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Holiday Miscellany & Poem

laura bruno lilly — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:21:10 +0000

A Pair of Snowy Owls in Chicago on the Lakefront - December 2025©LBLArctic gift of natureSlipped through the polar vortex.Come to visit those who need respite frombrutality and greed. The teapot makes me smile – a reminder of my first Christmas as a newlywed. Hubby spent hours with a carpenter friend in his shop designing […]

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Remember My “Ankara Reward” Tactic?

laura bruno lilly — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:14:38 +0000

Well, it’s come in handy as a transitional tool to ease into taking a break for most of August. After weeks of teaching summer session lessons, following through with essential tasks, the editing/layout of my current Giving Voice series (part three is still in the works), and dealing with heat, heavy air and asthma, I’m […]

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A Roundabout Post for Black History Month

laura bruno lilly — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:01:15 +0000

Note: It would not be prudent for me to share how the past 29 days of our lives have been personally & directly changed within our family and friends since 1/20/2025. Or specific instances of how those changes reach farther than just us. Instead, what follows is an attempt at showing in a less threatening […]

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Goals, ToDos & TryOuts – part 1

laura bruno lilly — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:55:40 +0000

From January’s first attempts at tackling the freshness of the New Year, “While many have detailed their goals in a manner worthy of the New Year, I have been floundering in my own Sea of Lists.” Me to finding a starting point in the beginning stages within a poem, “Let us step outside for a […]

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The Meaning We Make with Our Hands (Poem)

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:33:03 +0000

In reading about the stories we as creatives tell through our (he)art, I came across this phrase from a Quiltfolk blog article. It resonated. I ruminated. I wrote a poem. The Meaning We Make with Our HandsLaura Bruno Lilly © 2024 I tell storiesI paint picturesI touch hearts with sound.Found soundComposed soundand sometimes spoken.Phrases shapedRhythms […]

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Weekend Notes 3/2-3/2024

laura bruno lilly — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 18:46:37 +0000

“Mounted over canvas” As per recent quilt-blogger discussions about how to mount certain fiber art pieces: Mary over at Zippy Quilts posted a callout for suggestions on how best to display a ‘map’ quilt she recently completed. The overriding consensus suggested mounting it over canvas. About two years ago, I experimented with this technique. During […]

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MMXXiii – part two

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 04:30:52 +0000

I finally finished my Cookie Mats the other day. Please allow me to use them as a simple means to illustrate a handful of the many personal revelations/reminders I gleaned during this past year. I started them the day after reading Laura’s post on making her own “Cookie Plate Crumb Catcher”. Like her, I needed […]

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18-inchers or…

laura bruno lilly — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 12:25:42 +0000

…Cradle Quilts When my quilter buddy Roseanne put out the call for quilt donations in her 9/18/23 post, I realized this was one I could do. I am an admittedly sloooow quilter, so whenever a call for quilts is sounded, I pull myself away from the desire to make one UNLESS I see the requirements […]

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I Am A Slow…

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 11:05:00 +0000

…Stitcher. Not as in the current trend of the Slow Stitching Movement but literally. I Am A Slow Stitcher. Skillful, yes. Speedy, not so much. I am a turtle when it comes to making a quilt and/or creating fiber art of any sort. Quickening my pace often results in frustrating mishaps that require more effort […]

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Catching Up part two

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:39:46 +0000

As per Banjo Guy’s suggestion in part one, I spent some time with my Hammered Dulcimer (HD). Once hauled out from it’s resting spot under the skinny folding work table in my music ‘studio’, and set up in the living room, it was ready & waiting for me to play at my pleasure. Our house […]

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