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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

WIP Wednesday. Whee.. flowers! Starting to see the finish line in the distance. #quilting #applique

Pale blue morning glory flowers with yellow centers basted onto a morning glory vine appliqued on a dark rust background.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

WIP Wednesday: laying out the leaves for border number 4. #quiltsky #applique

A wide applique border of green vines and morning glory leaves on rust background fabric. The top edge of the border is cream and pale blue chevrons. Below the leaves are small traditional blocks set on point and a fan block at the corner, all in blues, creams, and pinks.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

WIP Wednesday: border number four in the scabrous stage, and I'm trying to get used to wearing a thimble again. So much faster and easier once accustomed, and no risk of running the very fine needle end into my finger. #quiltsky #applique #quilting

A wide border in rust-colored fabric spread on a table. At the top edge of the border are small traditional blocks set on point in blues, creams, and pinks, along the bottom edge are chevrons in alternating light blue and cream. Down the center of the border, green vines are being appliqued in place. Some pieces are basted in place and some are fully sewn. Because some of the vines will be covered with leaves, the appliquer is skipping the parts that will be hidden, so the vines have gaps. On the table above the border is the fabric used for the vines and a pencil case holding applique notions: needles in a fabric scrap, silk threads in various colors, pens and pencils, small scissors, etc.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This morning at the World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, ID. Beautiful weather lovely breeze in the morning before it got too hot and hazy.

Wildlife researcher and Aplomado falcon at a live bird program.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet. - Lilibelle looking louche in her heated bed:

Comfortably rounded calico lounging in a heated cat bed. She's looking at the camera, paws outstretched in front of her.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

WIP Wednesday. Getting started on the last border, only 349 steps to go! #quiltsky #applique #quilting

Two wide quilt borders with rust colored background fabric laid out one above the other. Both feature morning glory vines and European robins. The top border is complete; on the bottom border cut out shapes of leaves and flowers and a collage of the bird are pinned in place.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Lavender farm in Sequim, WA in July.

Field of lavender in bloom. The plants are rounded mounds covered in small purple flowers, in neat rows stretching away from the viewer. The woods surrounding the field make a dark green frame.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Brief sunlight on the trail. (Moments in Time interpretive trail on the shore of Lake Crescent in Olympic NP.)

A beam of sunlight illuminates the thick mosses and ferns that carpet a fallen log in Olympic National Park.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

WIP progress pic, Friday 7/10/26. I really like dark backgrounds, but you gotta use light colors so the applique shows well, and that means you have to line them or back them so the colors stay true and the seams don't show, and ugh, just so much extra work! #quiltsky #applique

Wide applique border strip. The background is dark rust; on the left side are small traditional blocks in blues, pink, and cream, along the right edge are cream and blue chevrons. Morning glory vines with pale blue flowers fill the center strip and in the middle of those is a white blob shaped like a bird or a ghost basted in place. This is the lining for a fancy applique bird that will be sewn in place over the blob, and that will keep the dark background from showing under the bird.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Today's whale watching tour was terrific and the captain explained that they're trying to get this flag accepted like the divers' flag, to let boaters know to use extra caution for the whales in the area. #port_townsend #whale_watching

A white flag showing a whale fluke in black surrounded by red and yellow snaps in the wind over the waters of the sound where an orca is swimming.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

WIP Wednesday. I swear this will look refined and elegant like the collage next to it when it's done, but right now this applique is definitely a 100% hot mess birb.

Western bluebird fabric collage resting on an unlit lightbox next to a partially finished applique version. With extra seam allowance all around, the applique is... bulgy, and rather odd looking. Various sewing tools are scattered around the two pieces: needles, a box of pins, scissors, and several spools of thread.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Offhand, I think this is mine: milk glass from my grandmother's collection, still being used as a sugar bowl.

Milk glass sugar bowl, roughly 2.5" tall by 4" across. It's heavy white glass, decorated with embossed mulberries and mulberry leaves, with a scalloped top edge and a small scalloped foot. It's sitting on the counter next to the coffee pot, filled with sweetener packets.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

WIP Wednesday, leaves redux. Nice to have good morning light! #quiltsky #applique #quilting

Close-up of a wide rust border strip with cream and blue chevrons at the bottom edge and a traditional log cabin block in blues and creams at the top. In the center of the strip is an appliqued morning glory vine with some leaves sewn in place. One leaf in the center is basted with small stitches and partially turned under and sewn along the basting line.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

WIP Wednesday, border number 3 started! We're in a VRBO this week, so nice to have the extra room to lay things out. #quiltsky #applique #quilting

Two wide rust colored borders laid back to back. One is a finished morning glory vine, the other is green bias tape and paper flower and leaf cutouts pinned in place.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

WIP tuesday: mocking up the bluebirds for the next two borders so I don't have to work all this out when actually sewing them. Snippets everywhere! #quiltsky #applique #quilting

Piled fabrics in shades of blue on a small table. In the foreground are two inked drawings of female mountain bluebirds on newsprint paper with fabric pieces glued on like filling in a coloring page. On a loose pile of fabric is a completed fabric collage of a male bluebird, and in the background an open book showing the original mountain bluebird patterns. Tiny scraps of blue fabrics are scattered over the table.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I learned today that Ellie Sienkiewicz, who single-handedly revived Baltimore Applique starting with "Spoken Without a Word" in 1983, has passed away on May 14th. She was one of the most gracious people I ever met, genuinely kind and caring and enormously talented.

