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Integrity. I’ve had some interesting conversations recently about where and how we choose to ‘invest’ our sewing time. The word Integrity comes up a lot - the desire to focus our attention on making quilts that we feel say something individual, that properly feed that creative urge to express something precious, that aren’t ‘fast food’ sewing. Busy lives means inevitable choices about which making is worth our attention. Jobs, busy family lives, studying, we all juggle and our sewing time is precious. My sewing projects have to earn that time and I’m always very conscious to make sure that I’m making something that I personally feel deserves that precious scarce attention that I have left at the end of the day! Creative thought is hard, it requires time, patience and work, like all the best things in life, it’s hard won - it’s not reality TV. Integrity is elusive, individual and ephemeral but we all know when we feel it, or when something doesn’t have it - and we all have our own standards that we hold our making to. I love Quilts with soul. I can’t always define it, but I can always feel it. ❤️ I’m making steady progress on the appliqué of my #themissesbarronquilt working my way around the final outer appliqué round. I’m starting to plan the hand quilting pattern that I’ll mark the top with, hopefully next weekend. I’m itching to start hand quilting this, I’m planning on it being my winter evenings project. I love to have hand quilting to just pick up and sew, it’s the perfect seasonal balance. #handquilting #durhamquilting #northcountryquilt #debmcguirequilts

Yay! My littlest decided she wanted to bake today, ooh the smell, apple and cinnamon 🍎🍂🍁👍

Legacy. At the weekend I read the powerfully thought provoking #whywequilt by @thomasknauer and have been reflecting on the impulse so many of us feel to make. This week I went to a memorial service for a quilter, the mother of a good friend, who quilted in our little Bee right back at the beginning. She was a woman I admired hugely who lived an expansive global life with passion and was a towering polymath of creative expression, fearlessly throwing herself into every new experience with gusto. We all made a #thefarmerswifesamplerquilt together by hand, working on the same blocks week by week maybe 10 or so years ago, this was mine and and hers was on display at the memorial with lots of her other beautiful work. As each person walked past they automatically reached out and touched her quilt’s tactile, scrappy beauty and smiled. When we make a quilt we leave a little piece of ourselves behind to comfort the ones we love. Isn’t that such a powerful reason to make? #imintheguild #imakequilts #quilter #handpiecing #handmadequilt #quiltlegacy #handquilting

Quilts

The Misses Barron Quilt – Part 1.
1982 Modern Quilt
A Pinch of Mothering Quilt – Part 1
The Hearts and Whiteleaf Cross Quilt
The Bertha Mitchell Quilt
Inspired by Ann: Pictures of My World. The 1820s Applique Quilt
The 1718 Quilt
ClamShell Quilt
Bloomfield Coverlet : The Text Of Childhood
The Arts & Crafts Quilt
The Dahlia Quilts
The BFG Old English Frame Quilt
Quilt Blogs
The Mid Century Modern Quilt

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