Boy I just haven’t had time to write lately…but I’ve been doing the usual stuff…sewing, painting, birthday, beach, gardens…etc. No words tonight, just some images to catch me up.
Tag: quilting
Quilt Story
We’re heading up the freeway today to deliver Sidney’s quilt…here’s the narrative…idea borrowed from Eleanor McCain…
QUILTOPIA!!!
Wow…what a fun day! (Sunny, bright…bike ride.) Then Sharon and I headed off to the Quiltopia Cottage Tour, organized by Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest…our local Salem quilt shop. First stop was Melanie and Michael Freeman’s house…old friends, former neighbors on Court Street, Melanie started quilting after her daughter took a quilt camp in 5th grade and […]
Sewing Circle…
ANOTHER interesting time at Project Space this year, watching work unfold, working steadily myself, exchanging ideas. My own work is winding down and I’m finishing my “set” of squares, framing them up, getting ready for the “opening” of our one week show. If you are downtown on first Wednesday (August 7th) 5-8 p.m., come by […]
A Visit to Cynthia…
Quilter Cynthia Wilcox was one of my very first quilting mentors. She taught me a lot, and patiently looked at my puny first efforts, always adding encouraging comments. I went to her studio several times and we would just “play” with scraps…I consider those moments to have been seriously important to the way I work. […]
Obsessed by Pattern
I’ve always been a little obsessed by pattern. In fabric, floors, clouds, food…the patterns always emerge. One part of quilting I love is just looking at the fabrics and taking all the patterns in… Part of getting back into the studio after a hiatus is looking at past work… …and I immediately saw all the […]
Seeking Order
Neither art-making nor quilting, my two main endeavors these days, are orderly processes for me. (I AM orderly in the kitchen…learned behavior after over a decade in a restaurant kitchen…but in other work, my work-space becomes something of a disaster area. I’ve come to believe that if it isn’t a mess, nothing good will come […]
Notes From the Sewing Room Floor
Well…not the REAL sewing room. The real sewing room is upstairs, and I can’t get there right now…so in the spirit of making do, I moved my machine, ironing board and piles of stuff down to the main floor. (Note: the person I live with is very tolerant…) I set up shop in “the back […]
TOO MUCH FUN…
So Friday we headed out to the beach through the fog and rain… …luckily I’ve discovered I can sew while Roger drives…(this is not quite as bad as when I just nap, but it keeps me pretty quiet…) and Friday night we went to a sort-of-strange-but-ultimately-hilarious ukulele concert by an Italian guy who calls himself […]
On The Way 