Applique of eastern bluebird perched among pink peony blossoms.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Amusement for appliquers - can I get 6 more leaves? I've never forgotten a "use every scrap" quilter ranting about applique: "They just cut pieces every which way! Just right out of the middle!" It makes me laugh every time I take out a piece of "swiss cheese" fabric. #quilting #applique #quiltsky

A piece of green fabric with shapes cut out so it looks like swiss cheese. It's laid out on a white paper towel, and that is set on a partially completed applique border of vines and leaves on a rust background.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

WIP Wednesday: so glad to be starting on border 2 of 4

Border with rust background: on the outer edge are shevrons in cream and pale blue, on the inner edge are larger traditional pieced blocks in blue, cream, yellow and pink. On the background between them is a entwined vine in light green with two leaves basted in place.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Took me embarrassingly long to realize that was because I'd picked up the piece from the finished pile, not the TBD pile. Right. No cough syrup on drive days, that's a rule.

Open clamshell pencil case holding two stacks of applique flowers on newsprint backing, spools of thread, a box of pins, and a small bowl with thread scraps.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

WIP Wednesday. Ugh! 11 more to go. At this point I'm setting a timer just to do some every day. (penny for scale) #quiltsky #quilting #applique

Applique morning glory flowers with blue petals and white trumpets, sewn on newsprint substrate. There is a stack of unfinished flowers on the left and two different flowers with the trumpet sewn to the petals to the right. On the rightmost flower paper is a penny that is about 1.5 times larger than the stitched part of the trumpet.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

After a long December break, finally picking back up on my longstanding applique project. 20-ish flowers to finish and then I can start the next step. #quiltsky #applique #quilting

Small pieces of newsprint paper holding applique morning glory flowers arranged in a clock-face on a light box. At the top is a couple of drawn flowers, then clockwise from there, two stacks of flowers with light blue fabric petals, then two stacks of flower with the white trumpets added, then finally two stacks with a small green sepal finishing the flowers.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Let there be peace on earth. Strasbourg Cathedral, December 2025.

Virgin Mary and Jesus statue in Strasbourg Cathedral, ringed with four tiers of lit votive candles in red, blue, and white holders.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal (where I went on my winter vacation). Beautiful and most notable to me full of intricate textures.

A castle in shades of gold and red perches atop dull grey battlements. White crenellations and moorish arches adorn the upper walls.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Thanks to @foxfeather.bsky.social for just the BEST patch to personalize my new bag. Carefully machine sewing it in place worked great! #sewing

Orange nylon bag with an art-deco wolf's head patch in rusty browns and blues sewn offset on the flap.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Things that make me happy today: my pin collection, all pins in place. We don't get decorations out when we're traveling fast but we're here for 3 more days.

Enamel pins from Disney, Foxloft Studios and other sources displayed on a fabric banner with diagonal strips in deep blue, gold, red, green, and brown. The banner is hung under a wooden arch, above a fake stone fireplace.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Arcs are done. Off to the next ziplock.

Two paper pieced arcs with spikes of pale yellow, blue, and lavender on a background of dark purple, gold and blue poinsettias, resting on a purple cutting mat.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

WIP (not quite) Wednesday. Chugging along, finally time to work on the FPP project. We're moving fast down to FL and applique is easier for short stays, but at our current location for 5 days so there's time to break out the sewing machine. #quiltsky #quilting #foundationpaperpiecing #FPP

Foundation paper piecing half circle of spikes in pale yellow and blue; the background fabric is dark purple/blue/gold and black. The piece is half finished, laying on a medium purple cutting mat with yellow markings. A rotary cutter, rulers, an awl, and the remaining pieces to be added surround the work.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I had one like that - she never was that interested in finished quilts - piles of fabric were her jam.

Gray cat sitting half on a quilt top, half on two rows of folded fabric pieces laid out to choose colors.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

WIP Wednesday: "assembly line" applique.

