Kim Graham

I’m sorry: that wasn’t directed at you, although it would be a good thing if we all refused to allow media to depersonalize hate.

Press reporting ‘a vehicle drove into the crowd celebrating a Phillipino festival in Vancouver.’ It did not. A car was driven intentionally by a human being with a twisted agenda. A person chose to harm a community that has brought love and joy to Canada.

Romans 8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. | New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995) | Download The Bible App Now Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:1 “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
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Making it up as I went along: my new favourite bread creation is Cardamom fruit bread with tea biscuits made from dough left over from shaping the loaves. So good: now if I can just remember what I did. #BakingSky #Bread

It is not. How does that comment have any bearing on the request for help with a quilt pattern?

Logo with flowers a bird and bee. Lettering in white on black BIRDIE & BEEs GARDEN

Hey #quiltsky: appliqué generally isn’t my jam, BUT my son and his partner are opening a new Garden Centre in Nanaimo and their logo looks like it could be an appliqued banner. Am I nuts? Any suggestions for techniques? How much harder would it be to just do the arch shape? (And how to hang it?)

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I know! How easy: bench scraper, chop chop chop and done! They rose so well too with those clean crisp sides.

So good!

Homemade English muffins are so much better, especially sourdough from #KingArthurBaking, but all the rolling and cutting circles then re-rolling is fussy. An aha! moment: who says they have to be round? Roll out. Trim on all sides, cut into rectangles. Finish as usual. So good! #baking #sourdough

‘Sophisticated Teal’ paint colour behind Sampler quilt I. Red, gold, teal on cream; red chair and ottoman with navy/red/gold/teal quilt draped over.

Kaleidoscope style quilt in turquoise on cream background shown against teal wall.

My son and son-in-law painted our bedroom while we were away (what a great Christmas gift!) After years of bright sunny gold, the moody dark teal is taking some getting used to, but it’s beautiful with Sampler of Psalms and Car parts quilts. #quiltsky

My brother is very mildly allergic to walnuts: he always says they make his teeth itch. Weird eye/itchy teeth might = a mild allergic reaction?

Picture if you will EIGHT undiagnosed but obviously neuro-divergent old gits trying to rebuild a safe and functioning stream engine. It was an hilarious, horrifying, half-mad/half-brilliant project over nearly a decade.

Shay locomotive - Wikipedia

For your grandson: my husband was one of the crew that stripped the Shay steam locomotive down to the ground and rebuilt her for the BC Forest museum en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay_lo...

I wouldn’t border it unless you need it for size. It stands by itself beautifully.

2/2 two Christmas prints: one large scale fruit and flower and one a more dense floral. I auditioned dozens of accents for the inner border before hitting on this weird gold. Learned a valuable lesson: sometimes the ugly fabrics are just what a quilt needs to be elevated. #quiltsky

Advent quilt 21: saving the best for last. This is my favourite of all the Christmas quilts: King David’s Crown from The Word in Patchwork. I played with transparency within a controlled scrap palette. 1/2 #quiltsky

Woman wrapped in ‘ugly quilt’ sleeping bag made for those sleeping rough.

2/2 The quilts have no monetary value so can’t be sold or stolen to feed an addiction, but will keep folks warm and dry, especially as we also included a small tarpaulin. For more, check out the ugly quilt project www.thesleepingbagproject.org/help-us/inst... My friend tried it, ‘super cozy!

Advent quilt 20…and now for something completely different. We made two of these ‘ugly quilts’ from shower curtains, donated comforters and flannel sheets. Tied with yarn, edges sewn together with the serger. Given to folks sleeping rough. #quiltsky 1/2

Super simple construction: 6 1/2” print squares alternate with 3 1/2”x 6 1/2” strips. Sew 2” plain squares on the diagonal of the strips’ corners trimming corners and pressing to make star points. Add 3 1/2” plain squares to complete ‘stars’

Christmas quilt 19— Christmas prints scrounged from my friends Dot and Judy’s scrap bins: Judy died in 2011. It’s on the design wall 13 years later! I pulled the pieces from a shoe box, added more from my own and friend Idonna’s scraps and now it’s ready to assemble for 2025. #quiltsky

Close up of table runner

Advent quilt 18 — sometimes simple is better. Quick easy project for a beginner’s class Christmas project. Center square is cut 8 1/2”; strips cut 2 1/2”, cornerstones 2 1/2” square. #quiltsky

Obviously the big liturgical news of the day is that it’s O Sapientia, I’m sure some of you will be interested to know that today the Episcopal Church USA commemorates Dorothy L Sayers ✝️

It’s so hard to walk the line between so dense it stands up by itself and so loose it bubbles! I unfortunately err on the side of quilted to within an inch of its life. Yours looks great!

Quilt in cream, green, floral with red on cream centre squares.

One of the less successful mystery quilts so popular in the 90s. (I no longer remember the pattern source…very forgettable!) But it’s super warm, really heavy in all flannels. Who needs a weighted blanket? Perfect for nesting on a cold winter night, despite its weird sizing (65x85ish) #quiltsky

She was a Harry Potter fan but heading to high school, so the more mature color palette with a nod to the messenger owls in the Potter books hit the mark.

Black grey gold ‘Warm Wishes quilt with owls in block centres

Owl on black background, gold framing strips

Advent quilt #16–once again not strictly a seasonal quilt, but a birthday gift for our Granddaughter Trinity who missed being born on her Dad’s (and Grandpa’s) birthday by only a couple of days. Warm Wishes by McCall’s Quilting is easily my favourite quick and easy pattern. 56”x 70” #quiltsky

Thank you: and yours is beautiful too. What a lovely way to tie disparate blocks together.

You can also frame each block instead of sashing: all those orphans will play nicely together. I usually add 2” frames then trim the framed blocks to size. The quilt below has blocks that vary by as much as 5/8”, but the difference in frame size isn’t noticeable. It’s easier than fudging sashing.

Close up of gold and rust pinwheels and watch fabric ribbon pattern patchwork with greyscale photo of middle aged man and teen girl.

‘Whee face’ quilt outline in gold thread on black.

2/2 (photo 1) Son JD collects watches, so this watch fabric sets the colour palette for the quilt, which also works well with the grey-scale photos. (Photo 2)His dad and I appear in the quilting as ‘whee face’ caricatures—a cartoon our family members always draw in greeting cards. #quiltsky