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Quilt Finish: Orange Sprite Phenomenon
The Blue and Cheddar quilt is finished, bound, and sent off to the recipient. If it were to have a name and a label, I would call it this: This is Quilt #311 in…
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Carrefour III: SAQA, Aotearoa Quilters, Libs Elliot, Esther Delgado, Caroline Simm, and the OZQuilt Network
This post covers: • Venue 6: Espace des Tisserands, with OZQuilt Network, Libs Elliot, Caroline Simm, Esther Delgado, and the Aotearoa Quilters I have a main Carrefour Quilt Show page that lists all the…
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Carrefour II: Lois Parish Evans, Ina Statescu, AFHAM, and ValPatch Quilters
This post covers: • Venue 2: Osmont Pavillion, with Lois Parish Evans• Venue 3: Église St. Louis, with Ina Statescu• Venue 4: Église des Chaînes, with the French Ananbaptist and Mennonite History Society (AFHAM)•…
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This and That • November 2025
Dropping off the face of the quilty universe has one advantage: you get some sewing done. But first, let me talk about the Carrefour Quilt Show (France) posts. All discussions of any project begin…
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Build Me a Cabin of Light
Remember this cartoon from a couple of posts ago? Well, I decided to break the secret rules about Blocks of the Month quilt-a-longs and decided to finish up my quilt at Month Nine. The…
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Tiny Victories are Still Victories
Rookie Mistakes could be another title, even though I don’t consider myself a rookie. Both of these ideas are true for me this week. I’ve had Krakow Circles kicking around since Spring, and when…
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Carrefour Quilt Show 2025: Intro and Part I
I’ve now been to the Carrefour Quilt Show in the Alsace area of France three times, and this is start of my third write-up of that amazing experience. The Carrefour Show is like none…
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This and That • October 2025 • Quilt Finish
Boo! This latest finish had a few mothers: 1) a bag of scraps from mine and Leisa’s Halloween in the Vegetable Patch quilt, and… 2) a need to make a quick quilt, which Azulejos…
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Summer Flowers • Quilt Finish • Etc.
The title of this quilt pattern is Posh Penelope, and as one commenter said, “That is a name that needs to be changed.” So I did. Summer Flowers is quilt #307 and measures 80″…
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Paris Mercerie (Fabric) & Paris Markets
Now, where were we? Everyone travels for different reasons. Some to go to a place and look around. Some to escape the routine and breathe some fresh air. Me? I go for fabric. Okay,…
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New York Beauties • Quilt Finish
New York Beauties took a long time to get here: about three years. Started in 2022 from the spark of an idea, with a pillow of four New York Beauty blocks, it quickly morphed…
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This and That • August 2025
Since today is the 30th, I slid August’s This and That right under the wire. For those who are new here (and thank you for subscribing) I often do a “This and That” post…
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Summer Flowers (aka Posh Penelope)
This is Posh Penelope’s birthday: I’m thinking somewhere around the 19th of January in the Time of the Masks, aka, 2022. We slid Road to California under the 2020 wire, then it was cancelled/online/whatever…
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Did Vasarely get there first?
Maybe. Maybe Victor Vasarely got there first in the art world, but I’m guessing the origin of circles on squares, or even squircles on squares, may have come from all the mending the first…
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Squircles
You knew this was coming, right? After you saw that last post about squircles, I’ll bet you knew I’d go hunting and fall down a rabbit hole. You are very perceptive. This is a…
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Quilt Show 2025 Springville Art Museum
I like making these little “postcards” with names from the map. The Mesa is that long dark stripe of rock on the lower right side of the photo, moving away from the road. Yes,…
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The Dress Does not Make the Quilter
Well, actually Rabelais said “The dress does not make the monk,” but since I’m not a monk like Rabelais — although I do sit monk-like day after day at the sewing machine — I…
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The Zeigarnik Effect: the Power of the Unfinished
Adrian Zumbrunnen, a human interface designer, wrote recently about how “Blooma Zeigarnik [on the right] and her professor of Gestalt psychology were having coffee at a bustling restaurant…While waiting for the check, the two…
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This and That: No June Gloom, please.
First off: Happy Father’s Day to the men in your life, and especially the men in mine: my husband, Supreme Quilt Holder, three sons, and one son-in-law, then a gang of grandsons. Here’s a…
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Kraków Circles
I have this line of patterns I call PatternLite. Usually they start out as just a block I’m kind of doodling around with and want to share. Then I decide I want to make…
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When You Can’t Create You Can Work
Henry Miller, a writer in the early part of the 20th century, devised a list of rules for himself when writing his first book (Black Spring). I found this whole idea while zipping through…
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Quilting and the Churches of Kraków
Traveling is a blitz on the senses, a clearing of the mind, and making connections that are new or novel. I’m always making quilting connections when I travel, I suppose you are too: new…
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Catching Up, Keeping Myself Honest
You could skip this post like you might want have to skipped Weight Watchers checkins back in the day…it’s a post that charts progress, keeps me honest and helps me admit my defeats as…
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Flying Through Rainbows
In a series of interviews with new poets, they each expressed their confusion, discussed their work ethic, and acknowledged the daily drudgery — and joy — of being able to create and work. (See…
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If I Do This, Can I Do That? April 2025
If I go to see all my kids, will I be able to recover from the trip? If I buy this, can I buy that? If I choose to sew this project, will I…
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A Life Full of Yes
Candy Clark, who has just published a book of Polaroid photographs of her younger life with the Hollywood stars of her era noted in a recent article that looking backward to this time wasn’t…
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Sewing in Translation
You know when I stood in the shopping area of Carrefour Quilt Show last September (2024), I wanted to buy up all the fabrics and patterns and everything, but alas my suitcase was small,…
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