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Gingham!
It all started when. . . I went to a gigantor garage sale and found boxes of fabric, and tons of gingham. Gingham? I hadn’t used or sewn with gingham for years. I sent…
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iPad Quilt Drawings
I’ve been quite curious to see if I could use any of the iPad’s apps to draw quilts, or even attempt to draw anything. I had fallen in love with the press for Pages,…
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Gardiner’s Quilt Shop
Several states away from Ginger’s Quilt Shoppe is Gardiner’s Quilt Shop. My mom and I went out one morning for some girls shopping, and after we did the errands she said she knew of…
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Ginger’s Quilt Shoppe
Ginger’s Quilt Shoppe is about 30 minutes from my house, and that’s the place I went to when I was agonizing over what to put in Scrappy Stars to finish it off. While I…
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Gingham on my Mind
Well, I have gingham on my mind, but other things too. Like these three grandsons of mine who showed up for the weekend. Like this stack of papers who arrived on Wednesday and are…
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Gingham Fabrics
I know Krista and I scored a bunch of vintage ginghams at a garage sale, but I was curious to see if I could still buy them commercially. Yep. JoAnn’s had them in the…
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Friday Finishing School–This and That
I’m almost done with the quilt blocks I’m not yet revealing, keeping it under wraps for a variety of reasons. Soon, soon. I have this tiny little window of quilting before the research papers…
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WIP Wednesday
I went to see my mother and father over the weekend, and it’s taken me until now to catch up. The visit was well worth it, however, as there’s always something interesting and unique…
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Pieces to Scrappy Stars
I finished the first gift–a pillowcase for my son Chad who is always traveling. Because of the London Olympics this year, there is lots of fabric with British themes, and the whitish area has…
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WIP–Happy Birthday!
First off, let me say Happy Birthday to my son, Chad. He’s grown into quite the man, with a wife and boys of his own, but I still think back to the days when…
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Scrappy Stars Saga
So I left you all when I thought I had the answers to the Scrappy-Star-conundrum with the Japanese fabrics. Nope. Discouraged, I headed to a quilt shop, where guess what–out of all of the…
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Struggle
Three quotes for tonight, as I work on my quilt: When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling… But it happens very rarely; usually it’s agony… I go to…
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Half-Square Triangle Trick
So, I’m pinning along on Pinterest, chasing down Crossed Canoes, checking out boards (it’s the after-lunch slump) and found this tutorial for a new way to make half-square triangles. The drawback: all the outside…
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WIP–Still Those Scrappy Stars
They’re going to drive me crazy. Like Leila, who left me a comment, I could see that the greens read like a solid, which is what these stars needed. But after a visit here,…
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Journey to Japan
I appreciate all your comments and I like what you taught me. I learned that if I wanted something rich and visually multi-layered, the black background was the one to lean towards. And while…
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Quilt Scaffolding
Climbing up the Statue of Liberty one year, I was amazed to see all the scaffolding that held up Lady Liberty. Surprised even. I still think of that. One of my favorite Broadway shows…
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WIP–Stuck!
There’s this favorite cartoon of grad students everywhere by Matt Groenig. It was tacked up outside my husband’s office, courtesy of one of his grad students. But my favorite square was the one above:…
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Sewing Up A Storm (or a maybe a Breeze)
So why lead with this picture? Usually I put up a quilt (keep scrolling, they’re coming!), so you quilters all go ga-ga and quickly pin it into a file or a pinboard, and because,…
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Nebraska’s International Quilt Study Center
Hunter’s Star quilt top, c. 2003, unquilted Recently I commented on another Debbie’s block, titled Hopscotch, saying that it was an interesting variation on a Hunter’s Star block. She wrote me back, included the…
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Loose Threads–Krista’s Questions, Answered
Krista, of KristaStitched, challenged a few of us bloggers to answer some questions: 1. Starch or no starch? I always think of our clothing and textiles teacher who warned us about little bugs who…
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Scrappy Stars–WIP Wednesday
When I get these blocks all up here in a row, I like to look at them. I look at them when I’m talking on the phone. I look at them when I’m supposed…
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Copyright Loose Threads
This is my final post on copyright, hopefully. But it comes because not only did Ms. Spain put up another post on her blog, the New York Times ran an interesting editorial on stealing,…
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FSF–iPad Cover
Okay, this was me this week. Lost in a fog. I even forgot to post on WIP Wednesday, which is usually like a religion to me. Suspected sinus infection. Exhaustion. Suffering from What-Day-Is-It-itis. Verified…
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Copyright Update
I loved reading all your comments about the issue of copyright in my blog post about Emily Cier v. Kate Spade–who does own that copyright? A Passionate Quilter wrote: For those of us who…
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Scrap Attack Quilt
Today, over at Stitched in Color, Rachel is having a Scrap Attack Festival of Quilts. Here’s my entry. It’s a mini-quilt, roughly about the size of a sheet of paper: 8 1/2″ by 11″…
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Lawsuits and Quilters
My friend Rhonda sent me news of this latest scuffle involving quilters and the law, as a follow-up to my post about Pinterest. I’m piecing this together (no pun intended) by reading the blogs…
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WIP–iPad Cover
Since we had picked up iPads during our jaunt to San Francisco, any self-respecting quilter knows what’s next: make a cover. And I knew just what I wanted to do. Waiting for me when…
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