Blog Index

  • Autumn Quilt

    Autumn Quilt is just smoothed up on the wall (crookedly), but I’m happy to be at this place with this quilt.  I started collecting fabrics for it about 8 or 9 years ago, gathering…

  • Undead Bee

    I had just about given up hope — no, I HAD given up hope of our Far Flung Bee block exchange ever finishing its run, so I put up a note on Flickr.  So…

  • Autumn Quilt Borders

    For this WIP Wednesday, kindly hosted by Lee of Freshly Pieced fabrics (click to head back there and see what others are doing), I chose to resurrect an ancient Work In Progress: my autumn…

  • WIP and Scenes from Italy

    I think we are all breathing a sigh of relief that we can answer our phones again without being assaulted during dinner by robo-calls from a candidate.  Or go to our mailboxes without needing…

  • Craft vs. Art

    Ken Price: “Untitled Two Parts” For a while now, I’ve been intrigued by a comment by Ken Price, a ceramic sculptor, an artist.  Since he sometimes did representational shapes like cups, saucers and covered…

  • English Elizabeth’s Technical Side

    See the previous posts for the reveal of English Elizabeth (above), part of the Four-in-Art quilt group. One of the Twelve-by-Twelve artists (after who we are patterning our group) said she likes commercial fabrics and always…

  • New Theme for Four-in-Art

    While we are still figuring out the rules and learning our way around this little group, it’s my turn to choose the sub-theme to our grand theme of “Nature.”  I’ve gone back and forth…

  • English Elizabeth: First Four-in-Art Reveal Day

    English Elizabeth Made and quilted by Elizabeth Eastmond, for the Four-in-Art Quilt Group Elizabeth Frances Fellow Critchlow, a lass born in England in 1855, in the county of Staffordshire, surely did love her garden.…

  • Creativity and the Web

    I’m thinking about all those affected by the horrific storm on the East Coast.  I have several quilty/blogger friends, as well as quite a few family members who have been affected and hope that…

  • Digital Images-NYPL

    While I do think that the internet sucks up my time and not always in a good way, occasionally there are places that are interesting to visit, to gain inspiration.  The above image is…

  • Four-in-Art Quilt Group

    When I was in Long Beach at the quilt show, I fell in love with the Twelve-by-Twelve art quilts that graced one area of the exhibit hall.  I wrote about them *here,* and wondered…

  • Snapshot: Putting the Quilt Top Together

    Here’s my Snapshot Quilt, in the requisite rustic pose drooping over a gate with rusty wheelbarrow.  Go yard work for great props. This is the third and final post in my tutorial of how…

  • Snapshot: Constructing the Double Polaroid Blocks

    First, let me say a thank you to Lee of Freshly Pieced Fabrics, who is hosting WIP Wednesday for us.  Click *here* to return to her blog and see other fabulous Works-in-Progress. If you…

  • Snapshot!

    I present. .  . Snapshot! This is where I’ve been for a while, trying to work out the kinks of this crazy idea I had for my Polaroid Quilt Blocks.  I didn’t use them…

  • Work (still) in Progress

    Many thanks to Lee of Freshly Pieced, who hosts a group of quilters hard at work.  Schlep back over to her blog to see others who are working hard. And yes, this week, I…

  • Quilt Night and Black & White Winners

    As promised, last night Simone’s daughter Camille helped me pick the winners for the Black and White Giveaway.  I’m terrible at picking winners because I want everyone to win.  So to take it out…

  • Wowsers!

    I  finished the grading on the above stack of Torture Implements papers.  (But don’t they look nice, all lined up?  You would think I liked to work in rectangles and squares in my time…

  • Quilting Along

    This is a picture of my latest start of my hexie blocks series, taken in my super-duper photo studio: a piece of batting laid down on the kitchen counter, making sure that I don’t…

  • Almost 100 Followers Giveaway

    Just to keep my perspective about all this, when I announced I had 95 followers and was almost to 100, I lost one.  I graduated with my first degree in Clothing, Textiles and Clothing…

  • Blog is Growing UP

    I remember those days from when my kids were small, they had to bring something in to commemorate 100 days of school. Well, I’m almost to 100 followers, and I’ve got something to give…

  • Harvesting the Wind

    After I finished up the quilting of the Portuguese Tile Quilt, I hung it on the railing over our stairs until I could get to the binding.  I walked underneath it more than once,…

  • All My Far Flung Bee Blocks

    Krista and two of her Instagrammies started it, invited three others and by early this summer, we were busy sewing and sending out blocks.  Some had other things interrupt them (isn’t that how a…

  • September 2012 Quilt Night

    The Good Heart Quilters got together the second week of September to teach & learn, catch up and eat, and to hang out. Lisa showed us the completed Arabic Lattice quilt, everything finished up…

  • EPP, the Sixth

    Finished up tonight, while watching Doc Martin on Netflix (recommended).  The first date I have on this project is February 21, 2012, so obviously I started sewing these at the beginning of the year…

  • A true, blue WIP list

    First off, let me tell you what I’m working on now: Portuguese Tile Quilt.  (To readers of this blog I apologize for showing the top one more time.)  I’m displaying it for my weekly…

  • Blind Ambition

    So I’ve been thinking about old age and dying, especially after the dream I had last night where I was trying to get off of a bridge littered with bodies and it was imperative…

  • PTQ–Tips and Tricks

    This is a continuation of what-I’m-calling the Portuguese Tile Quilt, a free quilt pattern from *here.*  I arranged my pieces on the board so that no two fabrics were in any block, meaning in…