Finally! After all these months of not feeling very creative and not being interested in doing any quilting, my creative energy just rushed back into my life yesterday afternoon. In the space of a few hours I: Finished the top for the UFO Swap I’ve been doing with the Rising Star Quilters Guild. I’d originally […]
I have just signed up to present at one of three virtual Meet the Teachers events being hosted by Sue Bleiweiss and Lyric Kinard. In order to help out quilt guild program chairs desperately seeking presenters who are fluent in Zoom (to which I can relate since I am also the program chair for the […]
Six weeks ago if you had asked me how likely it was that I would attend a quilt guild meeting by video conference, I would have given it a 0% chance. But life is nothing like it was six weeks ago so for the first time, my quilt guild the Rising Star Quilters met via […]
I’ll be sharing this tutorial at my guild meeting next week (Rising Star Quilters), but here’s a sneak peek. (The original thread painting is currently available from the Francesca Anderson Fine Art Gallery.) Why Thread Painted Photos? A photo gives you a place to start. You don’t have to create a design first, but can […]
Last week, I presented at the New England Quilt Museum‘s Meet the Teachers Day, but I was also there wearing my second hat as part of the programming committee for my guild (the Rising Star Quilters). I talked with a few other program chairs about the challenges we face filling workshops. Thinking about that challenge […]
The Victims Quilt Project will be on view at the Rising Star Quilters Guild Quilt Show. Dates: October 4 – 5, 2019 (Friday and Saturday) Hours: 10 AM – 5 PM Location: St Brigid Church,1995 Massachusetts Ave. Lexington, MA For more information about the Victims Quilt Project or to sponsor a block, see the Victims […]
Westward Expansion, 1840s – 1860s In the mid-1800s, Americans turned their eyes west. The first wagon trains left Missouri for the territories in 1843, and hundreds of thousands of settlers followed over the next few decades, bringing their quilts with them. Family and friends of settlers sent their loved ones with mementos of home in […]
From the special exhibit at the Rising Star Quilt Guild quilt show, October 2-3, 2015. The Colonial Period and the Early 1800’s As English settlers crossed the ocean to the American colonies, they brought their quilts and their quilting traditions with them. Whole cloth and mosaic-style paper pieced quilts were the most common styles among […]
You will have noticed that I skipped Throwback Thursday last week. I wanted to talk about the quilts that I had finished for the Rising Star Quilters Quilt Show instead. Of course, that makes this week’s throwback journal quilt even more timely. This week in 2011, as Asst. Treasurer for Rising Star, I helped with […]
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 […]