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Do It Yourself, in the Seventies and Eighties
DIY in the Seventies and Eighties: We didn’t have the internet, didn’t have Google, and often didn’t even have electricity or a phone. But we had books. Here are some of the essential books that told me how to do the things I wanted to do or needed to do.
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My Interview on CBC Daybreak North, with Carolina deRyk, Oct 4, 2023
Having just published Knots and Stitches, I’m still a bit shy to talk about it. I was lucky to have Carolina deRyk as host of my first interview. She immediately put me at ease, and asked such interesting questions that I found myself talking quite easily. I’ve tried to match the photos to some of…
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Pass-the-Medallion Quilts, 1982-84
In the early eighties, I showed my friends how to make quilts by adding concentric borders around a central square. Our “pass-the-medallion” quilts were a spin-off from this idea. Someone would start a center square, then pass it on to a friend who would add a border around it. She in turn would pass it…
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Our Early Block Quilts
“Anything Goes Quilts” is how we informally describe our communally made block quilts, because there are no rules or restrictions on what is contributed. So the blocks are sometimes wildly varied, yet the combined result is always beautiful.
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CBC Hill and Dodge Cove
We were caretakers for the radio transmitter site up on the hill above the village of Dodge Cove.
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Mia’s Quilt, 1986
Mia’s quilt was a travelling work-in-progress with friends adding a border, then passing the quilt-top to the next person who wanted to work on it. The result was a spectacular baby quilt for Mia.
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Exceedingly Cautious
I was exceedingly cautious lighting the propane stove, convinced it might blow sky-high and take me with it, and I was just as careful with the hatchet and axe, the flaring Aladdin lantern, the jar of mayonnaise cooling in the creek. I pored over first aid manuals, underlining the sections on food poisoning, lock-jaw,…
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Salt Lakes
You needed a boat to reach the raggle-tag community of free spirits living in the cabins and shacks that tilted and swayed on a rocky, windy shore.
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Rupert Harbour and Beyond
The coastal community in the seventies and early eighties was fluid and transient. Prairie kids and city kids and unrepentant hippies fetched up on the docks of Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia looking for the romance of the sea; seeking mystical enlightenment or big bucks in the herring fisheries
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