Home after a terrific beach sojourn…and I had to get a coffee immediately…of course… This morning after a lovely breakfast at Nan’s I headed over to Bush Barn to see how the show was coming…yesterday they painted the two walls red, as Kate and I had wanted, and today the quilts were going up… Here’s […]
Category: Quilting
Just a Puttering Day…
The end of real summer…Labor Day coming up…and today was the day we’ll dream of come icey January… But it started cloudy and R was thinking “hmmm…maybe I’ll paint the garage door”… so he did…one more coat tomorrow meanwhile I was in the studio with my trusty featherweight (it was my Mom’s)… finishing a baby […]
The Quilt Roundup…Part One
Kate Speckman and I are curating a show of quilts at Bush Barn Art Center opening September 9th (“Bits and Pieces: Intuitive Quilting from the Pacific Northwest”, which will feature three quilts by the Gee’s Bend Quilt Collective, quilts by 5 invited quilters, and quilts by 6 juried entrants. To that end I’ve begun rounding […]
Making Things…
I went out to coffee with a bunch of artists the other day… and among the topics we talked about was the need to make things…a feeling I can identify from my earliest years. Today I sat in the back garden avoiding the heat and finishing the red and white quilt while also looking at […]
The Quilt Show in Sisters
So…the last 4th of July firecracker had hardly sounded when the REBELS scooped me up and we were off to Sisters for three days of quilting, quilts and fun. I was signed up for a class with the ladies from Gee’s Bend and had a sack of fabric ready to take… The first night though, […]
Road Trip #2…The Quilts…
As well as touring us around town, Linnea toured us through her family quilt collection. How amazing to have things made by grandmothers and great grandmothers. Treasures. Here is Harriet Hartford, Linnea’s paternal great grandmother, pictured here with her grand daughter Ruth. Ruth, about 2 in this photo, died at age 3. and here’s the […]
Marie Watt…revisited…
I was thinking about Marie Watt today, and the fun I had in the fall of 2009 working with people in the Willamette community to help put together a piece that would eventually hang in Ford Hall on campus (she set it up like a “quilting bee” and students, administrators, and “others”…like me…came) that’s Marie […]
The Antidote to Worms…
I spoke to LeeAnn on the phone tonight and she suggested a few things I might want to put on my blog instead of worms…like quilts (secretly I really liked the worms…). I’ve been sitting with my Mom this week quilting on the Gee’s Bend quilt I made in 2009 in Sisters…I LOVE the 50’s […]
Surprise #2!
…and I was just recovering from the balloons when Bru arrived with a box from LeeAnn…SOLIDS! All shirts…I had fun folding them and got an idea for the new quilt!
The OTHER Thing in Tillamook…
Being a quilter I was anxious to visit the Latimer Quilt & Textile Center in Tillamook, so after we saw the murals we went out to the center, and though they offer groups and classes in weaving and spinning as well (one lady was actually carding and spinning the cotton from pill bottles…creative reuse!!!), we […]
On The Way 