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		<title>new (OLD) work: christmas tree</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyric Kinard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been incredibly unproductive in the studio. I&#8217;ve made up for it by making friends! This is one of my favorite UFO stories ever. Several years ago my neighborhood quilt bee met yesterday for our Christmas Brunch. One year earlier that they let me crash their Christmas party as a wannabe member of the group. This time I hosted it. Nothing like having a party to motivate me to clean the house! We chatted, showed off finished works, ate delicious food, and exchanged (and swiped each others&#8217;) gifts. Something Kathy said struck a chord with me. She was showing off an absolutely beautiful pieced red and white top that she had intended to finish in time for Christmas. Then she said something to the effect of &#8220;I realized I didn&#8217;t HAVE to finish it so I didn&#8217;t.&#8221; It sparked an idea. I had had this quilt, unfinished, in my attic closet for almost 20 YEARS. Yup. One of the first quilts I made. It was quilted and only lacked binding. I never loved it enough to bind it. I thought. -&#8220;I DON&#8217;T have to finish it. So I won&#8217;t.&#8221; I brought it down and said whoever wanted it could [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tutorial: Useful Knot and Mini Beaded Ornament</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyric Kinard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[    A little beading tutorial for you: This short little video will clarify how to make the useful little know that keeps all those beads from flying off your fabric. And I show it to you with a little felt ball ornament &#8211; a fun extra. &#160; You might also enjoy my online course: open access course – get all lessons immediately $29.99 information and registration here Have fun! And here is the rundown of the ARTSPARK tutorials:   Jane LaFazio  Sketch &#38; Stitch Gift Bags   Lyric Kinard Beaded Ornament   Tracie Lyn Huskamp Christmas Cardinal Ornament  Traci Bunkers Moldable Foam Stamps    Melanie Testa Zipper Tute Mania   Judy Coates Perez Folk Art Inspired Ornament    Kelli Nina Perkins Whimsical Spool Garland  Lisa Engelbrecht Experimental Lettering Jill Berry Geo Papers and Projects Gloria Hansen  Easy Resizing of a Digital Image  Diana Trout Furoshiko  ]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Solo Show in the Making: research</title>
		<link>https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2019/01/a-solo-show-in-the-making-research-is-fun/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyric Kinard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over Christmas when my grown daughter was visiting we looked around for something to do and found Historic Yates Mill County Park. In all the years we&#8217;ve lived here in NC we had yet to visit so off we went. The restored site houses a functioning grain mill, in place for over 200 years. And lots of mill stones. And some pretty places to take pictures of teenagers who really don&#8217;t want to have their pictures taken. I&#8217;m going to have to go again in March when they open the gate and demonstrate how the mill works. Sound recordings might happen. We&#8217;ll see.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyric Kinard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2019 12:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello Friends. I hope you&#8217;ve had the kind of Holiday over the past few weeks that makes you happy. Please forgive my indulgence but this is going to be just a lot of family photos. Sometimes I don&#8217;t think anyone out there really reads what is going on here which is fine. Sometimes I look at this space as my own online journal keeping. I&#8217;ll get back to the art stuff very soon. Promise. I&#8217;ve got a whole series of posts already written and scheduled for this month. We didn&#8217;t go anywhere big but my two grown daughters and their husbands came home. It was the first time in several years we&#8217;ve all been here. And there were shenanigans. Lots of them. Here we see the infamous Montgomery hips being open while the non-geneticaly weird Montgomery&#8217;s-at-heart people think &#8220;ouch.&#8221; The whole holiday season was amazing. My best friend got married after many rough years. We mostly raised our oldest kids together so I was as happy to see these kids again as I was my own! This would be a recreation of many an earlier New Year&#8217;s memory. Except we didn&#8217;t turn all the clocks back by two hours so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve been up to&#8230;.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyric Kinard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s long past Christmas and the world has moved on, but I  thought I&#8217;d share a few links anyway. In 2015 I got a little carried away with origami stars&#8230; something that I&#8217;ve been toying with for a number of years. Stars symbolize several things to me&#8230; light in the darkness, wishes and hopes, and guidance toward goals.When it is very dark outside I love to look up and see that the sky is still there. Sometimes I can see a familiar constellation &#8211; sometimes it is just a twinkling smattering of light. When I can see the stars I can see beauty. Here is a link to the blog post showing this star (my fall time favorite) in process along with a link to the video tutorial I followed. Children wish on stars. (Anyone else singing like Jiminy Cricket here?) I have wishes and hopes and dreams. I choose to hope, to believe in good triumphing over evil. Perhaps it&#8217;s childish but it helps me through the days. Here is a video tutorial in case you want to make this 8 part Robin Star. Stars symbolize guidance and hopelessly out-of-reach goals that get you to an amazing place anyway. You [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>christmas simplified</title>
