tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83839206848689923342024-03-19T01:47:46.975-07:00The Stitchin' PostMerrilee Rogotzkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650860231575694028noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383920684868992334.post-78606636944600548372015-01-23T13:20:00.000-08:002015-01-23T13:20:17.042-08:00Moda's Piece and Comfort Challenge<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the beginning of a new year, many quilters have made a goal to make a charity quilt or two in 2015. One of the groups we may remember with our charity quilts is our country's military families. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Moda has organized a challenge for 2015 calling "Piece and Comfort" to recognize and honor the sacrifices that are made by our country's military families. Moda would like quilters to create a quilt to honor a military family in their circle of friends, community, or nation. <br /><br />CHALLENGE RULES: The challenge runs through March 31, 2015. Ninety percent of the quilt must be made with Moda fabrics. Fifty percent of the Moda fabrics must come from one or both of the Moda fabric lines <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/category/fabrics/by-collection/red-white-free-by-moda/"><i>Red, White & Free by Sandy Gervais</i></a> or <i>Because of the Brave by Moda</i>. Quilts must be 54 inches x 65 inches or larger. Quilt remains the property of the maker unless they choose to donate the quilt to a military family. Entry forms are available <a href="http://blog.modafabrics.com/challenge-customer-form/">here</a>. Please read the complete challenge rules available <a href="http://www.unitednotions.com/piece-and-comfort_challenge-info.pdf">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stitchin' It Up Quilt Shop is honored to be participating in this challenge. You can s</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">end a photo of your completed quilt to us at <a href="mailto:merrilee@stitchinitupquiltshop.com" target="_blank">merrilee@stitchinitupquiltshop.com</a> with your name, the quilter's name, your city, size of the quilt, and contact information by March 31, 2015. We will post all of the quilt entries we receive on this blog </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">on April 6, 2015, and will allow our blog followers to vote for their favorite until April 18. The quilt with the most votes will win a Viewer's Choice Award and prize from Moda and will then be entered into Moda's Piece and Comfort online quilt show with the national winner announced May 8, 2015. Prize awards for the Moda online show will be given.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Merrilee</span>Merrilee Rogotzkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650860231575694028noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383920684868992334.post-59057000135275735972014-09-15T17:36:00.000-07:002014-09-15T17:36:29.385-07:00Customer Spotlight - Kristen<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today I would like to spotlight a beautiful quilt made by one of our customers, Kristen. Kristen used the pattern "Metro Lattice" by Sew Kind of Wonderful. This pattern uses the Quick Curve Ruler. Kristen used the aquas, purples, and blues from our <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/category/fabrics/by-collection/hubba-hubba-by-moda/" target="_blank">Hubba Hubba collection by Moda</a>. Check out Kristen's blog, Meadowbrook, where she documents her experiences making this quilt starting <a href="http://meadowbrook-kristen.blogspot.com/2014/06/i-cant-wait-to-get-started.html" target="_blank">here</a> and continuing up until she revealed her final quilt <a href="http://meadowbrook-kristen.blogspot.com/2014/09/metro-lattice-is-finished.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fabrics used from <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/" target="_blank">Stitchin' It Up Quilt Shop</a>: <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/category/fabrics/by-collection/hubba-hubba-by-moda/" target="_blank">Hubba Hubba Collection by Moda</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pattern used: <a href="http://sewkindofwonderful.bigcartel.com/category/quilt-patterns" target="_blank">Metro Lattice by Sew Kind of Wonderful</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kristen's Blog: <a href="http://meadowbrook-kristen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Meadowbrook</a></span><br />
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Merrilee Rogotzkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650860231575694028noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383920684868992334.post-41635794902565716142014-08-13T12:48:00.000-07:002014-08-13T12:48:58.812-07:00Block of the Month Catch Up Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Merrilee Rogotzkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650860231575694028noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383920684868992334.post-55130675003781797422014-06-23T18:11:00.001-07:002014-06-23T18:11:06.563-07:00June Block of the Month - Skates<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is time to show my June Block of the Month for the winter-themed quilt designed by <a href="http://quiltdoodledesigns.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Cindy at Quilt Doodle Designs</a>. This month her block is called "Northern Hockey Skates." Even though I am from Minnesota, I am not a real big hockey fan, so I "softened" my hockey skates and changed them to white. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My local quilt guild offered a challenge last fall for its members to complete a UFO project and bring the completed quilt back to our meeting in May. I have finished my UFO and am looking forward to bringing it to our club meeting on Monday night.</span><br />
