Archive for September, 2009
Spontaneous Collage
Week 4: 9/21/09 – When I began looking around for an idea for this weeks journal quilt, I found a deep blue square on which I had tested some free motion quilting patterns for a storytelling quilt, my current project. I added the blue tone print as well as more…
Quilters must Eat
My mom and I have a running joke that if we didn’t have other people to care for in our families, we’d just keep on sewing and quilting and not stop until we were really, really hungry. When I’m in my groove, I hate realizing that it is 4:30ish and…
Ghost Layers Workshop
Week 3: 9/14/09 – This was a busy week with some drama with my daughter earlier in the week and a two-day art quilting workshop on Thursday and Friday. I’ll write another article on the workshop (which was spectacular) and post a photo of my piece once I’ve quilted it….
Feast or Famine – Texas Style
Week 2: 9/7/09 - The saying usually goes feast or famine but in Central Texas this week it was drought or flood. Since coming back from Maine the intense heat and dry brown vegetation everywhere has been a shock. I’ve experienced it before, but contrasting it with the damp, cool,…
Storytelling Encore
Yesterday was an exciting day. I received my first commission for a quilt. Last spring, I made a storytelling quilt for a friend who was expecting a new baby. The pattern came from a great book called “The Modern Quilt Workshop” by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr. It was actually…