Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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  • Close observation

    Last week, a Townsend’s warbler showed up at our backyard bird feeder. The picture of this little guy comes from the All About Bird’s website, Cornell University’s ornithology lab, which is an excellent site for birding info. The Townsend’s warbler is a West Coast species, a bird about the size of a chickadee, and it…

  • So not writing

    Real-world making brings some kind of benefit to a writer. Using actual materials with actual tools provides a different creative boost. So I tell myself. Maybe it’s just writing avoidance. Anyway. The barrel chair. When I bought it more than a decade ago, I thought it was a leather chair. But it was something they…

  • 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…