a mystery i had noticed that the discomfort had mostly resolved the week before the appointment of course i am happy not to have to have surgery my main lesson don t go barefoot in the house i ve been working on the house quilt when you don t use a pattern you have to make all the design and measurement decisions my decision to stagger the houses required decisions on sashing fabrics and width and how widely to space the houses both horizontally and vertically i wanted to try to use fabrics on hand if at all possible i chose a slightly darker fabric an inch wide for the horizontal sashing between each house i didn t have enough of any one fabric for the vertical strips separating the rows but luckily the local quilt shop near the orthopedist i went to last week had one fabric in the shop that works here s what it looks like on my design wall with 4 of those vertical seams still needing to be sewn i think the spacing came out aesthetically pleasing i have another idea for the center before adding the border more on that to come i have finished all of my squircles for january these are so much fun and easy and relaxing to make here are some closeups which show off the beautiful silk fabrics i decided it was time to get started on the border for whimsical vases luckily i already had the border background pieces cut i had to mark the vines and put all the short pieces that the long vine covers on first and make templates for all the flowers and leaves 54 pieces since the photo above i ve got the entire vine hand appliqued on and am ready to start choosing fabrics for all those templates i managed to win a really nice gift at my quilt bee s holiday party yankee swap a hand made pincushion and beautiful pair of scissors i also want to share a gift my future daughter in law my son and long time partner finally got engaged gave me a really cute and perfectly functional mini vacuum it s great for the sewing room surfaces earthly delights winter can be so austere here that i have to be extra observant to observe some of the loveliness it offers lichens have their moment when they don t have to compete with the colorful flora of the other seasons ice coating branches ice on the river snow on the pond and caught here i haven t shared books i ve read for a while here are 4 screenshot this was published in 1778 burney was a favorite author of jane austen and influenced her writing it s not as good as austen s work but still good and i recommend it if you like classics from that era the kites was published in france in 1980 and i m pretty sure available in paperback it was an excellent read and i recommend it here s info from the back cover notice the kudos by sartre and degaulle this next one the land in winter was a finalist for the booker prize for 2025 i read the whole thing but would not recommend it as i read it i was thinking about how 3 things are important for me to like a book good writing good story and characters that i like or are at least interesting this book was well written but i didn t like the story or the characters finally my next book group book this book is not great literature but it s pretty good writing a decent story and has some fun characters it is a somewhat light but quite enjoyable read and in these dark days for our country sometimes we need that hope your year is off to a good start be kind be grateful and cherish each day gladi december 31 2025 my year in quilting december 31 2025 gladiporsche 23 comments greetings dear readers 2025 turned out to be quite a year for me re quilting i completed 8 quilts added 3 more completed tops to the to be quilted pile make good progress on a few other projects and started some new things i love this quote from a carolina oneto instagram post as it fits my situation too these quilts represent months in my case sometimes years of thinking adjusting questioning and trusting intuition they are not perfect and that s exactly why i love them i finished 2 long journey projects maple leaf rag and dutch sunflowers i finished hand quilting remembering rosemary my tribute to my quilting buddy who passed away in 2024 and i completed my online tiny nine patch challenge i finished a nyb small wall quilt from a linda hahn class and made 2 of these hand quilted doll quilts for yankee swap holiday gifts finally i completed my tomie nagano inspired spirit of japan 7 treasure trove with hand quilting the tops i completed that are awaiting quilting are 1 southwestern string quilt 2 here comes the sun this year s scrappy meets thrift online sewalong i decided not to add the floral or any other additional border to the above 3 autumn cheddar wall quilt i made excellent progress on whimsical vases completing the center applique blocks and i had winterberries basted and have started hand quilting it i started 4 new projects in 2025 one was here comes the sun the other 3 are 1 hexagon flowers 2 squircles elizabeth s at occasional piece blog online sewalong 20 per month for 9 months through may of 2026 i have all my blocks prepped for january hand appliqué here are the new ones i just basted i am using 60 wt mettler for the hand appliqué because that s what i have on hand 3 house quilt this was inspired by the gorgeous paula barnes print i m using for the border i decided to add hand embroidered window panes and really like the extra detail here you can see the difference with and without i will add sashing so the houses are not touching but i m also thinking of possibility adding another little design element stay tuned 2025 also saw me exhibiting time of plenty at the new england quilt museum very exciting i went on 2 quilt retreats one in arizona and went to quiltcon in phoenix whew what a year i hope i am as productive and enjoy the process and the quilting community as much in 2026 as i did in 2025 to finish out 2025 and take us into 2026 i am going to quote writer teacher and author sarah sentilles i saw this on sulieka jaouad s substack the isolation journals now is the time to recommit to what matters most to us to put whatever it is that we call sacred at the center of our lives of our days to commit to the kind of world in which we want to live and to decide who and how we want to be in that world to take back our focus art can help us practice this the impulse to make art is ancient and sacred your art matters it s needed essential we are all artists here painters and cooks sculptors and farmers parents and writers scientists and poets teachers and musicians and the muscles of our visionary minds are growing stronger and stronger with every word every piece of clay every brushstroke every stitch we create a reimagined world and we choose to live there now thank you for reading wishing you all a wonderful peaceful art filled 2026 be kind be grateful and cherish each day gladi december 23 2025 quick project updates annual party crazy story december 23 2025 gladiporsche 31 comments greetings dear readers i ve neglected my blog because it s been a busy time of year but am trying for a quick update before christmas first i have managed to fit in some sewing here and there the house quilt told me it wanted to be bigger and a rectangle i looked at 36 houses set straight horizontally and vertically i decided i preferred the houses staggered with some space between and decided to go with 6 rows across and 7 down in the above photo i have 40 of the 42 houses needed complete next i need to decide what i m going to use for sashing and how to best place the houses after i started making the houses i remembered i had in my library a lovely book about houses in folk art it s a beautiful book with sections about houses in embroidery quilting painting rug hooking etc and lovely illustrations in the quilt section they talk about pieced houses and applique houses and so inspirational and fun to peruse i ve been hand appliquéing my hexie flowers to their backgrounds i need 98 blocks have 75 made and 44 appliqued to backgrounds one by one they get done i also am knitting another scrarf just like the cream one i finished a few months ago only this one is a luscious teal color for decades al and i have hosted a christmas party dinner with several couples who are close friends and with whom we love to play music we are so blessed to be able to keep doing this it s a lot of prep but totally worth it i m sharing a few photos you might enjoy skip s famous mussels i can t believe i forgot to get a photo of sarah s incredible chocolate yule log dessert wonderful music before and after the meal the gals and the guys me with our tree so here s my crazy story this past august i stepped on something small on the rug in my upstairs hallway just outside my sewing room that gave me a small cut on the bottom of my left great toe i never could find what made the cut and i definitely couldn t feel anything in there i had some intermittent sharp pains for a while which i attributed to the cut for a while though i had some brief episodes of discomfort on the other side of the toe even after the cut healed then i was fine without any discomfort for a couple months until about 3 weeks ago i noticed tender lump not anywhere close to where the cut had been i made an appointment to see a podiatrist yesterday thinking it might be a corn some of you may have guessed where this is going an x ray shows i have a needle or part of a needle lodged in my toe it actually migrated to the other side from where the cut had been i am going to need surgery to have it removed i ll keep you updated but it s not interfering with walking...