How much stuff can your brain do?

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

I’m becoming convinced that quilting and the figuring and measuring and all that I’m doing in this part of it, knocks out whatever words might have come out of my brain. Getting anything down for today’s August Postcard Poetry Fest postcard was tough. So I wrote about this problem, LOL. Bleah, my brain is empty.

I have gotten eight lovely postcards so far, plus a bonus one from Mom sent while she was in Norwich VT (where we went for years to the Vermont Quilt Festival!). Thanks everyone! (And for the record, Mom’s postcard had a poem on the back!)

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Monday after Sunday

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

Hi! I’m Mary Beth and I’m a collector of art supplies. But at least I can say now, honestly tht I’ve had to replace paints because I’ve used them up and gone through a whole pad of 5.5x 8.5″ paper!

I realized yesterday as I was getting ready to finish the edges of my current quilt-in-progress that no one will see what I put into the quilting after I sew down the facings. Yes, if you looked really really really hard on the front you might see it. This is on the back, never to be seen again:

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Another Drive Home, Another Sunset

Posted on August 5, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

ho hum, right?

I had dinner with Mom tonight and straightened out her Pokemon issues and we had a good chat and then I headed home. Stopped to take some cloud pictures. The sunset was pretty but small-ish. I took some photos and then turned to look to something else. Then there was a lot of pink light cast on the nearby buildings and such and the sunset had almost started up again. So here you go, tonight’s unedited photos and in chronological order. My advice, click through and stick it out to the end.

Sunset 4 August 2016

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Note to Self

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

I often get asked what my favorite part of quilting is. That’s hard to answer and I usually say I like all the parts.

That’s a lie.

I don’t particularly like the part I’m doing now which is the trim up the edges and make it a real rectangle part. Fabric, even layered, quilted fabric, wriggles and moves. It moves around. I’ve pushed and pulled it while quilting. I confess. And now I’m asking it to lay perfectly flat and be good. Ha!

Note to self: When you win the big lottery or move into the single huge room studio: the table in the middle that does everything must be bigger than 50″ by 80″ or have a folding top that opens out to that big.

Yup. Bigger table surface would be good. If I’d remembered I could have made a surprise appearance at my guild’s afternoon group and used a few large tables but who knows how long the whole thing would have taken… Oh well. It looks like it will work out now.

In the meantime, I’m hitting the showers while the quilt ‘relaxes’. Yeah that’s my story.

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A Paler Shade of Sunset

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

but with reflections!

sunset 2 August 2016

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