Blog Index

  • 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…

  • Portuguese Tile Quilt–top’s all done!

    Tomorrow: some tips and tricks on assembly.  But for today, just a quilt. UPDATE: While this was called the Portuguese Tile Quilt during its creation, the final name is Harvesting the Wind. 

  • Polaroid Blocks

    Woo-hoo!  All the little Polaroid blocks arrived from the Polaroid Block Swap.  I laid them out and looked at them all, and really thought some lovely quilters somewhere had done a fine job making…

  • PTQ/WIP

    PTQ is how I’ve taken to calling the Portuguese Tile Quilt since writing out the long name is tedious.  But tonight when my husband came upstairs to check on me (his cave is downstairs,…

  • Portuguese Tile Quilt

    I started with this picture of some tiles from Portugal. Then I mocked up a quilt in my Quilt-Pro 5 program.  I mapped it out with 8″ squares, set 6 across in 6 rows,…

  • Exhaustion

    Life is one long process of getting tired. (Samuel Butler, novelist) If you see a whole thing, it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives… But up close a world’s all dirt and rocks.…

  • More WIPs than I Need

    Yes, I did the time-honored tradition of quilters everywhere, that when you can’t finish what you’ve got going (Summer Treat, Lollypop Trees) make the leap and add to your stash.  Here’s my latest additions,…

  • Scrappy Stars!

    Scrappy Stars, full view I can finally write this post, as I caught Dave before he picked up his latest Donna Leon book (see the picture at the end for my stack).  I used…

  • Garden of Your Mind

    I don’t generally post videos and other things on here, but I read about this on Becky Goldsmith’s blog (Piece O’ Cake), and fell in love with it. I have felt lately like my…