Posting on blogs late at night is probably like writing emails when you’re mad…it shouldn’t be done…tired, all the events of the day swirling…too tired to edit… caught in a maelstrom of stitches… roaring off to bed…
Category: Art work
Carwash Fun…
The other day Kate told me that if I paid for the most EXPENSIVE wash I could get some colored soap…so we checked it out. It started like the usual car wash… with my favorite elements… and THEN…woohoo… Dorothy (our GPS) was speechless… then the rinse… and we were shoved out the back…FUN!!!! So VISUALLY […]
Obsessed by Pattern
I’ve always been a little obsessed by pattern. In fabric, floors, clouds, food…the patterns always emerge. One part of quilting I love is just looking at the fabrics and taking all the patterns in… Part of getting back into the studio after a hiatus is looking at past work… …and I immediately saw all the […]
A museum weekend…
It was a museum weekend for our house…I’m sure you’ve seen the new banner installed on the west side of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art… and Saturday our family came down to see the show…Bruce and LeeAnn from Seattle, Doug, Marie, Emma and Finley from Portland, and Z & A. …and then home for […]
BE MINE!
Hey readers…here’s a recent perfect Valentine’s coffee…wish I was sitting across from you sipping the beautiful brew…(I raise my cup)… …but instead I’m doing stuff like this: using Borax and a “color remover thingie” (Mary’s technical term) to get out the red bleed on the recovery quilt, registering my lost baby quilt (thanks to Bill […]
Quilt News…the Good News First…
I finished the “recovery quilt”…(even though the recovery itself lags behind…)! I started the quilt in August using some hand-dyed fabrics from Mary and a sheet from Value Village… I added on to it this fall until it was big enough to be a “real” quilt… …and then started quilting it. For me only, the […]
BUSY WEEK…
We zoomed to Portland this past week for a sleep-over…the weather was mostly like that pictured in this Michael Brophy painting… but spirits were high anyway. We visited Sara, checked in to our hotel of choice and headed over to Henk’s opening at Laura Russo. The paintings are gorgeous, big, full of drama. (As it […]
1% for ART!
In 1975 our state mandated that 1% of the cost of every new building (or major rehab) be spent on art for that building. This results in two very good things: #1 it assures quality art contemporary to each building to enhance the building itself and #2 it builds a strong collection, long term, for […]
The Usual Pursuits…
Heading out to my studio used to just be a part of most days, but a couple of months ago I was side-lined for a bit by some foot surgery. Yesterday I made the first trip back to the studio since November…down my nice ramp…and up the steps… into my sweet little studio, amazing myself […]
On The Way 