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March 13, 2013 By Mandy 2 Comments

The tradeoff

Spent 3 hours outside today (sunny and 47 with ice melting on the ground counts as Spring, right?) with my my sweet girl who couldn’t get enough of the wind and the sun and the squashy ground and the swinging! And sliding! and the blowing of bubbles!  To chase! The tradeoff is that I didn’t […]

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February 27, 2013 By Mandy 6 Comments

What is Modern Quilting, and Who Am I? My Thesis (or manifesto?)

When I was a senior in highschool, I had to write a senior thesis in order to graduate answering the question “What is man, and who am I?”  Pretty serious stuff for a 17 year old kid  (I remember I had based it largely on Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, […]

Filed Under: Origins, Works in Progress

February 25, 2013 By Mandy 2 Comments

Oh, and I got some new ink

…and not Tsukineko.                   I’ve been wanting a tattoo for a while that represented my best beloveds, but perhaps all those studies about the ancient world and magic were what made me superstitious about getting anything in writing.  Well, maybe the star magazines, too.  And all those […]

Filed Under: Events, Origins

January 23, 2013 By Mandy Leave a Comment

Pondering origins

So I’ve booted the kids out of the playroom with windows and moved my sewing room up from the basement (without windows).  This has been most definitely an improvement.  In the process, I have also been working through my stash, folding it using the comic board technique, and generally just reminding myself what I have. […]

Filed Under: Origins, Works in Progress

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