Quilter. Writer. Artist
Since my last post here, I’ve been trying to get myself moving again. I can’t let these middle schoolers beat me. They are just kids, afterall, and I’m a young 62. Where do they get the energy? A couple of grandkids running around is nothing in comparison to a roomful. Anyway, I started this top […]
Our neice recently had a baby. She and her husband knew early into the pregnancy that the baby had little chance of surviving to full term. Though they saw doctor after doctor, no one was able to help them. They lost little Asher only an hour after he was born. A few days later she
Perhaps you remember that my sister, Cookie, is in the nursing home about 20 minutes drive from my house. She suffers from dementia, perhaps Alzhemiers but we’re not certain. Since I have been visiting for the last year or so, I’ve gotten to know some of the staff, especially Connie who answers questions, checks in
Welcome to PIW, the week of red and white quilts! I have over 60 quilts on the “red and white” section of my “heart, quilts” board. This is just a small taste. Apologies, I was not able to find information on these last two, but they are too pretty to not include. Of course, choosing
Making HSTs is really quite easy. I can’t begin to count how many I’ve made over the years, and I always use this process. It’s just too simple to consider changing. These directions will give you one HST block. I wrote this tutorial in 2012 when I made this quilt for a student who was
An entire herd of unicorns came through my living room this past week. I discovered a unicorn pattern online and in less than a minute decided that I had to make one for Milly. She loves unicorns and insists on a unicorn story every time I offer to tell one. Ryder is into big trucks
I joined in a round robin with the Baton Rouge MQG guild. This quilt is titled “The Four Seasons of Improv.” Since everyone before me used improv and a bit of black for definition, I took that and ran. Haha, I ran with the idea. I crawled with the execution. I learned many “what not
Though I’ve been struggling with blogging (mentioned in my last post), I have found myself in the studio again. What a pleasure! Mostly I’ve been working on small projects, but hey, working on any project is marching forward. One of those projects is this little collection of hair scrunchies. They are fast and easy and
We have four grandies who are still in school. Two begin middle-school, one is a fifth grader, and one begins Pre-K 4. Kiddos starting school can mean only one thing: uniforms. Lots of uniforms. (So, lots of time in the studio 🙂 All needing some sort of alterting or fixing or repairing. The moms all
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My approach to workshops is that of a teacher who taught high school and junior college courses for 30 years. I use the same approaches to teaching quilting: I model a technique, we work on it together, and then students practice it on their own. We make sure everyone is ready to move on to
