Greetings friends. I was somewhat dumbstruck this morning when I realized August was history. September hours begin tomorrow at the food cart, school starts next weeks for the grands, I bought a boiled wool sweater. Oh yes I did. I saw it coming. This summer was hot but it was the summer we finally got […]
Tag: Quilts
Quiltopia!
This Friday and Saturday (November 5th and 6th) the Willamette Heritage Center (1313 SE Mill St SE) will be hosting Quiltopia, 2021. Like everything else, the popular annual exhibit was cancelled in 2020, but is back this year! Because my painting studio is part of the Studios at the Mill (at the Willamette Heritage Center) […]
On the Way?
So we were having lunch the other day at Taproot when R nudged me and pointed…”On the Way”…oh good lord, I haven’t blogged in MONTHS! I doubt anybody is out there. ..well you’re there, but maybe not HERE? It isn’t so much that I have nothing to say…but that the things I’m thinking about are […]
Making
There is a week between delivering my work to the Minthorne Gallery at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and my actually seeing the exhibit up on the walls. A week for the curator, Sarah Cuevas, to arrange, decide, place. I’ll see the exhibit (“Little Me”) in place next Monday when the curtain goes up […]
Spring Quilt Season
I was looking at the quilts I’ve been working on since January and they look a bit, well… bland.. so I think I need to get some color into the spring work…red and white maybe? orange? Pink? or maybe revisit the nine-patches from our fall vacation? and then which rescue to go for next, once […]
Sidney Day…
the usual blend of magic and fun. The day began with a quick chat before the parents headed to work when suddenly Zach noticed that a deer was staring right at us… and then it started to rain and POUR, so the projected park visit was out. Sidney gave me some advice on the last […]
Kate Speckman at The ANNEX
Salem artist/quilter Kate Speckman is doing a five week AIR at The Annex in Salem, She is interested in setting aside some time to think about future quilting projects, especially delving into the ideas of traditional patterns from carpets and how this might translate into her quilting work. She got her sewing machine set up […]
The Varied Life
I keep waiting for a coherent body of photos, events, thoughts to surface (other than the car wash)…to no avail. I guess the life I’m leading is chaotic these days, so lets go anyway…we left the car wash and headed east …first stop Edgefield, a destination spot in a former poor farm…odd but true, and […]
Clay Lohman at JSMA
We were heading to Eugene and wanted to see Clay Lohman’s installation “Camo Cubes” at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon. Parking is very limited and we had heard that we might apply for “movie star” parking due to my knee recuperation..What a delight to drive up and find… We […]
Red and White Quilts
Over the weekend when I was in the “sewing cottage” I got looking at some weird old Red & White blocks I had put up on the design wall… and that reminded me of the terrific catalog of the amazingly beautiful show of red and white quilts at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC in […]