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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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Selvages
I did some recreational shopping last week when my husband was out of town. It was after grading/prepping for hours and hours and I just sat and enjoyed looking at all the fabrics at…
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Christmas Star Quilt Binding is On
Finished! Every six months our church has a conference they broadcast over the internet, and I take time to sit and ponder and listen, but I’m better off if I keep my hands busy…
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Hide and Seek
Right now I’m playing hide and seek with my brain. Like, where is it? That was triggered by a hide and seek game for the fabrics which I need so I can make binding…
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A Visit to Mt. Vernon Quilters Guild
I’m out on the East Coast and one morning. This past Tuesday, I met Rhonda, a friend and quilter from the DC area, for brunch. Afterwards we headed down to my old quilt guild…
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Am I Crazy?
The Material Obsession Quilt Shop in Australia just announced they are putting together a new Block of the Month group for Lollipop Trees, a fabulous applique quilt by Kim McClean. I sent this picture…
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Love Dances on the Green
Today, after baking three loaves of banana nut bread, and two loaves of zucchini-cranberry-nut bread, I sat down and finished stitching the binding on this green quilt. So that’s two done, in between everything…
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Blues on the Bed
There’s something to be said for old movies. I watched Dead Reckoning with Humphrey Bogart this afternoon and finished getting the binding on. That quilt is now sitting on the end of my bed.…
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Binding, Finally
I spent most of the day Thursday hitting the books, grading papers, logging in their grades online. Friday, I taught, smelled a gas leak (called The Gas Company), taught, reported that our phone wasn’t…
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Quilts with Attitude
“Does Not Compute,” by Boo Davis I was doing the mind-numbing thing of sitting at the computer, surfing along after another long week in the classroom. I stumbled onto a slide show in the…
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Why I Have a Quilt Next to My Schoolbooks
It’s to remind me that once–before I was writing syllabi and course calendars and reading student emails too early in the morning–I had a life as a quilter. I reach out and touch this…
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Thimbles and Threads–Draper, Utah
One of the fun things about being a quilter is knowing that just about wherever you go, you can find a new quilt shop to explore. Since this last trip to Utah was mainly…
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Long Beach Quilt Show–New Quilts
First the whine. Studio Art Quilters Association had a large medium number of studio artists exhibiting their work, but alas, no photographs. While I understand their need to “protect” their work from Evil Unscrupulous…
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Long Beach Quilt Show–Old Quilts
First up at the Long Beach Show is wait. Wait until the show opens. I’d gotten there about 45 minutes early, and was about 12 from the front. By the time the show opened…
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Mimi Kirchner’s Dolls
Sometimes when the creative juices have just run dry, or I can’t get to my own creating, I enjoy visiting the blogs of artists who are good at what they do (probably from long…
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Quilts Back from Cathy
Always a good day when I can pick up my quilts from Cathy, my quilter. She did a great job. Now on to the bindings!
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Sewing on the Edge
Front of French Pincushion I read a lot of blogs, but I do have my favorites. One of them is Cindy’s Live a Colorful Life, which is always enjoyable to read. She talked about…
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Quilts in Canada
I just returned from a trip to eastern Canada and I was interested in the amount of quilts and quilting that I noticed in Nova Scotia. On our way to the Anne of Green…
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