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My Curve is Basted
This piece is now 32" x 32" and ready for some hand work. Some echo quilting in the background and something in the curves. I like this. I'm not sure what the orientation should be. Maybe I'll...
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Camp Stitchalot - Part 2
Carolyn Friedlander is a young quilter, an architect by trade, whose fabric designs and now new book, are hot hot hot. The way some of my guild members throw around the names of fabric designers...
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Things with Straps
This A Cute Bag is for my daughter-in-law Jeannine. She picked the fabrics, and this is perfect for her. I worked on it yesterday, thinking I was getting a head start on the holidays since I have all...
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Meeting Two Personal Heroes
Wow, that sounds dramatic, doesn't it? But Camp Stitchalot did allow me to work with and watch two important quit bloggers who have greatly influenced my attitude towards quilting. Rossie...
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Little Wallet Goodness
Let's be clear. This isn't a wallet to carry every card and all the cash you have. This wallet will hold a bit of paper money, a couple of coins, a credit card or two, and a driver's license. And it's...
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Hi Ho Hi Ho...
We leave tomorrow morning for a 12-day Panama Canal transit cruise - first time we have traveled in over 18 months. John's excited - well, it is a jazz cruise. And I have my iPad loaded with books that...
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Scattered
Me. The studio. Projects. The studio carpet was cleaned while we were gone, which meant packing everything away. So I am still finding where I put things, like my walking foot (found it - phew...)....
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In the Bleak Midwinter...
Do you know this hymn? It's a Christina Rossetti Poem - lovely, simple, and not at all sad. My mom died earlier this week from pneumonia after over four years of dementia/Alzheimer's. She went...
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A Year's End
This is the year that my patience was tested. I had to constantly quiet the ants in my pants and learn to be quiet and peaceful while sitting with my parents. This quilt that John and I slept under...
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Melancholy Start to a New Year
What peace to know my mom is at peace. My family is I know looking forward to January 10, her memorial service, and the closure it will bring. I worked through my dad's death by focusing on baby...
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An Important Finish
I started quilting this the week before Christmas, just as my mom developed pneumonia. I took this quilt with me when I went to Lombard and sat. After she died on December 22, the process of holding...
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Victorian Shadowbox for the Aged P's
When I was a novice quilter, back in the late 80's, I depended on television to learn. Eleanor Burns's TV show was excellent for this, and to this day I recommend Quilt In A Day books and patterns to...
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Victorian Shadowbox: Ready for the next 25 years!
When students are learning English as a Second Language, they are classified as ELL's - emerging language learners. This quilt I made when I was an EQM - an emerging quilt maker. My primitve basting...
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Eloise Emma has arrived!
My niece had her second child, little Eloise Emma, Friday. Eloise was born in Brooklyn and will join her brother Henry, mother Jen and father Tim. ***cue The Circle of Life from Lion King***...
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An Arabesque Sort of Week
I have been in the mood to work on a purse, an Arabesque by Sara Lawson at Sew Sweetness. The one Arabesque that I have loved and (gently) used I would up selling to someone for a Christmas gift. It...
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Five Pretty Purses, all in a row...
Five bags are completed. And one more is in process. I never played with dolls when I was little. Guess I'm making up for it now by playing with purses...My favorite - and one I am hoping to keep....
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Quilting Alchemy on a Snowy Day
The purse for loving friend Nancy is complete. And while there are things I should do, what's calling me very very loudly is the charm pack of the complete collection of Carolyn Friedlander's Doe...
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A Bag, a Pillow, and a Major Clean-up
My six Arabesque bags were fun to do. I still have piles of fabrics on the floor which would be perfect for this pattern. Buddy Melissa gave me a charm pack of Doe, a new fabric line by Carolyn...
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It's All About The ... COMMA!
I made a similar Molly Market Tote Bag last year - see it here - but I wound up giving it as a Christmas present to Meg, our nephew's wife who lives in London. I didn't give it to her until I was...
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Getting Ready for QuiltCon 2015
The Modern Quilt Guild is holding its second convention in Austin, Texas this week. QuiltCon 2013 was the best quilting experience ever, and I am thrilled to be returning to Austin for QuiltCon 2015....
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