Blog Index

  • Good to Be At This Place

    I finally decided on the blue inner border and a glorious blossoming orange and yellow mum border.  My husband calls this the red dot phase and so it is–trying to figure out where to…

  • Choices

    Concentrate on those outer borders: the ones separated by the thin dark green strip. Now, what have you learned?  That watching someone trying to figure out a quilt is more boring than watching paint…

  • Research

    Okay, so I did what any self-respecting woman with a computer and fast internet connection would do: I searched the web for other variations of this quilt.  First up: Google with 217 pages (about…

  • Quilt. Not. Working

    In any quilter’s life, there is a point where the quilt is not working.  You can zip along in your creative automobile at a fabulous pace, then it’s like someone reached over, turned off…

  • New York Fashion Takes a Cue from a Quilter

    Looks like the zeitgeist is strong for pink and orange–check out the colors used in this model’s outfit. I could wear this and match my quilt! From New York Fashion Week, Feb 2011.

  • Cara-Cara-Kumquat

    Say that two or three times–it just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? Cara Cara is a type of sweet navel orange that has pinky flesh, and is an early navel variety.  Kumquats are…

  • Quilty Blogs

    Red Pepper Quilts is hosting a Post-Your-Blog page.   I posted mine over there–and there is a long list of wonderful looking blogs to browse through.  I’m always excited to see new ideas and to…

  • Halfway? There

    I think I’m about halfway finished.  I’m glad to be at this point! A set of papers to grade are coming in Thursday, and I need to pay attention to more school stuff.  Getting…

  • Orangey-Pink Quilt

    When we dropped off my sister’s quilt at Cathy-the-Quilter’s, Cathy had my orange and pink quilt ready to come home.  I’m just now getting to it. My original thought was to piece the binding,…

  • Nope.

    A Day in the Life. Trying for those first borders. The captions are in the photos. Not done, but at least I can now go to dinner with my husband.  Our Saturday-night date. This…

  • Whew!

    You know how we feel when we watch an elderly (read: ten years older than my parents) person cross the street, one hesitating step at a time, and there we are in our cars,…

  • Road to California–Part IV (final)

    There’s no particular order to the quilts in this post–just some quilts that I saw that were interesting, or lovely, like this one with the eight billion triangles.  Titled Summer at the Lake, it…

  • Road to California 2011–part III

    So, what caught my eye this year?  While I felt in years past I could make a coherent statement about the content of the show, or perhaps an aspect of quiltmaking, the only comment…

  • Cynthia’s Quilt Done!

    Here we are, standing in front of the completed quilt top.  The little yellow papers are to keep track of the rows. We went off to the quilt shop on Wednesday morning, picked up…

  • Cynthia’s Quilt

    We interrupt Road for a minute to tell you the sewing machine is still cooking along. (More posts are coming.) My sister came to stay for a few days.  Guess what?  She wanted to…

  • Road to California 2011–part II

    Okay–I admit it.  I’ve done this a lot of times. The first year it was held in the Marriott hotel, and the quilts were everywhere–in the central courtyard with many of the vendors in…

  • Road to California-2011 (part I)

    Road to California, our local quilt show, is being held this weekend in Ontario, California.  My friend Leisa and I had pre-purchased our arm bands, and joined the other eight billion middle-aged women in…

  • Slow Going

    It’s slow going on putting together the arcs. And slow going on ripping the paper off the arcs.  But the book was right: using parchment paper makes it really much easier–much faster than other…

  • More Dotty Quilt

    These two pictures were taken by someone who attended a lecture by Becky Goldsmith, the creator and originator of the dotty circle quilt I’m working on.  What I found interesting is her choice of…

  • Come A-Round Quilt

    I’m getting there, piece by piece. Two quotes from Sister Corita, a famous art teacher.  These are from the book Learning by Heart–Teachings to free the creative spirit, written by Corita Kent and Jan…

  • Too Many Variations!

    This was my Monday. Each of these little pictures shows a different variation of those corners around the crop circles. Do you ever have days like this the more you try to get ahead…

  • Crop Circles

    All day long, when I show up for meals, or to change the laundry, my husband would ask what I was doing. “Making crop circles,” I would say. Crop circles–you know, when the-aliens-have-landed-and-want-to-eat-your-brain kind…

  • SIX!!

    No, not six quilts.  That wouldn’t be normal, would it. Six dotty circles!! I was kind of commenting on how many pieces it takes to my quilty pal, Rhonda, who lives on the Other…

  • Quilter T-shirts

    Brilliant! I should get one of these and wear it around the Road to California Quilt Show which starts next week.  Or not.  Somehow I think quilters can wear pretty interesting clothing without any…

  • Wheels of Dots

    Okay, compared to Red Pepper, I’m awfully slow.  She gets a quilt done in a day, it seems, but here’s what I’ve been able to do in a few days.  Two almost-done wheels!  Yay–only…

  • Quilt Night–Jan 2010

    Our little quilting group (which at one point had the name of Good Heart Quilters) got together for our first time in the new year.  It was at my house, so I got to…

  • Piper’s Quilts and Comforts, Salt Lake City

    When we were up in Utah over the holidays, I stopped by Piper’s Quilts and Comforts in Salt Lake City.  It’s in an area of the city known as Sugarhouse, not too far from…