Blog Index

  • Bolt–Portland, Oregon

    After we finished lunch at Grand Central Baking Company, and had visited Cool Cottons, we headed up into the Irvington district of Portland to a well-known quilt shop called Bolt.  I have read their…

  • Cool Cottons–Portland, Oregon

    My husband asked me to accompany him on a business trip and the first thing I did was scout around for quilt shops, naturally, and I was advised to come to this shop in…

  • WIP for the New Year

    I can’t believe I’m still working on this. No, it’s not the Christmas quilt, although that is still very much in play.  It’s the Autumn Quilt. Since I started collecting fabrics for this oh,…

  • Happy New Year 2013

    Finally!  I can show a these little wristlets — mini-zip purses with straps — that I made for Christmas, because I gave the last one away yesterday.  Just a simple zip, to which I…

  • Ring Out, Wild Bells

    Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,The flying cloud, the frosty light:The year is dying in the night;Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.  Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring,…

  • Wonky Stars, Wonky World

    I know you must think I fell off of a cliff.  I posted on Lee’s Freshly Pieced blog as a guest host, (who has since removed the post) then went dark and silent for…

  • WIP–December Quilting

    Today I’m guest-hosting over at Lee’s blog: Freshly Pieced, so I encourage you to head over there and see all the beautiful quilts in her Linky party, and leave some holiday comments to cheer…

  • Holiday Quilt Night for the Good Heart Quilters

    I’m sure I’ve told you, but our little quilt group–named The Good Heart Quilters–began when Lisa, majorly pregnant with her second daughter, enlisted my help (as well as few others) to get us all…

  • Zippers

    I had need to buy a passel of zippers (don’t ask questions around Christmastime!) and found a great online source I thought I’d share (and no, they aren’t paying me to write this). It’s…

  • 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…