Lyn

@plontlyn.bsky.social

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Writer * Quilter * Democracy matters. Silence gives consent. Speak up. Speak truth. Resist!

The back of Izzy’s quilt is strips of yellow and pieces of blocks in a row.
Five bison in interesting prints and colors appliquéd onto a golden wheat textured background.
15” blocks pieced from Cherrywood hand dyed fabrics. Foundational blocks are replicas of whole bed-sized quilts in the Geez Bend exhibits. Others are organic variations on same. Center 2nd row is a copy of a whole quilt design by these wonderful women, as is top left.
Pink and white throw quilt.
Close-up of my failed raw edge turned appliqué.
12x12 rendition of moon and sun with a sprinkle of stars. Top left, bright moon, across, waning moon with oncoming dawn, top right, progressing dawn in cloudy skies then full sun then very cloudy then dark descending until eclipse. Don’t ask me why there are stars scattered throughout.
The quilt is alive!
My MaltiPoo with first haircut. He’s a tuxedo boy. White shirt and toes. A goatee.
Pattern from Jen at MQG for the quilt-along. It’s pink large X scraps on white background for my girl who lives for pink and will take this to hospital delivery in August.
Black MaltiPoo 10 weeks old.
Malty-Poodle pup - nine weeks. Joey is black with a white chin and socks.
Scottish Terrier who happily sleeps on his back with four paws in the air and no shame.
Three book finds: Strout’s Tell Me Everything, Allende’s House of Spirits, and a University of CA Press Shore Wildflowers of California, Oregon, and Washington.
EPP blocks made of multi colored hexies.
30x50 improv art quilt in mellow rusty colors - tree trunks with minty green leaves and lots of beads and embroidery.
Shutdown-no nothin but quilting and writing off-line and baking an American Apple Pie to give to someone who is lonely.
Funky quilt made from orphan blocks and other one-offs.?
Cream background with scrappy half-square triangle pattern in autumnal colors.
A hand pieced and quilted bi-centennial row-quilt. A flag and stars and hearts and courthouse steps.
A poem prompted by an Arcadia of arches.
Trystan caught a bubble and he is beyond delighted.
Trystan holding his head up at one week, born 3lbs. at full term, in NICU 75 days, has William’s Syndrome. It’s a genetic deletion that impacts him physically in many unseen ways, but he is now six, doing great, an amazing dancer, plays piano, loves everybody! A joy to know.
Modified log cabin in grey, golden yellow, and red. Diagonal color placement.
An improvisational modern art quilt that breaks rules entitled “Breaking Rules “
Modern abstract quilt, 100% pieced except six little hexies appliquéd on top. I cannot describe this but if you could feel it you’d get the vibe.
Scottish terrier cuddling his fluffy blanket.
A gallon jar terrarium.
A glass cylinder.
Cultured buttermilk carton.