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 […]
Tag: Quilts
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 […]
Wonderful Weekend Part 3: Quilts!
LeeAnn’s a quilter so on Saturday, after a bit of show and tell, Sally arrived and the three of us went to work for the day. LeeAnn’s sewing room is in the daylight basement and is large and accommodating, with 3 sewing machines on hand…her nice new Bernina and her Grandma’s Viking (“the good kind […]
Wonderful Weekend Part 2: the Museums
One reason we went to Seattle was to see the Picasso show…a whole range of work remaining in his collection at his death. All the museums we visited this weekend have changed their photo policy, allowing photos in the museums…but NOT (as you might have guessed) at the Picasso show…so all I can show you […]
Saturday night at the ER
As I’ve listened to people comment on this blog they say “Oh you have too much fun” or “What a life you lead…all fun” and I think my impulse for happy and interesting talk is correct…but any life has other stuff too. Blogging and carrying a camera all the time makes you kind of into […]
Christmas Fun…
We went over to Linda and Greg’s House the other night and Greg told us about growing up in Coos Bay and how his mother (now over 90) had been active in Eastern Star and had a closet full of “formals”, in the old time sense of “formals.” When she moved to the valley she […]
Quilt thoughts…
Once you start thinking about (and working on) quilts…well, you find them everywhere. Sitting down with my quilt the other night (I’m alllllmost done with the hand quilting) we plugged in the netflix, “The Seven Year Itch…” (Marilyn Monroe) and on came the credits…OMG and then this morning in the paper was a nice article […]
15 Minutes a Day…
I’m a big believer in 15 minutes a day…that’s how I got painting again in the mid 1990’s after a 10 year hiatus (and opening a restaurant…that slowed me down a bit). Lately I’ve been looking at quilting blogs and have enjoyed Victoria’s 15 minute play. I decided to head to the sewing room daily […]
On The Way 