Tall Tales from Kansas

My name is Carol. I live in Kansas. I write about stuff that happens to me as I walk through the world. Most of it is true.

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Category: making stuff

  • all final decisions to be negotiated with myself

    Above is my favorite block (so far) from this year’s Block Studies class with Tara Faughnan. I love the colors and how they all are coming together. At this point, with 12 blocks made, it seems like I might be headed for a full-on big size quilt. Or maybe not. The picture above is my…

  • knitting for when you are listening to a book by a cozy fire

    The “21 color slouch” hat has been completed. Here I am in the mirror that Alice retrieved from some barn, on some old homestead near Russell Kansas in the early 1980’s, and thought we needed in our house. She was right, of course. What I wouldn’t give to sit down and have a conversation with…

  • hard does not take the fun out of it for me

    Season #3 of the Block Studies Collective with Tara Faughnan has begun. Above is the palette for October. Don’t you just want to dive into it and roll around in all the color? Then maybe run your hands over the fabric to see which shades tell you they want to play together? We started with…