Journal Quilt #28 has a satin-stitched door that opens to reveal a photo of my studio. This weekend is the Monterey Makers Studio Tour in Monterey, MA. This year’s event is being held at the library on Saturday, rather than being a studio tour. But, when I participated in 2011, my door was open to […]
Well, the quilt anyway. I expect that my authentic self is going to be a WIP for quite a long time. For the quilting on this quilt, I let each different fabric “speak” to me and chose a quilting design that reflected the fabric itself. Each quilting design is different, but I was surprised by […]
I am putting the final touches on a few quilts this week, readying them for my guild show this weekend. (Come see it on Friday and Saturday at St. Brigid’s Church in Lexington, MA.) I’ll have two quilts in the show, in addition to the many samples that I pulled together for our special history […]
During the week of September 22, 2011, we celebrated my husband’s birthday with a weekend of eating. First stop was Baba Louie’s Pizza in Pittsfield, MA. We’re regulars at the restaurant (or rather the take-out window) in Great Barrington, but we went to Pittsfield to see “Moneyball” on opening night. We followed that with dinner […]
Week 12 of my journal quilting project fell the week of August 11, 2011. That weekend my DH and I attended an annual fundraising gala for the Bidwell House Museum in Monterey, MA. The party must have had a Caribbean theme or island feel to it because my journal notes read like this: Caribbean – […]