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LindaSchiffer

Columbia, Maryland

Jill of many skills from Eastern KY via TX and WI; owner of Seminole Sampler quilt shop (now closed).

Interests: quilt making (especially art quilts), making altered books, science fiction (lifelong reader; movies and tv), gaming (as in role playing, etc), human prehistory and other archaeology

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These are gladiolus flowers (also called Sword Lilies). My Mom loved them - they come in many colors and create a fairly long-lasting bloom stem. I haven't seen many growing here in MD but they are pretty common in southern... Continue reading

Posted Aug 19, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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More Construction

August is my personal marker for the flowering of many so-called weeds in the verges of highways and fields. The one above, Goldenrod, is a widely distributed late summer flowering plant and the state flower of Kentucky (probably among others).... Continue reading

Posted Aug 4, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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(With thanks to my friend Leeanna for the funny!) I spent three days last week and at least two more planned in coming weeks on quilt shop hop road trips. Fun! Barbara, Patty and I decided to try to visit... Continue reading

Posted Jul 30, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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This is the deep dish pizza that my son, Hugh, and I made for dinner on Thursday night (the 4th of July). Happy tummies! :) We did not go to the fireworks - have not for many years. Used to... Continue reading

Posted Jul 6, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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This is White Dutch Clover blooming. It's a common plant that grows wild nearly everywhere on the continent and is my personal signal of 'Summer' arrived. If you click on the photo you can go read about the benefits of... Continue reading

Posted Jun 30, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Yet More Catching Up

We have arrived in summer with very hot weather this week - upper 90s and humid. Pretty general Maryland summer except that we had what I think was a fairly cool spring with lots of rain so no one is... Continue reading

Posted Jun 24, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Today was a happy, inspiring time! It was the monthly meeting of the Repro Club at Springwater Designs quilt shop (my LQS). The geese above were two different families with goslings strolling around the fields beyond the building where Springwater... Continue reading

Posted May 16, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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This was a pleasant week in the fairly-uneventful life of me. :) The azaleas and rhododendrons are still blooming. The pretty deep pink one above was flourishing in the beds outside my doctor's office on Thursday afternoon (more in a... Continue reading

Posted May 10, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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When I went off to search on 'daily life' I had no idea what a rabbit hole I'd fall into! There were any number of images I could have chosen (statistics in daily life, science or chemistry in daily life,... Continue reading

Posted May 5, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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MidWeek Dithering

When I did a 'midweek' search on images online I found this one - a vintage Sami (reindeer herder) image of father and daughter (?). Do you have certain cultures that you are drawn toward? Maybe due to your family... Continue reading

Posted May 1, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Blooming in Place

The first spring that we lived in this house (in 1987) there were about a dozen azalea bushes blooming in our front yard. Over the following summer and fall, all but one of those bushes died. I was told this... Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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We are having a run of glorious weather here in Maryland this week. On Earth Day I decided to enjoy the outdoors by taking my brother for a walk in Wilde Lake Park here in Columbia. Almost the first sight... Continue reading

Posted Apr 23, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Suddenly the dogwood trees are lighting up the woods with their ethereal, floating white blossoms this week. So lovely! My next door neighbor has a pink dogwood blooming in her yard, too. I love spring! :) I have managed to... Continue reading

Posted Apr 19, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Today I saw the first redbud tree in bloom for this year (well, _my_ year anyway:). My memory says they bloom in mid-May along with the dogwoods. This year everything seems to be blooming at the same time, though. Haven't... Continue reading

Posted Apr 14, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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All the Flowers

Forsythia Japanese Cherry Pear (probably Bradford) Some kind of Winter Berry Nandina berry? Everything is blooming at once here in Columbia! I have seen but been unable to photograph other flowering trees - Star Magnolia, Chinese Cherry (probably Kwan-Yin), Plum... Continue reading

Posted Mar 19, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Early, Sunny Spring

Today I saw my first blooming Forsythia bushes for this spring. Lovely, bright yellow and happy. The plum trees are flowering now, too. Bright pink and cloud-like. In our side yard, the Vinca minor is also shining bright blue and... Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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My daffodils are in full bloom now. Their radiant yellow faces are bowed down with the weight of the days of rain we are having. I'm sure the grass and trees are delighted but the flowers look sad. :) I... Continue reading

Posted Mar 9, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Catching Up Yet Again

Today was lovely - sunny and warm-ish. I ate my lunch sitting by the dock on Lake Elkhorn, listening to the birds sing spring songs. :) If you look really carefully up the right bank of Elkhorn Creek above you... Continue reading

Posted Feb 29, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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I woke up late this morning as it was unusually dark in my bedroom - very overcast though mild temperatures today. Rain in the forecast from tomorrow until Tuesday or Wednesday. In this region, exactly when and where the rain... Continue reading

Posted Feb 10, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Project Quilting Challenge

The Project Quilting challenge this week is 'inside out.' I decided to share my zipper pocket variation with the bound seam allowances on the outside of the pouch when completed. I like the way the binding makes little 'feet' for... Continue reading

Posted Feb 8, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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More Sunny Days!

On Monday (5 Feb) was the regularly scheduled meeting of Mimi Dietrich's Grad Class at Bears Paw quilt shop in Towson, MD. I am so grateful to be able to participate with this group of women! Most of them are... Continue reading

Posted Feb 7, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Sunshine in Winter

This has been a pretty nice weekend for winter - sunny, blue skies, mild temps (mid 40s for highs). I managed to go out both days, briefly. Yesterday my son and I made a new recipe for white chicken chili... Continue reading

Posted Feb 4, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Today would have been my Grandmother's 120th birthday. :) I was very close to her in my childhood - I am the oldest member of my generation (on both sides of my family) and benefitted a LOT from the fact... Continue reading

Posted Jan 31, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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The sky looks like this a lot here in Maryland although it often does not precipitate. shrug. The challenge this week on Project Quilting is 'sky' and I immediately thought about my most-disliked heavenly cover/color (GRAY). This afternoon I decided... Continue reading

Posted Jan 25, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Snow and Sewing

One of the decisions I made for the new year was that my son and I would cook more often. He got adventurous recently and we tackled Chinese style chicken stir fry. It was YUMMY! We all enjoyed it quite... Continue reading

Posted Jan 20, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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