After watering the white garden this morning, I was sitting on the deck quilting away on the State of Oregon quilt and musing about why I like hand quilting so much. I got out the first quilt I hand quilted and looked at it remembering that as I started, I didn’t know any of the […]
Tag: Quilts
The Alligator Quilt
I took the collaboration quilt over to Kay’s today so she can work on it for a while, and got to see the alligator quilt in process…looking good
Project Space 3
Today I moved into PS 3 where I’ll work for a month with other artists including Corrie Loomis-Dietz, Paula Booth, Barbara Rowland. I’ll have two projects going which will include the old double wedding ring top: (which looks better in this photo than in real life…) which I plan to cut up and reassemble without […]
Quilts: The State of Oregon
Well I finished the State of Oregon quilt top yesterday and put it together today. It looks a bit overwhelming at this point so I’ll just show you some details. Here’s a bit of western Oregon and Crater Lake: Here’s the Willamette Valley and the Coast Range/beach/ocean: It will look better when it’s quilted (I […]
Quilt Retreat, Day Four
We finished!! though it just about killed us off. The pre-elderly can’t really sew for 9 hours…Kay had to take a rest “cure” this morning and so did Jack… we tidied up and checked progress on the other quilts:
Quilt retreat, Day 3
We really worked, and the method became very interesting. I would work on the quilt awhile, then Kay, then me etc. Our starting place was a Rosie Lee Tompkins quilt Yesterday, day 3, we worked about nine hours and Kay got up early to do the very last bit, which she’s working oneven as I […]
Quilting Time…
Well the Seattle quilters stopped by briefly on their way to Sisters for the big week of classes and the quilt show…just to say hi since I’m not going with them this year but quilting is the week’s activity for me too. After a quick visit to the carwash (I LOVE the carwash) I took […]
The Reason to Make Baby Quilts…
. Meet Sawyer on the quilt I made for him last summer..isn’t he too much!? (The quilt is made out of men’s shirts.)
The Collaboration Quilts…
I think I mentioned that Kay and I are having a small show of quilts in October. She has a quilt I like, and I have a quilt she likes. Today we traded and I will “respond” to her quilt, and she to mine. Then together we will collaborate on a big quilt…so, to recap, […]
Gwen Marston at The Stitchin’ Post
Last Sunday four Seattle-ites swooped into town and we all took off east over the mountains for a two day workshop with famous quilter Gwen Marston. She was teaching the workshop in the back room at the WONDERFUL Sisters’ fabric shop called The Stitchin’ Post. After a bit of a lecture and “show and tell” […]
On The Way 