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RedWhite–Painting
I’ve been gone to see my mother and father (he had an art show of his paintings) in Utah. While I was there, I took the chance to download the recent red and white…
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Visual Snapshots
Are you like me? Do you see something and either take a snap with your cell phone, or madly sketch out the idea on the back of a gas station receipt? It’s like we’re…
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Red/White Quilt Inspirations
I recently wrote to a new friend: This evening I was looking at the red/white quilt exhibit in that was recently put on in NYC. My mother has an iPad, so I downloaded the…
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Text on Textiles
Just voted on Spoonflower again! There were a lot of fabrics that I liked, so there are more in my square of votes today. Sometimes I see these fabrics and I wish I had…
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Blog Strolling
I had a few minutes this morning to do some blog strolling–looking around, clicking on links, letting my browsing take me where it will. (Oh, yeah, and I changed the look of the blog…
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Naming Quilts
I like the idea of naming my quilts–call it the Eve in me–but I don’t name everything. I read a blog post about someone who named their electronics and I like the idea, but…
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Spoonflower Fabrics
I just voted over at Spoonflower for my favorite fabrics in this week’s contest: rain. I also had fun looking at their Project Selvage contestants. For those of you who haven’t known about Spoonflower,…
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Come A-Round, top complete
A happy day!
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Spring Quilt
After working on the bold colors and patterns of Come A-Round, I have to say that this was a big change, fabric-wise. As I mentioned, I’m using the line Sunkissed, and it is predominantly…
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Whose Design Is It Anyway?
I wrote yesterday about my Spring Quilt, but in the writing, I realized I had another post about how we come up with our designs, and the tangled strands of the World Wide Web. …
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Spring Quilt
So I was just minding my business when my car turned into the local quilt shop’s parking lot on the way home from school (Calico Horse, in Redlands, California). It had been a bad…
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American Folk Art: Red & White Quilts
Apparently there is an incredible exhibit of red and white quilts. Judging from this photo it might give the viewer a sense of having tumbled down the rabbit hole and is now gazing upon…
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Recent Acquisitions to the Elizabeth Stash
I’ve made some recent acquisitions from Fabricworm. This caught my eye, and I bought it not really understanding that it was printed on a heavier cotton–almost a twill. But I think the theme of…
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Quilting World Shake-Up
Okay, so I’ve been absent from the blogosphere for a while, minding my own business, just stitching along doing my applique for this crazy project I got myself into. And it’s going along very…
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Looky! Part II
Yep, it’s Looky! Part II. Applique is all done (obviously by the gap between posts, it’s evident that I’m not a quick appliquer), and I’m ready to attach the two side borders. One of…
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Deep in the Trenches & Twined Thread
Or rows of flowers, as the case may be. It’s winter, so that means some sort of flu bug or sickness will find its way to me. So, I sat on the sofa and…
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Looky!
One side pinned down. Sort of. There’s always changes. (I can already see a couple I want to make.) This after I complained to my mother that I hadn’t had any time to work…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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