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Upheavals and Buckles

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.― Benjamin Disraeli, British politician and author Life has turned upside-down and in circles for the past couple of weeks, and I'm taking a moment now to steady myself and find my feet before the ground shifts again. We've had to deal with family emergencies, long illnesses, and transatlantic travel, so my mind has not quite been in the right space to sit down and write. And yet, I've been yearning to share my latest finished project that I am ever so proud of. It's another illustrated mini quilt made from another piece of my own hand-dyed fabric. If you'd asked me ten years ago if I'd ever be making quilts, let alone illustrated ones, and never mind ones made from my own hand-dyed stash, I would have asked you what planet you came from. And yet, here we are... This piece is a result of rust dyeing, where you literally use rusty bits of metal to create the patterns on the cloth. I did this at a workshop last ye

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