Several years ago, we started decorating our front porch with giant spiders, a huge web, and crows above the doorway. On Halloween night we set up a bubble machine lit up by a strobe light. The bubbles fly all over the neighborhood, needless to say, attracting a lot of trick-or-treaters. Since then, little by little, […]
Archives for October 2015
Outdoor Art and then some
Twice a week I walk three-and-one-half miles round trip to the gym where I do strength training, passing Portland State University each way. A few weeks ago, I noticed workers peeling up the lawn and laying out lines in an empty, grassy area of the university’s grounds. Next concrete was poured and sprinklers installed to […]
Make Cords By Hand and Machine
I”m teaching a one-day workshop at The Oregon Garden’s Stitches in Bloom show on January 21, 2016 in Silverton, Oregon called Accenting With Creative Cords. We’ll be making a variety of cords, spending the morning making them by hand and the afternoon by machine. When I attended London City and Guilds, we spent six months […]
More Radical Elements
“Quirky Quilts Inspired By the Periodic Table” is the title of an article in Hyperallergic by Claire Voon. She states, “quilting meets chemistry” in an array of 40 quilts that “expand the definition of art quilting.” It’s a great article, well illustrated with photos, in which Voon takes a look at a number of quilts […]
Learn the How-tos of Quilt Judging
Do you enter judged quilt shows? Are you interested in becoming a quilt judge yourself? Are you responsible for setting up and running your guild show? If any one or all three of these describe you, I have a two-day quilt judging seminar coming up here in the Pacific Northwest at the Clark County Quilters’ […]
