Blog Index

  • 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…

  • Small Boxy Bag Tutorial

    Yeah–I changed the look of the blog again.  I liked the clean, spareness of the other, but the giant-sized text was really bugging me.  I hope the quilts look okay with this warm beigey…

  • Happy Old Year Ending

    In the old days of travel, we had a travel agent who was charming, helpful, knowledgeable and had a lovely saying passed down to her from her grandfather.  He’d never say Happy New Year–it…

  • Working in a Series

    Here I am again, with a bunch of pink and orange and some orangey-red patches.  I’d started this when the boredom and pressure of constant grading began to get to me earlier in the…

  • Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas! I hope you sleep well under hand-made quilts, with visions of sugar-plums quilt blocks dancing in your head.  I have a few projects I’m dreaming of, but I’m stepping away from the…

  • Christmas Star Quilt

    One of my happy moments this last couple of weeks was putting our new Christmas Star Quilt on the bed. I used to have another Christmas quilt, made of a lot of earthy, rich…

  • Time Flies

    I made a quilt like this and gave it away, but thought I’d like one too.  I started re-collecting a few months ago, and now have enough for two quilts!  Doesn’t it always go…

  • Crossed Canoes

    My sister’s friend recently lost her daughter.  As a memorial, my sister organized a group of friends to make quilt blocks in the crossed canoe pattern.  She laid them out on her floor, called…

  • “Front Basting”

    I had to post this snippet of video from Pink Chalk Studios showing Lisa Prior Lucy demonstrating her technique of “front basting,”while she sat at Market this year.  Of course, this is of interest…

  • Quilt Night–November

    Last night was Quilt Night at Leisa’s house, and she and I collaborated on the theme and the preparations.  The theme: Dots!  She picked up some cute dotty boxes and we had everyone bring…

  • Quilty Blogs, part 1

    I feel like a four-year old girl when it comes to this blog: trying on one look after another.  Maybe this one will settle in, and I’ll like it. It’s been a long slog…