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Here are the beginnings of the newest quilt project.  Once it is finished, we’ll be sure to post a free pattern, but right now it is just a Jenga stack of promising 4″x4″ squares… In an effort to keep the fabric stash reasonably under control, I only allow myself to buy either yellows or greens.  Hence a future quilt that

Here is a little eye-candy montage from October’s Alameda Antique Market.  It’s amazingly close to our home, nestled on the edge of what I overheard a gentleman kindly refer to as the “Oakland Riviera” – right under the noses of the huge cargo ship cranes that look like a fleet of Trojan horses when you fly out of OAK. We

It was a low moment during our August deadline when I found myself, closer to 30 than 20, licking a square of blue ink off of the surface of a red fruit roll up, only to reveal yet another layer of ink embedded in sugar with the “Double Dare” suggestion that I wear a chicken suit to school. But there