The last of the doll quilts delivered today…I figured if they don’t sell I’ll have a bunch of funky place mats…for sort of a crazy-quilt table! “Vintage Fun” “For Agnes” “Double” and the larger “Crow” so, NOW, finally…into the studio I go…
Tag: Quilts
The Doll Quilts…
Did you ever agree to do something that was MONTHS away, sounded easy? I did…and then promptly forgot I had agreed to make 12 doll quilts for Bush Barn Christmas festival. Oops. Consequently I’m chained to my sewing machine and cranking them out…here’s what I’ve got so far: Eastern Oregon…a section I cut out of […]
Hanging Out in Portland…
BEFORE I tell you about “artweek,” I thought I’d point out the seriously best ice cream I’ve had in ages, which you must go taste immediately at Salt & Straw, 2035 NE Alberta… even though this picture isn’t very appetizingly good because I started eating BEFORE I took the picture… Cheryl (my future co-mother-in-law) and […]
Bits and Beauties
Saturday before we headed out we went by Bush Barn to take another look at the Bits and Pieces show without the crowd… Here’s Andrea Balosky’s gorgeous Dahlia Rag on the red wall as you come upstairs… and here are a views round and about… here’s Ross’ quilt with a detail of the stars…from a […]
Patterns: Quilts and Gardens
My curatorial career is coming to it’s apex this week while both shows I have recently curated are on view (“Lord and Schryver” at the Hallie Ford Museum…closing September 18th… and “Bits and Pieces” at Salem Art Association’s AN Bush Gallery, up until mid October). Roger suggested this morning that there are certain similarities between […]
Bits and Pieces: The Opening
Our quilt show “Bits and Pieces” opened Friday night…and it was total fun. As you come up the stairs we see Kay Worthington’s quilt, and then into the gallery with Andrea Balosky’s huge Dahlia Rag at the far end… LeeAnn’s quilts looked smashing, and Local quilter Joanna Price was excited to have a piece in […]
Bits and Pieces: the Show Goes Up
Home after a terrific beach sojourn…and I had to get a coffee immediately…of course… This morning after a lovely breakfast at Nan’s I headed over to Bush Barn to see how the show was coming…yesterday they painted the two walls red, as Kate and I had wanted, and today the quilts were going up… Here’s […]
The Quilt Roundup…Part One
Kate Speckman and I are curating a show of quilts at Bush Barn Art Center opening September 9th (“Bits and Pieces: Intuitive Quilting from the Pacific Northwest”, which will feature three quilts by the Gee’s Bend Quilt Collective, quilts by 5 invited quilters, and quilts by 6 juried entrants. To that end I’ve begun rounding […]
Making Things…
I went out to coffee with a bunch of artists the other day… and among the topics we talked about was the need to make things…a feeling I can identify from my earliest years. Today I sat in the back garden avoiding the heat and finishing the red and white quilt while also looking at […]
The Quilt Show in Sisters
So…the last 4th of July firecracker had hardly sounded when the REBELS scooped me up and we were off to Sisters for three days of quilting, quilts and fun. I was signed up for a class with the ladies from Gee’s Bend and had a sack of fabric ready to take… The first night though, […]
On The Way 