Newsprint pattern pieces stacked on a lightbox with sewing supplies. On the left side are stacks of folded pale blue fabrics. On the right side are partially finished appliqued morning glory flowers sewn on the pattern squares.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

WIP Wednesday: new favorite quilt tool, a water brush. Filled with plain water, use to trace sewing lines before removing papers. Makes foundation paper easier to tear along the lines and leaves fewer leftover bits to pick out with tweezers. #quiltsky #FPP

Foundation paper piecing unit laid paper side up on a cutting mat. Half the paper has been removed, revealing spikes of black and blue fabric alternating on a gold background. A fine-tipped water brush and a pair of narrow nosed tweezers are laid on the paper side of the piece, with a pair of magnifying glasses in the background.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

WIP Wednesday: working out flower and leaf placement for the first of 4 borders. Almost done with this one! (and testing the border with the center, very glad I really like them together.) #quiltsky #applique

Bottom edge of applique quilt. The border has cream and blue chevrons, then twining morning glory vines with pale blue and white flowers, with small traditional pieced blocks above that. The background is a dark rust color. The center of the border is a larger triangle shape and is set with flowers in full bloom and an english robin perched on the vines. In the center the flowers are paper pieces laid in place. Below the quilt on the working surface are two spare leaves cut from green fabrics.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Welp, I'm very happy with how this works by itself, now to see how it works with the rest of the piece. *crosses fingers* (English robin test collage for needleturn applique project.) #quiltsky #applique

fabric collage of an english robin set on a dark rust background.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

WIP Wednesday - 3 of 4 D2L sections for Wild Goose Island from Quiltworx. I'm happy with the current plan of swapping between WGI and Morning Glories when we move; it's working to apply a little artificial pressure to get stuff done.

3 paper pieced "rising sun"(spikes coming out from a half-circle) arcs laid on a white towel on a counter, with an iron next to them. The circle is ivory patterned in blues and golds, the spikes are alternating black and dark blue tone on tone fabrics, and the background is gold patterned fabric.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

No cheating, post the last pic of your pet.

A heated cat bed sitting on a brown couch. Sunlight through the window behind the couch illuminates a single white-furred cat leg stuck out over the edge of the bed, pink toe beans on full display.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

WIP Wednesday: Really quite happy with how the border design is turning out so far - once this section is done it will serve as a model for the other 7 sections and I can start working on the center of this border strip. #quiltsky #applique #quilting

Wide border strip for a quilt. Against a rust backing, the outer edge of the border is pale blue and cream chevrons, then a morning glory vine in shades of green with blue and cream flowers and buds, then a row of small traditional blocks set on point, in blues, creams, pale golds and pinks. A small piece of paper marked "C" is basted to the top of the strip. The edges are unfinished and fraying slightly.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

WIP... Thursday. Modifying flower design to fit the media. A: white too backgrounded, B: white too lumpy, C: too hard to sew and omg sea monster, D: I think this is it! #quilting #applique #quiltsky

Appliqued morning glory flowers laid out in a row on a light board. The first piece is a drawing of a partially open flower from the side, with ribs coming up from the funnel of the flower onto the petals. Four applique flowers with blue petals and a white funnel labeled A through D follow. The last piece is another, simpler drawing of a morning glory flower; the ribs have been shortened to stubby points and the number of seams on the petals have been reduced.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hogging the fabrics... (Mercedes, 2012)

A grey cat lies partly on an appliqued quilt panel and partly on a set of folded fabrics laid underneath the quilt. Her head is up and she's looking at the camera as if wondering why she is being paparazzied, since all of the fabric is clearly hers. Mercedes, 2012.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

WIP Wednesday, auditioning fabric for the tricky bits of Wild Goose Island. Scraps everywhere. #quilting #quiltsky #foundationpiecing

Roughly-cut diamond shapes and spikes of fabric in dark to light blues, light gold, ivory, pale yellow, and black, placed on a background of dark gold shading to brown. The spikes are in a row on a dark blue feather-patterned fabric; the diamonds are in a pyramid shape making a star point on the dark gold fabric.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

WIP Wednesday. Serendipity is realizing you need a fair bit of newsprint for your current unit applique project, in the middle of cutting papers for your next paper-piecing project.

A small table with a purple quilting cutting mat on it. On the mat clockwise from top left are an instruction booklet open to a page of fancy paper piecing, paper scissors on top of some ziplock bags, a folder pocket stuffed with newsprint scraps, and a stack of labeled ziplock bags with folded paper piecing templates inside.

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Catlinye Maker @catlinyemaker.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I love visiting the western mountain parks in early summer - the waterfalls are always spectacular.

Falls Creek waterfall on Steven Canyon road in Mt Rainier National Park. Sunlight gilds the spray at the top of a narrow waterfall that splits into two white cascades about halfway down its plunge into a shadowed gorge. Moss covers the rocks on either side of the falls, and small trees are growing around it. Sunlight shines through the green leaves.

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