Today is the tail-end of National Quilting Month, and here’s what quilting and I have done together. My cousin Michelle asked me to create two wall hangings from state bird blocks embroidered by her mother. This is my Aunt Lee who turns 86 on April 13th, two days after my birthday. She stitched the blocks […]
Archives for March 2017
A Quilt For Conor
When I attended the IQA show in Houston last October, I ran into a new vendor called Patternjam. (Love the name). The company does pre-printed panels for you to quilt, which you can personalize. This past Christmas I quilted a panel purchased from Keepsake Quilting for my nephew Nick’s youngest son who was born right […]
Master Art Series Challenge–It’s On!
During last year’s workshop, one of the exercises was to choose two pieces of painted fabric that complemented one another in style or color. Then we were to interpret the fabrics through quilting, while changing the character of the design. We started in class, and I just finished the quilting this week. Now the really […]
Yachats–Gem of the Oregon Coast
Mike and I spent the past weekend in Yachats to see the Gems of the Ocean quilt show and visit a town and part of the coast I haven’t been to in probably nine years. I was impressed with the caliber of the quilts juried in. There were even three international entries, two from Belgium […]
Juried In!
After covering the winners for six years in a row for American Quilter magazine at the well-known AQS show in Paducah, Kentucky I’m excited to say my quilt “Z is for Zinnia, C is for Cosmos” was juried into the show to take place in April. So while I won’t be there in person, I’ll […]
Surprising Auguste Rodin
Yesterday I attended a docent tour in French of Rodin: The Human Experience exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. While I have been to the Rodin Museum in Paris and studied his work in a modern art course while living in France, here are a few things I learned yesterday that I had never heard […]
Cool Tools!
I discovered some nifty items among the vendors at my last two quilt shows and want to pass them on to you. Here are the first three. I will have two more as soon as I can find them! I bought them to use for my next big project, but I don’t know where they […]
