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Good Remembrances of Things Past
Disclaimer: This post has nothing to do with quilting and contains not-so-great photos The American Cemetery in NormandyMy tradition on Memorial Day was to call my dad and brightly chirp "I remember...
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A June Blur
What happened to the month? Seriously, it's almost over! The month started with a liquid diet after my esophagael POEM procedure. Then I graduated to a full-liquid diet. And before I could get back...
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Picture, Just Pictures
A Quilt of Bicycling T-Shirts representing lots of miles and a couple of injuries and a lot of funThe Quilt I've been working on for Cristina is finally basted and ready for quilting, a process I enjoy...
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A Quilt For Cristina
"She smote the ground and a quilt appeared." No, of course that's not how it happens. There is so much thought that goes into the design and execution of any creative project. And when that project is...
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Do you have any quilting needs?
This is the question I have often asked my two grandsons, and they always answer with a sly smile and a no. Last weekend granddaughter Natalie, a senior at Crystal Lake Central HS, said she needed a...
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A Second Tribute to Things 8.5" x 11"
And of course by things I mean paper. My life as a student and as a teacher, a total of 51 years, was controlled by notebook paper. I always found the margins and the lines comforting. I liked that...
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Busy Performing Miracles
Last week I posted this picture as one of the piles I needed to sort through and put awayThese scraps are now 4 SewPowerful purse kits, and I know have enough to kit maybe 5 or 6 more. If you are...
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The Sew Powerful Initiative
How I have grown in my understanding and support of the Sew Powerful Initiative. And Sew Powerful is expanding its efforts, too. "Teach a person to fish" is the philosophy behind Sew Powerful. There...
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An Evolving Quilt
There is still another round of a darker grey and a darker lilac to add before making any further decisions. I love that Natalie trusts me to do what I want. But sometimes it takes a while to decide...
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One more SewPowerful Purse and a Tudor Tote
Here's one more purse for Sew Powerful in Zambia. It will join the other five and be mailed for the fall deadline. The next deadline is in early February - we'll see what life's rhythm allows for...
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Natalie's Quilt - Finally...
Natalie, a hs senior, showed me her newly-painted bedroom in July. She chose two soft shades of grey and purple and gave me permission to do whatever I wanted as long as the new quilt had the texture...
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The Past Week in Pictures
The bag bug has hit: a Mors bag and an ArabesqueAnother Mors bag honoring a friend from JordanSeveral piles of Tudor bags in various stages of constructionThe quilt I gave my sister - here it is in...
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A Significant Month
I'm about to have a 10-year studio anniversary. As my studio was being constructed, my college roommate Dodie was dying. The day of her memorial service in December 2016 was the first day that I was...
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A Special Month - part 2
Last year I learned that the average age of Nobel winner is 67. A year ago that seemed such an optimistic fact. Well, today I am 68. So it goes. No prize for me. We are in San Francisco and...
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Monday's Projects
Travel Agent's T-shirt Quilt in process - Four Tudors almost completed + two finished ones, three of them sold, and one for Wayne's daughter!Four RunArounds will come from these fabrics.
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Scraps and Substrates
Do you know this picture that hangs at the Art Institute - Chicago? It is That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door) by Ivan Albright. It was in the World Literature book I taught from for...
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On The Road and UFO's
We took a quick trip to Atlanta to visit John's daughter Julie. It's a 750-mile drive, most of which I traveled in my commute from Chicago to East Tennessee to go to Milligan College in the last 60's...
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Glampalot UFO: DONE!
June 2016 five of my Chicago guildsters and I went to Ann Arbor MI for Glampalot. You might remember that I went to Camp Stitchalot November 2014. Glampalot was Stitchalot on steroids. We had 6...
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A Travel Agent's T-Shirt Quilt
Judy is a travel agent who has been collecting t-shirst for quite a while. Several years ago she talked about wanting a t-shirt quilt. Last year she sent me an e-mail, just checking in. This fall...
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Lots o' Pictures
This cute little baby quilt is ready for gifting to a Benton Avenue grandchild.Scraps were used for the back. All from Zen Chic's Fragile collection. The Sloan Travel Bag, pattern by Sew Sweetness, is...
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