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Changing Gears
Rehabbing the broken humerus has allowed me to do some sewing and simple cutting. This is my quarantine/rehab quilt.Lots of greys and low-volume prints from Cotton + Steel. Each block has a 2.5”...
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August: A Purse a Day
I've finally gotten started with purses for Sew Powerful again. It's been 6 months since I have made any, and it feels good to look outward and get back into the swing of charitable sewing. It's going...
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August 17 and right on my purse target!
After months of limited sewing, it feels so good to be productive. July for the past couple of years has been a purse a day. But this year I needed to wait until August. So far, so good. The...
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Five Purple Sister/Purses
Big graphic prints work well for the flaps of these cross-body bags. And under each flap there's a surprise fabric, And in each purse there's a surprise...
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Mission Accomplished
The last purses for this month are finished! I bought this fabric for a tote that never got made, and it's perfect for these purses. Now? Time to clean the studio and work on some quilts. But I...
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19 Years after 9/11
So hard to believe that 9/11 was nineteen years ago. I still haven't gotten started on the notecards for each purse, but I do have a plan! And I have been working in the studio happily, Having both...
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A Completed Quilt
It’s been quite a while since I’ve been able to say or write these words. This bed-size quilt is almost a square and was tailor-made for grandson #4. His bedroom is often too hot, so this quilt is...
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Scrap Control
Ok, ok - this doesn’t look horrible. However, there’s a big basket of scraps in my bathroom and a huge pile that didn’t even make it into any of these containers. In preparation for a scrap...
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Project Dreams
I’m in the best space - purses are done for the time being, I just made a pile of masks, the studio is clean, I’m finishing a hand project and happy to be starting a new one, and I have several...
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On Its Way to Oregon
Look how nicely this quilt turned out! Quilty Eileen made a quilt from this pattern years ago - it's a clever way to make hexies without using Y seams. I had a Layer Cake of the Moda Thrive fabrics...
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My Guest Appearance on the Sew Powerful Podcast
In 2015 I made a couple of Sew Powerful purses. The mission of resonated with me then and has continued to impress and inspire me. The Sew Powerful initiative focuses on menstrual hygiene to promote...
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All Projects, Great and Small
The beauty of having such a great studio is that I can work on several things at once - piles of future projects, fabrics I want to do something with, patterns with fabrics already chosen. And I can...
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From Sad to Happy: Two projects
We know life is about births and deaths. And we assume a natural order: people die when they are old. In March an 8-year old died suddenly.And a family, both immediate and extended grieves. My...
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An Odd Sort of Panic and New Mantra
When I was teaching I would leave for school early, like 5:30, and then run up to the third floor of Hyde Park HS chanting, "Papers to grade, Papers to grade, I still have more papers to grade."...
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Get Happy! No. 4
What a winning combination of fabrics and pattern! I made two of these for nieces who both had quarantine babies last spring. One niece loved hers so much that she commissioned one more for her...
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Surprise No. 1: For Cristina and Joe
You know how you want to do something so special for someone and sometimes get a bit paralyzed in getting started? I knew Cristina and Joe were getting married at some point, and I knew I wanted to...
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Up Next...
Here are the leftover peppered shot cottons from Cristina’s quilt. It’s pin-basted and batted with wool. The backing is a white and black print that features the name of every color in the world....
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Surprises #2 and #3 and #4
Sometimes I love someone so much that I have to make them something. When there are several people who love someone so much, the result is breathtaking. This quilt is a series of raspberry kiss...
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Not a Christmas Present
All the grandkids have quilts. And now we’re on the second round since most of them are adults. Jack, on the left, is a senior at the U of I. He is smart, personable, and a great kid. This year...
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