This post is in response to The Finer Nation’s “Ugh–Crappy Modern Quilting” because, really, she makes a good point about the role of quilting and what it does. I know by now you’ve seen all sorts of modern quilts and the quilting on them. From dense to sparse, quilting itself covers a wide range of […]
Archives for July 2013
Another book win
I have had Eli Leon’s book Who’d a Thought It: Improvisation in African-American Quilt Making on my Amazon wish list for years, and after the workshop at DSQ when I got to see it in person, I realized I should just go ahead and buy the darn thing. Except, now the used copies weren’t in a […]
Inspiration from a dear friend
A good friend of ours from college, Jeff, sent me a cryptic note on facebook the other day, that he’d found something for me, and merry-early-Christmas. I had *no* idea what he was talking about, but kept an eye on the mail, as requested. Jeff and I had been talking about how I look to […]
pictures this week
Lake George in the Adirondacks has been called the “Queen of Lakes”. We went out on it for the first time this week on a friend’s boat, and it was… an amazing 2 hours. Beautiful clear water (we could see down to about 25 feet), perfect skies and mountains, and campsites all along the lake […]
Valances to be made… pondering color options
Unfortunately, the grey flowers from the line didn’t work at all with the blue, and the sapphire didn’t, either. What do you think? Similar, yet… not.
Today’s that kinda day
Today’s the sort of day where I start thinking about what things are worthy rewards for the terrible horrible no good very bad day it has been. And yesterday, too. Not that I will do this, but it’s nice to have pretty dreams when you’re incertain about kids getting stitches and being a half hour […]
So I did what any normal person would do.
I ordered all the fat quarters from Intrepid Thread so I could make an informed choice. I can make a quilt or pillows to tie the room together. Right?
What would you do? The curtain dilemma edition.
We’ve been living in this house for 6 years (we moved two weeks after our first kid was born and *that* was clearly not the best decision in the world), and we painted not long after we moved in. And then things kinda stagnated; it’s been six years and sometimes I still feel like it’s not […]
When it comes, I wanna wail…
…”Maaaaaaaail!” The mail came today and every piece was for me. And it was all awesome. I joined the Quilt Alliance, I got some great reference books for quilting, and samples of wide backing fabrics: Not to mention, I also found a giant stack of Cottage Living magazines (long since out of print) last night that […]
Woohoo!
The Summer edition of Modern Quilts Unlimited just came out digitally, and I have my second quilt “All Together Now” is included in it! I am pretty happy, because I really love this quilt. It’s a twin-size quilt at 69″ x 90″ and will be going on the bed we made from scratch for my little […]