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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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This is really my work in progress: my class on Critical Thinking, and here’s a stack of books I’d assembled to cull through, glean from. But in the end I found as much help…
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My Head’s in a Book. . . or Two
I should be annotating the readings I assigned to my students with my brand new colored pencils, but instead my brain’s rebelled. It is Saturday after all, and I need a break. Remember the…
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WIP–Summer Treat Quilt Top
Many thanks to Rebecca, who is subbing for Lee at Freshly Pieced, for hosting our WIPs. Click on the link to be taken back over to that site to see others who are sharing…
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Long Beach–Final Post
It’s the final post because it’s time to move on, maybe moan about the first week of school where my classroom was 83 degrees. Whose idea is it to begin school in the middle…
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Long Beach Quilt Show: Log Cabins
I’m just sneaking in a little slide show here before I finish up the Long Beach quilt posting. This collection of quilts belongs to Claire McKarns, who has been “collecting, buying and seeling antique…
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Long Beach, Part 3
Let’s see if I can roll these out for you. I’m watching the Closing Ceremonies of the Olympics and all this music has me typing quickly. Karen Eckmeier’s quilt, Aegean Memories, was a masterpiece…
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Summer’s Fading Fast
I read a post from someone in the Midwest this morning, and the blogger said she could start to feel the turn in the air, that telltale sign that summer was fading and fall…
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Long Beach, part 2
Leaving behind the Twelve by Twelve exhibit, IQA has a several other mini-shows within the big show. There was a general quilt section, some small created houses on a platform, SAQA, a series of…
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Long Beach Quilt Festival–Part I
Where have I been? Where all of you have been. Watching the Olympics. For those of us Stateside, “Happy and glorious” is a phrase from the British National Anthem, “God Save the Queen [King]”…
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Summer Fun and a Tote Bag
Many thanks to Lee of Freshly Pieced Fabrics for hosting this WIP Wednesday. Click to return to her blog and see others who are staying out of the pool on occasion, and getting some…
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