There’s nothing like settling in on a winter evening in a big comfy chair, pulling a quilt onto your lap and just quilting away for an hour or two. It is possibly one of life’s most calming activities (along with freecell). Just now I’m working on a quilt which combines some elegant Dutch fabric (the […]
Category: Quilting
Sunflower Quilt
I went to a quilt show in Aurora in 2006 and took a bunch of photos. Yesterday I found the program from the show and the info on this beautiful quilt. “Sunflower, by Matilda Knight Stauffer, first wife of Jacob Satuffer. We know the quilt was finished before 1867 because Matilda died giving birth to […]
Marie Watt and Ford Hall
Today a new classroom building (oops–I didn’t photo the building) was dedicated on the Willamette campus. The building was built with funding from major benefactor Hallie Ford and her portrait (by Portland artist Paul Missal) hangs in the lobby: Today, though, I wasn’t there to attend the ceremony, but rather to join artist Marie Watt’s […]
The Shirt Quilt
Today I finished step one, two and three of the next quilt (or now I’m thinking the next 2 quilts): Cut up the shirts and remove all the buttons: stop for a coffee fold up the fabric and make all the left-over seams into some cool looking balls (I don’t have ANY idea what you […]
The Height of Summer
This is it–the middle of the summer and a big heat wave coming. Sharon called and said to come get some dahlias as they don’t like the heat coming toward us (102) so I went over early and we picked a bouquet to take to my Mom, a lover of pink. Sharon has rigged up […]
Quilts in Sisters, OR
Last week was quilt week in Sisters, OR, culminating in the big outdoor quilt show Saturday. I drove over Wednesday with sister-in-law LeeAnn and quilting buddy Cynthia for some workshops and some fun. We stayed at Long Hollow Ranch about 12 miles outside of Sisters. It’s an old farm converted to a B&B with the […]
The New Quilt
I was looking at Cynthia’s blog today and saw her newest, lovely, mostly-white quilt, and thought maybe I’d post something on the quilt I’ve been working on–which is ALMOST finished. The piece is quilted by hand and, as you can see, involved a lot of straight lines (I used the fabric as a quilting guide). […]
ANOTHER Thanksgiving Tradition
Well the last few years on the friday after Thanksgiving, LeeAnn and I have gone to Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest (our wonderful local quilting store) to get our “Turkey Pops”!! These are Tootsie rolls each with a little felt turkey on it and when you choose one and remove the turkey–VOILA–there’s a real treat, a little […]
Seattle Quilts
Last weekend Cynthia and I went to Seattle to see the Pacific Northwest Quiltfest put on by the Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters at the convention center. There were hundreds of entries in a variety of categories but as is often the case for me, the vintage quilts were the stars. These were part of […]
Living the Creative Life: Cynthia Wilcox II
Yesterday I went out to Cynthia’s. It was “Groop” day, the day once a month that we get together to talk and think about quilting. It was cold and rainy up the Santiam yesterday–not at all like spring. Inside the studio though it was all color and warmth. The best thing about visiting the work […]
On The Way 