		<link>https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2015/12/7799/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyric Kinard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me Matt. 25:40 It&#8217;s that time of the year when America seems to do an odd thing. We develop a split personality. We fuss and stress and go way overboard spending money on truly unnecessary gifts that often go unappreciated. We give more to charities than at other times of the year, we smile, we are willing to be patient and kind to perfect strangers. Which way do you want to be? December has become my favorite time of year because we have worked very hard to make Christmas meaningful. We deliberately cut out everything that was stressful and didn&#8217;t bring our family together. We try each year to do as many of the things we find wonderful as we have energy for-  and then let the rest slide right on by without any feelings of guilt. This is what we do to Christmas meaningful. I can imagine that the list would be different for every family. MUSIC &#8211; Several of us play together in a Messiah Orchestra &#8211; that&#8217;s one of my favorites. There are Christmas Parades where we cheer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>around the world blog hop: again :-)</title>
		<link>https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2014/12/around-the-world-blog-hop-again/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyric Kinard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Peeks into Lyric Montgomery Kinard's disaster of a studio and currently overwhelmed mind.]]></description>
		
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		<title>tis the season to shop&#8230;. well. maybe.</title>
		<link>https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2014/12/tis-the-season-to-shop-well-maybe/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyric Kinard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I must preface this post by being completely upfront. I don&#8217;t really like every day shopping. During the Christmas season I particularly don&#8217;t like it. Our family tries our level best to focus on service and kindness during this month. HERE is a link to past posts about our Christmas philosophy. I do love giving gifts but kind of like them to be simple and unexpected rather than part of the over-consumptive culture. This lovely pin was a gift from a student &#8211; I keep it on next to my computer to remind me of one of the reasons I love to teach. (Because I love my students!) Buying toys that are made in China under horrible working conditions (see this article) that the kids will quickly loose interest in&#8230; nope.  Handmade would be best but when I&#8217;m honest with myself I know I don&#8217;t have the time. I am determined to get this one quilt done though. Remember all those blue scraps you sent me waaaay back when? I pieced some blocks up for The Quilt Show segment I filmed then got them put together &#8211; mostly into a bed quilt. Sort of. I got tired of piecing so 3/4 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>new work: haiku</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyric Kinard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 12:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have had the great good pleasure over the past several years of being juried into the D@8 special exhibits curated by the talented and beautiful Jamie Fingal and Leslie Tucker Jennison. This year&#8217;s exhibit, which will premier at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX at the end of October is titled: REFLECTIONS. Lovely, don&#8217;t you think? Open enough that it can be interpreted in many different ways. The theme is announced a year in advance of the deadline so there is plenty of time to think about ideas. I&#8217;m usually pushing things up to the very last minute but this year I actually had an idea early on. Over Christmas my oldest daughters were home and consented to a just-for-fun photo session in my studio. As soon as I saw this picture of Haven I knew it would be perfect for the theme. I&#8217;m pretty sure I have a DaVinci sketch of a maiden in a similar pose. Very REFLECTIVE don&#8217;t you think? Digital processing is often an important part of my process, and this time I played with the image and came up with numerous variations and possibilities. My two favorite options were opposites in a way. One deepened [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Merry Christmas (and Giveaway winners)</title>
		<link>https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2013/12/merry-christmas-and-giveaway-winners/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lyric Kinard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is what I&#8217;ve been up to the past week.  My girls are home from college and its a delight to see them. I have truly missed them. This is an older picture. My middle boy is now taller than I am.  Christmas at our house involves lots of music, a little bit more good food than usual, and almost no shopping at all so it&#8217;s a joyful time. I&#8217;m the stingiest/meanest mother in the world and the kids are only allowed to ask for one modest gift. They get exactly what they ask for so there are no surprises. Poor things. They have never known any different and so far there haven&#8217;t been any complaints. We do service throughout the month so they see that Christmas is about giving and helping and making the world a better place. If you have a moment click this link and watch my favorite video about bringing the spirit of Christ into Christmas. It&#8217;s a sweet, and rather unusual christmas pageant. So Merry Christmas to you and yours! No matter what your belief, I think we all share a wish for  love and peace and a better world. Mother Theresa said &#8220;Let no one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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