Last Friday, we picked blueberries And finished building Jack’s bed: Saturday was a birthday part in the morning, and our yearly neighborhood carnival and fireworks: Sunday was yard work (not my fave, no pics, ha!) Andy yesterday we went to Schroon Lake, a lovely place in the Adirondacks about an hour from where we live: […]
Archives for July 2013
Have you seen this contest?
If you haven’t, you should consider it– a modern double wedding ring quilt contest sponsored by NYC Mod! You can get all the juicy details here. The deadline is December 1, so you have a wee bit of time to think about it.
Food for thought
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, […]
A great quilt historian–and links for modern style quilters
If you don’t know Barbara Brackman and her work as a quilt historian, writer, and designer, you should. She has two blogs I read (she actually has several more): Material Culture, which deals with fabrics and quilts from all periods, and Historically Modern, which she describes as “…a blog about the traditions of modernism, with an eye to […]
Progress was made
and the eldest of my best beloveds helped the big best beloved with the work today. So proud of himself!
A different sort of project
When it came time for our first kid to go to a big bed, we just used the bed we had on hand rather than get him a new one. This bed happened to be a queen-sized mattress! Recently, though, we’ve been trying to get the house organized, and realized that all his toys lived […]
My prize got here!
Back in June, I had entered my mini quilt into the Ellison Lane Mini Challenge. Lo and behold, I was chosen by the random number generator to receive a prize pack from Dritz! It arrived this week, and I am pretty excited about it, since it incudes a ruler I’ve been ogling: This isn’t a […]
On the frame
This is a customer quilt I currently have on the frame. She specifically requested that the quilting not be dense. Because the fabrics are so busy, I chose a loose swirly ribbon design to go in the log cabin blocks with pattern, and a framing swirly ribbon for the white areas to offset the quilt […]