Memorial day weekend, the travel quilts are finished, back to work on the show quilts…low blogging energy today…so…here’s the “ugly Fabric Challenge” quilt which I quilted in the car down to and back from Asilomar. Twice as year somebody in the quilt group produces some less-than-ideal fabric, everybody gets a piece and goes away and […]
Back today after a week away…Carol and I took a road trip down to the Monterey area to Pacific Grove, location of the beautiful Julia Morgan-designed conference center Asilomar (which means refuge by the sea). Built originally for the YWCA, it now functions as a site for a variety of conferences in a continuous rotation. […]
A busy week here getting ready to head out…some ukulele playing in Monterey, a stop in Sonoma to look at quilts, departure is imminent. I’ll just leave you with a few little Louis Bunce gouaches we ran across. More news from the road…. rescue quilt almost done… Bye bye…
The leitmotif (recurring theme) in my life these days is the sewing, as I get ready for two quilt shows this fall. I sew in the car, I sew in the morning, the afternoon, the evening, occasionally in bed. I have a little spot staked out on the couch that catches the bright daylight and […]
The lovely Tuesday quilt group met this morning at Lynda’s…always fascinating. She has with an eye and a sensibility close to my own. She has new quilts, collects old weird quilt tops that maybe have something quirky about them, and makes interesting combinations…always. Here’s what we were looking at today…her own quilt on the bed…I […]
A quick note on the ugly fabric challenge of last June…Kathleen gave us each a piece of this fabric, (well…not each of us, because a few people found the fabric a little overwhelming…) with the challenge that we needed to bring back a finished quilt in December. So yesterday we met at our house for […]
The “fall fix-up” around here has taken a lot of our time and energy…my quilting time has been limited, plus the sewing room was re-worked…(it was kind of a mess) so after I cleaned out the flat file and it went to the basement, the painters came… I took the glass doors off the white […]
I first knew Kate Speckman as an artist. Some years ago I bought a small black and white clay house she made, and sent it to a friend in Italy. Then I knew Kate as an energetic events manager, a talented and organized volunteer arts administrator, a quilter, a friend. In 2011 we co-curated a […]
As my quilting “practice” takes up more space in my life, things shift and change a little (art is still number one though…new studio coming on line in October!). I find I really like having a “vintage” quilt to work on…off and on…and this weekend I finished up the quilt-top I got in Tennessee a […]
Kate and I agreed to do the Moda block-a-month challenge mostly as a way to see each other at least once a month and have a coffee! We picked up our first block pattern and fabric Friday and then sat in the sun a drank coffee…and then R and I came away to the beach […]
On The Way 