I bought this quilt top in Tennessee…it’s hand pieced, a little funky. It’s a pattern none of us had ever seen before. But last night Nifty emailed me to look on page 78 of Scott Heffley’s book “Bold Improvisations” and sure enough there it is! Phew..time for a coffee
Category: Quilting
Gee’s Bend at Camp McDowell
So…I decided to send my self to camp. Quilt camp. Four days with two Gee’s Bend quilters and 16 other quilters, in Alabama. Ten days ago I hopped on an early morning train to Seattle, and the next day our little girl group of three took off for the “Deep South”…leaving the northwest behind…on our […]
A week Away…
I’m gearing up for a week away next week…going to Alabama to sew with a couple of Gee’s Bend quilters. This week I’m sinking into thinking about fabric and the creative experience ahead…here’s a little (4″x6″) piece I made for the ArtHouse Coop…(it’s called “Diet Day” and is part of a project for artists to […]
…On the Design Wall…
Here’s a quilting update..red and white quilt finished..design good, applique not so good, quilting good+… I’m slowly turning the Indian skirt I got at Value village into a log cabin-ish quilt…it was a bunch of strips sewn together which I took apart… then cut the strips in half… added strips from an old sheet… voila: […]
How to get to Cutler City
Nan turned me on to the Art House Co-op in Brooklyn last year and I’ve bought and sent in a couple of sketch books for their Sketchbook Project. But every week they have a free project…(one week it was to photograph your lunch at noon on a certain date and send them the photo so […]
Monday Blues…
Well, not exactly BLUES, but here it is…cold, raining, car in shop all day, head cold…so I’m working on the “wedding quilt” and it’s coming along…shhhh. It’s a surprise…
Quilt Update…
So much creative stuff to do, so little time…learning “brushes” on the iPad, sent off the little quilt for Baby Evelyn using left-over pieces of binding from the “Dwelling” project… and she seems to like it…(awww..so cute!) Today I have the Value-Village-sheet quilt on the design wall trying to decide if the zig-zags (I seem […]
And so the New Year BEGINS!
We’re back. What a terrific holiday we had, and what a lovely beginning to 2012 from the beach. I finished a few 2011 projects like the ugly fabric challenge quilt # 2 and the utopia quilt we hung up the Christmas present lantern from “Santa” took in the bright moonlight (sorry…cellphone photo) reflected in the […]
Christmas is coming…
Karen came for coffee Sunday and when she stepped in, and wanted to take off her shoes, she noticed something unusual… …one Rocksport, one Mephisto…oops. Well it was dark when she put her shoes on she said. We had a coffee and a chat and then she unveiled the beautiful beautiful old quilt squares she’d […]
“Treasures From the Trunk”
Eight women met Sylvia Dorney (Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest) late this afternoon at the Willamette Heritage Center to walk through the nice show of heritage quilts curated by quilt historian Mary Bywater Cross…up until December 24th, one in a series of shows focusing on valley women. Most of the quilts were completed AFTER the Oregon trail […]
On The Way 