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Merrilee Rogotzkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650860231575694028noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383920684868992334.post-24427926801209399372014-05-12T06:04:00.000-07:002014-05-16T17:47:35.238-07:00Giveaway Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My giveaway is a $25 gift certificate to <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/" target="_blank">Stitchin' It Up Quilt Shop</a> which you can use to purchase an apron kit or anything else available in the shop. This giveaway is open internationally. Winner will be picked at random from the comments left and notified by e-mail. Please be sure to leave me a way in your comments to contact you if you are a no-reply blogger. Giveaway will be open until Friday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. CST. </span></div>
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Merrilee Rogotzkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650860231575694028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383920684868992334.post-18348001755239966272014-04-23T15:23:00.000-07:002014-04-23T15:23:35.445-07:00Purrr-fect Finish<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Henry Glass & Co. recently came out with a <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/category/fabrics/by-collection/kitty-kat-kapers-by-henry-glass/" target="_blank">fabric line called "Kitty Kat Kapers.</a>" It is a darling line with cute kittens, paw prints, dots, small herring bone prints, and plaids. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have kits for this quilt available in my <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/" target="_blank">online quilt shop</a>. Kits are available in <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/product/quilt-kit-throw-size-shortcake-hubba-hubba-collection/" target="_blank">Throw size</a>, <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/product/quilt-kit-twin-size-shortcake-hubba-hubba-collection/" target="_blank">Twin Size</a>, and <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/product/quilt-kit-queen-size-shortcut-hubba-hubba-collection/" target="_blank">Queen size</a>. I also have Hubba Hubba <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/product/hubba-hubba-jelly-roll/" target="_blank">jelly rolls</a> and <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/category/fabrics/by-collection/hubba-hubba-by-moda/" target="_blank">yardage</a> available. I hope you will stop over at the online shop and check them out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Amazingly, this entire quilt is made from two jelly rolls (one of those jelly rolls being prints and the other a solid) and an additional 1/2 yard. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pattern for this quilt is a </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">free Moda Bake Shop pattern called "Sweet Menagerie" and can be found</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="http://www.modabakeshop.com/2009/10/sweet-menagerie-nine-patch-quilt.html#more" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The finished size of the quilt as written is approximately 66 x 90. I was able to stretch my jelly rolls even further and squeak out several more blocks to make a quilt that measures approximately 80 x 90. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232;">During the month of February am giving away one $25 gift certificate to my <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/" style="color: #00a976; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">quilt shop</a> each Friday. To enter:</span><br style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;" /><br style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;" /><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232;">1. Leave me a comment telling me a favorite jelly roll pattern you have tried or would like to try. </span><br style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;" /><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;"></span><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232;">2. For a second chance at the giveaway, follow my blog (if you aren't already a follower) and leave me a comment telling me how you are following (i.e. Bloglovin', e-mail, Google Friend Connect, etc.). There are places along the left side of my blog to enter your information to become a follower. </span><br style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;" /><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;"></span><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232;">Please be sure to leave me a way in your comments to contact you if you are a no-reply blogger. I will contact the final week's winner on Saturday, March 1. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I loved this quilt at first sight at that quilt show and put it on my list of quilts I was going to make some day. Several years ago I purchased the pattern and starting collecting pictures of finished Eureka! quilts from the internet showing other quilters' color combinations. I finally decided mine was going to be greens and purples and purchased my fabrics. It was then a work in progress for more than a year, but I finished the top last March. It then sat in the "to be quilted" pile for nearly a year. I pulled it out of that pile this month and finally got it quilted and the binding finished. I am really pleased with how it turned out. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If I counted correctly, the queen-sized quilt has 3,112 pieces. