Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: Making it home

Cozy, friendly, orderly, fun, inspiring. That’s what I want when I walk in the door.

  • Focus and intent

    For heck’s sake. What a mess. My play table. I mean, I could call it a work table but everything on it is about play: making art from dried flowers, midway through an embroidery project, editing a manuscript, sending cards to distant friends. It’s like leaving the kitchen a mess after baking bread and then…

  • Tough like a pansy

    After a week of below-freezing nights. After an ice storm that shut down Oregon. After days and days of wind and rain. What’s blooming? Pansies, of course. Delicate. Deceptive. They will always be in my garden.

  • 71,000 stitches, give or take

    When I began hand-stitching this quilt last January, I discovered that sewing spirals took a lot longer than sewing straight lines. As I went along, I realized it would be months, not weeks, of work. Then I learned about temptation bundling, the pairing of enjoyable activities with tedious ones, and began listening to plot-heavy audio…