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It is working!

Happy to report that I’ve finished another table “runner” this weekend. These were the left-over blocks from Kelsey’s super potholder, and I sashed it with white, used a lovely teal Marcia Derse fabric on the back, and bound it with a stripe from Bits and Pieces. Had my quilting design all picked out and then realized it would make the back simply ugly, so instead I quilted following the back which gave me a nice non-uniform grid.  

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9 Patch

Yes! I am finishing projects, but I’m trying to finish three to four table runners, so they keep multiplying. I’m thinking white with 9 patches, maybe 3? Absolutely love this block, all but one square are fabrics we have created. Thanks mom and Taylor 🙂 

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Zimsum

I like poems that make me think, explicate my beliefs, challenge the rote answers, and wonder. This post from MinEmergent (I get their daily thought emails) is one that I want to come back to this week…..more than once.  The thought that “there is the opportunity for real hope to break in” is one I have been pondering. How does it happen? How am I a part? Where should my strength come from? Where do I find my balance in the duality that I am enough and yet can lean into God?

ZIMSUM
Terry L. Chapman 
God Is In Control
Really?
No matter how many times
I hear these words 
there is a voice,
that with convincing whisper,
insists this is faux hope.
Some, in order to live
as if this is the rock on
which the castle of their faith is built 
remain vigilantly poised on the parapet 
summoning the hope they learned in Sunday School
 that the siege of life’s demons
might be held back
by making the confession over and over- 
God is in control
God is in control
God is in control
as if by its very repetition it 
might become true
and at last the weapons of 
this spiritual warfare can be 
but back in the armory-

God is in control
God is in control
God is in control!
Hoping against all hope
that it is true-the unimaginable 
betrayal that it isn’t.
To say so is to turn your back on all
that is right, and true and american-
sinking into the abyss unbelief. 

God is not in control.
There, I said it.
Now in the letting go of these
shackles that, unimaginably,
restrict God’s freedom,
God’s wild, beautiful, terrible
intention to create a free world,
there is an opening created
for real hope to break in-
real hope
that all that is is in God
in whom we live and move and have being.
And not just us but the other too.
And not just the other but the whole cosmos
in God has being.

Real hope is
that God bears all-
that all is in the womb of God-
that out of this space-in-God
the new is being born
and in the fullness of time
God will be all in all 
and there will no longer
be any need to believe
God is in control.

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Finished!

I’ve been enjoying the process of laying out, sewing, and quilting this table runner, and it is finally finished! Yeah! I was aiming for a contemporary, beachy feel and I think it works. The first quilting was about 1/2″ apart, and the shadows were too strong, so I doubled the stitching, and now the shadows simply become an overall pattern. Early summer at the beach, just looking at it makes me smile.

Can’t you imagine the cool sand between your toes, the icy water teasing your footsteps, and the dune grass twisting in the breeze?

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Fabric joy

Two fabric packages today! First order from Marmalade, what a lovely package and note from Tammy. The fabrics are awesome, some to go to Kelsey for her Farmer’s Wife quilt, and some to round out a couple of projects I have in mind. Can’t wait to get started!



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My piece of joy

Been enjoying putting together these cards. Went to the Kelsey museum over lunch and enjoyed a display of glass from from 100 BC to 100 CE. One decorative piece was gray with charcoal, cream, yellow, and red circles and I was reminded just how much life cycles. And yet, we each add our own piece, a piece only we can add, to the whole.

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A project finished!

One of my goals I decided on as I cleaned the studio this fall was to “finish projects” — I find it too easy to be too hard on myself and never finish anything, but then I don’t learn either. I want to learn! and grow! So, I finished the cards with the fun circles, “Joy is contagious”, and yes, from a very fun recycled stamp, Buzz Lightyear does make an appearance.

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Joy is contagious

This summer I made a bunch of paper circles from fun, wacky papers (Buzz Lightyear may or may not have been included in this project – To infinity and beyond!) Cleaning up the studio, I decided I should make them into happy cards …. here is the first. A reminder to myself that joy is catching, and a way to share it with those around me.