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Documenting growth.

2/22/2023

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I went down a rabbit hole this past week. It started when my phone ran out of all storage space. And my photos took up over 50% of it. I downloaded essentially all of 2022, got them sorted, catalogued, and backed up. One day I went to pull up a quilt, and it had been carefully archived away. So my rabbit hole told me to get 1 photo of every.single.project I have ever made. Oye. I quickly pared that down to not include the tiny things - pot holders and table runners, key FOB's, etc. But still, there were so many. I knew I had a bunch back there. Honestly the ones before 2018 are for the most part, ones I don't mind forgetting. They are my beginner quilts. I was a beginner at piecing, at picking out fabrics, at long arming. And while I feel a bit cringey looking at them now, it's putting them up next to the quilts I have created recently that allow me to see the incredible growth I have experienced. Oh I still get some failures on color choices and execution, but it makes those older quilts hold a special place in my heart now. A feeling of gratitude and awe of how this hobby has turned me into an artist. (Now to just up my game on quilt photography .... ;) )
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The Never Ending Log Cabins

7/24/2022

 
I made a lot of log cabins after that first Christmas. I felt confident in what I was doing, which allowed me to get better each time. My mom kept {kindly} harassing me to try something else, maybe something with a triangle, but I was firmly in the camp of doing something enough times to get really good at it. I think this green and gold was the last one I tied, and I am pretty sure I took it apart a few years back and put it on the longarm! It was gifted though, and I can't remember who got it. 
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Now that I was getting good, it seemed like a great time to start that WIP (works in progress) pile. This hung out there for at least 10 years. I wanted a quilt for my bed, made by me, and this was to be it. The dark green blackberry fabric and the red centers made me think of home (Oregon), as I was living in Colorado at the time. I finally finished it after Addison was born, and quilted it on my mom's Gammill longarm. It was large, king-sized, and my husband wasn't keen on it, so it was gifted to my brother who also noticed the blackberries, and who hadn't received a gifted quilt yet <3
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The First Finish

7/17/2022

 
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​The Irish Chain may have been my first quilt to begin, but the Log Cabin was my first quilt to begin 
and finish. ​It was Christmas 2004, and I was on the search for meaningful (and budget friendly) gifts.

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There is always a first

3/5/2022

 
The quilting community is strong on Instagram, and while I feel late to the cool kids party, I dip my toes in whenever I can. Amy Ellis (@amyscreativeside) hosts a yearly quilt fest with daily subjects for posts. I managed to get stuck on day 2 .... Your First Quilt.
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