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Goals for Fall 2014
I used to belong to the FAL thing–“Finish A Long” and loved loved it. But because of my personal lifetime karma of Never Winning a Prize, I decided that while it was still beneficial…
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Straighten Up and Sew Right
(from *here*) It had been nearly a month since I’d threaded the needle of my sewing machine and sent it to humming, and I felt like the sad seamstress in the photo, above, pining…
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Where Creativity Lurks: My Around The World Blog Hop Post (done my way)
a picture of the connections of the World Wide Web, from here We scan through page after page of blogs, fingers working the mouse, images flying by until one catches our eye. Pinned! Now…
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Summer Report
What I Did This Summer (And can it already be over??) 1. Went to Utah and ate a Crab Sandwich at a Kneaders Sandwich Shop 2. Went to the beach with my grandkids and…
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Inspiration. . . and a Giveaway!
In the book I just finished reading, Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon, he writes that “Nothing is original.” He quotes Jonathan Lethem who notes that “when people call something ‘original,’ nine out of ten times…
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Circles Block #3, EPP Sew-A-Long
This month the block is a tad more difficult, but my primary motto on these things is “I Make The Mistakes So You Don’t Have To.” Here we go. And where did the inspiration…
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Deconstruction of Ted and Maurice at Lorinc Pap Ter, an Art Quilt
This post is a deconstruction of the techniques I used to create Ted and Maurice at Lorinc Pap Ter, a small (12″ square) art quilt for the Four-in-Art Quilt group. Our challenge this quarter…
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Ted and Maurice at Lorinc Pap Ter, a Four-in-Art Quilt, August 2014
Ted and Maurice at Lorinc Pap Ter No. 4 in the Urban Series It all started here, in a small square in Budapest right outside our hotel, on a recent overseas trip. We walked…
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Creative Housekeeping
I read Grant Snider faithfully, as he is an artist who often captures the frustrations I feel in my creative world (while trying to juggle that OTHER world of job, laundry, etc.). I thought…
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Deep Summer
In deep summer, everything moves a little slower because of the heat. The sewing slows down because we’re at the beach, or watching Endeavor on the television, or just lazily talking after dinner on…
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Pineapple Quilt Block (for Bee-mates)
As my friend Susan of Patchworknplay says, I’m Queen Bee. I wrote this post as I had both my bees, the Always Bee Learning Bee (August) and the Mid-Century Modern Bee (November), make this…
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Happy to Be Home
Well, the laundry is done, but I’m still walking into walls, as the jet lag recovery seems fiercer this time, perhaps complicated by the arrival of my son and his family 24 hours after…
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Independence Day
Happy Fourth of July! I just returned from a long trip to Croatia, Slovenia and Budapest, and am still trying to figure out what time zone I’m in. As soon as I do,…
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SHINE Circles Block 2, English Paper Piecing
Circles Block #2: Sunshine Here we go again, with the second block in our slow sewing, English Paper Piecing, series of circles. While I call it Sunshine, because of the fabric I used, the…
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Some Interesting Circle Quilts
While looking through this blog, I found some examples of interesting circle quilts. This one, made by Kathleen H. McCrady and titled Sawtooth X, is patterned after an old one from 1875, using reproduction fabrics in…
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Cleaning the Design Wall
Since I am away from the computer for a while, I’m running a few favorite, previously published posts. This one originally ran on July 22, 2010, but is modified for today’s post. ˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚ Here’s the before:…
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Process vs. Product
Since I am away from the computer for a while, I’m running a few favorite, previously published posts. This one originally ran on July 16, 2010, but is modified for today’s post. ˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚ Is it possible…
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Contrasts: Four-in-Art August 2014 Challenge
from *here* The theme for our August 1st Challenge Reveal is “Contrast.” Anne suggests the contrasts inherent in cities: noisy/quiet, man-made/natural, fast/slow, wealthy neighborhood/poor neighborhood. I have started thinking about this, but first, my…
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Quilts and Stitching in Art
Okay, I had a fun time in Washington, DC this spring once I realized I could play I Spy and look for quilts. I think this is a good game that I should keep…
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Take Some Time
Since I am away from the computer for a while, I’m running a few favorite, previously published posts. This one originally ran on April 26, 2010, but is modified for today’s post. ˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚˚ There was…
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Iron Woman Improv: My Version of a Weekender Bag
Ever heard of Iron Woman Improv? Well, anyone can throw together a bunch of scraps and make it end up sort of squarish-like, but this past week I’ve improv-ed a travel bag for some…
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Some June Bee Blocks
For June, Celeste asked us to help her whittle down her scraps by making Bonnie Hunter’s Boxy Stars, with instructions found *here.* I messed up sewing one corner and went into my stash (this…
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Elizabeth’s Lollypop Trees-Final Photos
I wanted to take some final photos of my Lollypop Trees quilt, partly because I didn’t feel like I’d done an adequate job posting about it when I had finished it (and did worry about…
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SHINE: Circles Block 1, English Paper Piecing
Worn out from two back-to-back trips, I spent the day quietly hand-sewing my Circles Block #1, Swirlygig, using the English Paper-Piecing Method. A couple of weeks ago, I had decided I wanted to make…
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Circles: English Paper Piecing
Inspired (always) by Mary, who blogs at Molly Flanders Makerie, I have had circles on the brain for several months now, hiding behind that other stack of things I’m always yakking about. from *here*,…
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Happy Memorial Day Weekend
The District of Columbia World War I Memorial (on the left of the Reflecting Pool, as you face the Lincoln Memorial) Sunset, World War II Memorial Arlington Cemetery, with all the flags out on…
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Colorwheel Blossom–quilt top done!
My husband very graciously held up ColorWheel Bloom for me this morning, as it simply melted into my usual place of the design wall in my sewing studio/room. I like the bright rainbow of colors…
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