HeyJaredTales of Cloth
Through hand-stitched quilts, I'm thinking through what brings us joy, connection, and meaning in a beautiful and challenging world.
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Experiments with QAYG! (opens the original)
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Hey, I’m back! I had an amazing time away in Adelaide, teaching at Quilt Encounter last week, and with a day extra in Sydney on either side, the return home wasn’t as jarring as it sometimes can be! <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="h
How do you pack 8 1/2 quilts? (opens the original)
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As this email goes out to you, I’m on a bus to Sydney. I don’t love busses, but this one goes straight from my main street to the Sydney Airport. With my suitcases full of quilts, it’s the easiest way for me to get there without driving myself. On Sunday, I’m flying to Adelaide for Quilt Encounter! I hardly any teach any more. I think I’m good at it, and I have a great time in the class room, but all that energy spent pretending to be confident and extroverted and together makes me completely cr
Why am I apologising? (opens the original)
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Here I am, a few weeks after diving into my vintage spool blocks and I’m still going folks! I wasn’t sure if this quilt would stick, but I’m still running on natural motivation, still stitching in every corner of my life, still don’t know why they’ve stolen my heart so completely. They’re so simple, they’re not especially stunning. There’s almost nothing to them. They’re just fun and easy and sweet.Actually, that’s exactly why. I am completely in the mood and the life stage for something fun and
A Cherished Cherish Quilt Finish (opens the original)
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Oh Friend. This has been a week. And the saddest thing is, it’s a week I was really looking forward to! My husband is away this week. He spends most of his days as a raging extrovert working in our cold laundry/office in a job that doesn’t suit him. And then in between meetings and software glitches and various obstacles, he wanders down, sits on my stitching couch by the window and talks it all over. The job, the cold, the interest rates that keep him stuck. But this week, he has a conference i
Little Spools (opens the original)
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I started writing this newsletter with a confident posture. I wanted to announce that these happy little spools will be my NEXT QUILT PATTERN. But then I felt a bit uncertain, a bit self conscious. I’ve felt this confident about my last three quilt starts, and now they’re all floundering in my WIP cupboard. I’ve wondered if it’s a result of working so hard on my book for a year. Maybe that long lasting focus, that push to get everything done is naturally followed by a season of blur, of not bein
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