This month’s BirdZeed challenge word is “new.” I did not sit down with a blank sheet of paper and brainstorm what the word means to me as I sometimes do to get started. Instead, I was talking with a friend about taking a step and doing something new and I imagined standing on a brink, […]
I heard recently that the brother of someone in my art group passed away suddenly. An image formed in my mind immediately upon reading about it of angel wings on a purple background. Other images have popped in my head over the years and just as quickly popped back out again, but not this one. […]
Easter fell a little later in the calendar in 2012 than it did this year. The basket was woven with strips of brown batik fabric; the grass is Superior Threads Glitter thread; and the eggs allowed me to pull out all of my variegated threads and give the fancy stitches on my Bernina a try. This […]
I mentioned that I had started the American Patchwork & Quilting 2016 UFO Challenge. To do the challenge, you catalog your UFO projects, assign numbers 1 – 12 to each one, and when APQ draws the number each month, you complete the UFO. I’m behind already on February’s project, but I did finish January’s in […]
There’s some amazing stuff in my stash – like Halloween fabric. I can’t explain why I have Halloween fabric in my stash, but this weekend it came in handy. I made a Trick or Treat bag for my daughter, completely from stash supplies. She picked the fabrics and I chose the quilting design using Superior […]
The week of July 7, 2011 brought the relief of rain after a heat wave (a New England heat wave granted, but heat by our standards). I went back to the Glitter from Superior Threads and pulled out the silver to use with a piece of gray batik to create this journal quilt:
Throwback Thursday this week takes us back to the Fourth of July in 2011. I’d been doing Superior Threads‘ Superior University and had a nice pile of Glitter threads to play with so . . .