I Must Be Full

One trait I would like to acquire in the coming months on the road is the ability to discover the unusual, while looking for the mundane.  We started the day with a short list of tasks, some fun (we hoped), some necessary for the road.  We needed gas and groceries.  We wanted to find a [...]

There will be a Part III of this quilt report…..because this awesome project is not quite done.  To get your self up to speed, a group of eight quilters got together to share in the creation of a group project (click on the word project).  Each quilter got a thumbnail section of 1/8th of a [...]

My friend, Edith Harmer, and I have generated collaborative quilt projects in the past…collaborative in that a group of quilters come together to create one fiber piece.  Last year we worked on a close-up of a rose.  Four quilters created four segments of the rose photograph, we exchanged our quadrants and then pieced those four [...]

I had a nice idea.  Make a red and green quilt.  Make two large circles with lots of tiny pieces.  The complimentary red and green will visually help the circles to “vibrate”.  All’s well,and no, these are not Christmas Tree skirts. Back in August I didn’t really know where the design was going…. The fabric [...]

When it rains on a Monday, you can find us inside….getting stuff done.  Durry has spent the day at his computer researching the Watts family in Kentucky in the 1820′s and ’30s.  My day was spent correcting lots of technical errors on a quilt I have been struggling with since August.  Perhaps by the end [...]

Apparently, I have a lot for quilts to show you.  Believe me, the house is FULL of fiber art. Paint Chips 49″x50″ $350 Red Tail Lights 26″ x 31″ $175 Color Can’t Hurt You 30″ x 36″ $175

In 2003, Sandi Globus from Ocean Wave Quilts challenged me to make a quilt using the colors in this Frida Kahlo self-potrait (below) — salmon, ochre, olive, burgandy, with a touch of scarlett.  Earlier that year I had taken a class from Margaret Miller in which she was testing her angle-play techniques for her up-coming [...]

I’ve never been there, but these colors just felt like Egypt to me.  The quilt is 49 x 56 and has a nice border that is not showing in the picture.      This quilt happened because I had a few leftover blocks from a quilt I had made for my nephew Nathan.    I only had a [...]

Hand-dyed fabric and quilt created in August 2002. If I take a picture of every sell-able quilt in the house then perhaps I can set up my own Etsy store. Ha!   This is all cotton and measures 41″ x 41″.  $400

This is post number one for me on this new blog site…therefore this is a test. This morning I picked up four quilts that had been hanging at Plaza Design in Arcata. Nothing sold…price too high? no interest? lousy holiday economy? Whatever. They are back at home, and instead of just folding them up and [...]