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The finished size of the quilt is 87 x 105 inches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the month of February I have been giving away one $25 gift certificate to my <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/" style="color: #00a976; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">quilt shop</a> each Friday. To enter:</span><br style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;" /><br style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;" /><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Leave me a comment telling me about a quilt you have completed or would like to complete from your "bucket list." </span><br style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;" /><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;"></span><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. For a second chance at the giveaway, follow my blog (if you aren't already a follower) and leave me a comment telling me how you are following (i.e. Bloglovin', e-mail, Google Friend Connect, etc.). There are places along the left side of my blog to enter your information to become a follower. </span><br style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;" /><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 23.18400001525879px;"></span><span style="background-color: #e4e5ff; color: #323232; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please be sure to leave me a way in your comments to contact you if you are a no-reply blogger. I will contact this week's winner on Friday, February 21. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since I live in Minnesota and we have lots of snow here this time of the year, I added an extra layer of snow to my roof to make to make it more "Minnesota-like." Cindy is planning to add white yo-yos in the sky to her quilt for snowflakes. I am hoping to locate some snowflake buttons to add to the sky in my block. Looking forward to what she has in store for us in March!</span><br />
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Merrilee Rogotzkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650860231575694028noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383920684868992334.post-34537374811993815312014-01-31T22:02:00.000-08:002014-02-07T04:38:02.518-08:00Quilting With the Next Generation and a Giveaway<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the Christmas school break my almost 14-year-old daughter had some free time and requested to make a quilt with me. I let her look through my patterns, and she chose <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/product/yellow-brick-road/" target="_blank">"Yellow Brick Road" by Atkinson Designs</a>. She also looked through my fabrics and choose a fat quarter bundle of "<a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/category/fabrics/by-collection/sweet-things/" target="_blank">Sweet Things</a>." </span><br />
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Merrilee Rogotzkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650860231575694028noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383920684868992334.post-30782296990833629072014-01-24T19:00:00.000-08:002014-01-25T06:12:18.831-08:00Grow Your Blog - 2014<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Welcome to those who are stopping by for the "Grow Your Blog" Hop! My name is Merrilee. I love quilting. The part I enjoy most about quilting is choosing the fabrics and piecing the quilts, but I also own a long-arm quilting machine and do my own quilting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Pictures and stories of my quilts as I complete them. I also like to participate in blog hops and linky parties. Below is a Christmas quilt I recently finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Pictures and stories of new quilting patterns I have tried along with helpful tips for you if you would also like to make the item. One such pattern was the Abbey Bag pincushion with attached scrap/thread bag as shown below that I blogged about </span><a href="http://stitchinpost-blog.blogspot.com/2013/09/abbey-bag-sew-along-day-one.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. Many times I will also have kits available in my online quilt shop, </span><a href="http://www.stitchinitupquiltshop.com/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Stitchin' It Up Quilt Shop</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, for you to purchase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Ongoing projects such as progress on a year-long Block of the Month that I am doing with Quilt Doodle Designs. See my completed January blocks, a row of adorable snowmen, that I blogged about </span><a href="http://stitchinpost-blog.blogspot.com/2014/01/chilly-silly-snowmen.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you to "<a href="http://vicki-2bagsfull.blogspot.com/2014/01/welcome-to-grow-your-blog-2014.html" target="_blank">2 Bags Full</a>" for hosting this blog hop. Stop over at her blog to see the list of nearly 600 blogs participating in this hop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am fairly new to the blogging world. I hope you will consider following my blog using your favorite blog reader. I have places down the left side of my blog to sign up via Bloglovin', email, or Google Friends Connect. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I would love to hear how you are following me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Its approximate finished size is 10-1/4 x 9-1/4 x 4 inches. It is the perfect size for a handbag. The bag closes with a zipper (but can also be made without the zipper), has shoulder-length fabric handles, two outside pockets, and several inside pockets which can be customized to whatever size you would like. I used fabrics from the <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/category/fabrics/by-collection/twice-as-nice-by-riley-blake/" target="_blank">Riley Blake "Twice as Nice" collection</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had so much fun making the first one, I made a second one in different fabrics. For the second one I used <a href="http://stitchinitupquiltshop.danemcoweb.com/shop/category/fabrics/batiks/" target="_blank">Michael Miller batiks</a>. These instructions were very well written, and they didn't take long at all to make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I mentioned back in September, the blocks used to make this quilt were the Disappearing 4-patch. Missouri Star Quilt Co. has made a good </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA-10A_Uc6k" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">YouTube tutorial</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> on how to make this block. This is an easy and fun quilt block to make. </span></div>
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