Apparently, even though some of us are still in a summer mood, FALL IS HERE. How do I know??? Suddenly bins of things are at the store… and if I thought those were just SUMMER punkins, there are other clues… uh oh…and then something catches my eye and it isn’t fresh berries and butter lettuce… […]
Last spring I went to a quilt romp in Alabama with a bunch of talented quilters. Victoria Findlay Wolfe was there, and she gave a bunch of us each one of her “Virgin of Guadalupe” originals (her own design) she’s had printed at Spoonflower. Here are a bunch of them… As the summer wanes I […]
Up until 2010, Labor Day meant back to school at our house, but now it just means end of summer bounty and weather, and fall still ahead to look forward to.
The first stop on the quilting tour last week took us to the Bellevue Art Museum where there is a wonderful show of the collection of African American quilts gathered by Corrine Riley…and they were pretty inspirational… with this as one of my favorites… and that was a pretty hard choice, as they were all […]
R is high-functioning, as you know. Heat doesn’t seem to stop him. He doesn’t sit around complaining like some of us (ahem)…he just keeps on going. Here he is dancing with his cousin Lisa at Zach’s wedding (102 AT LEAST!) (The two of them used to write novels together when they were growing up in […]
Friday I finished the little quilt top I’ve been working on down at Project Space (now to actually QUILT it…) and then I went to CAMP…for an hour. I visited the Art Camp held at Willamette University and watched with interest as the campers worked on small wax pieces. They were FEARLESS and willing to […]
Howard and Amy took a trip on the ship Infinity early in the spring through the Panama Canal, and they told me there was a David Hockney on board someplace. When we boarded I asked at the desk for a list of the art on board and I was told “That does not exist, Madam”. […]
(and I don’t mean vitamins)…Laura suggested that we each make one small piece a day for a month and I (what was I thinking???) agreed. Mine are fabric/quilt oriented and I’ve had a LOT of fun with them. They’re portable, serendipitous, funny, sad. Here’s a few: (I have 27 completed as of this writing…) […]
I had a great one and am wishing all my motherly readers did too. Mine began with breakfast on the deck while I contemplated the Tennessee Goodwill shirts…hmmm….hard to image the quilt this will become… flowers were brought from the Dad in question… and when I went to get the mail I noticed a photo […]
Dorothy (as we call the lady in our GPS, thanks to Richard and Carol) took us STRAIGHT to the beach Friday… stopping only long enough for a glass of wine and a few “small plates” at the Inn at Spanish Head (where we were supervised closely)… and some veg. Saturday dawned warm and sunny and […]
On The Way 