Greetings friends. I was somewhat dumbstruck this morning when I realized August was history. September hours begin tomorrow at the food cart, school starts next weeks for the grands, I bought a boiled wool sweater. Oh yes I did. I saw it coming. This summer was hot but it was the summer we finally got […]
Category: Quilting
Puzzling
The year began “on the edge” at the beach, with a beautiful clear and bright day…sun pouring into the beach house, shining off the bay…it felt like California… But that was only New Year’s Day, and quickly it became the usual Oregon winter… So we stayed cozy in front of the fire… and I got […]
Quiltopia!
This Friday and Saturday (November 5th and 6th) the Willamette Heritage Center (1313 SE Mill St SE) will be hosting Quiltopia, 2021. Like everything else, the popular annual exhibit was cancelled in 2020, but is back this year! Because my painting studio is part of the Studios at the Mill (at the Willamette Heritage Center) […]
The Fate of Quilts
The fate of many quilts is not unlike the two I received from a friend…she thought they were too far gone but that maybe I would want to do something with them. She was right, they are pretty far gone…at least for the work I do and the time I have to do it in. […]
The Luxury of Gathering
As we head into fall I’ve been thinking about the solitary winter ahead. Gathering now seems like an unbelievable luxury. Hugging is a slim memory. Yesterday a small gathering was had when George and Aaron and Jackie met us at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to see the Clifford Gleason exhibition (Clifford Gleason: The […]
Damn It
This would have been the Garden Tour day, Patrick’s wedding in Idaho, tomorrow the kids and the grands would have arrived for the summer. The world would not be in turmoil and contaminated…if only…if only… So this post is for my reading group. We are three…one in Denver, one in Santa Fe, and me. We […]
Still Home…You?
Nancy sent me this lovely hand-made birthday card that is an image for our times (thank you Nancy!)… But to back track…we went to the beach Saturday for my birthday, and to clean out the pantry and retrieve some toilet paper (who is it that HAS all the toilet paper I wonder?). In spite of […]
PLAID!
My quilt group meets every month. Usually its sewing, chatting, idea sharing through books, magazines, talking, drinking coffee, a little snack maybe…but twice a year there is the challenge reveal. We reveal the results of the twice yearly challenge, discuss the challenge coming up, and have lunch. One challenge is in December, one in June…and […]
Making
There is a week between delivering my work to the Minthorne Gallery at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and my actually seeing the exhibit up on the walls. A week for the curator, Sarah Cuevas, to arrange, decide, place. I’ll see the exhibit (“Little Me”) in place next Monday when the curtain goes up […]
Quilt Day
For some years the first Tuesday of the month has meant gathering at one house or another with a group of women I’ve come to know pretty well. We are very different from one another in many ways but we are all daughters, most of us are mothers, some of us are grandmothers, some are […]
On The Way 