Month: July 2010
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Ten days until demo night
I’m feeling rather indecisive lately. My quilt guild is having a demo night for the next meeting. This is where five members of the guild volunteer to show some product or teach some skill. The rest of the members will divide up and rotate around the room, spending about ten minutes at each station. Somehow,…
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There’s always something – this time VBS
There’s always something! You know, an excuse, a reason. This week our church held its VBS (vacation Bible school). All the volunteers really did a fantastic job and the kids were thrilled. I wasn’t really directly involved, but I did go every night to take pictures. My daughter and her husband were both recruited so…
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New blue flower
Not much quilting is getting done right now, but I am enjoying do a multitude of other little tasks. One of those is assembling this flower for my garden. I’m not much of a gardener at all. Basically, my garden consists of “volunteers” (any plant that plants itself, takes care of itself, and requires no…
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Subversive Stitchers
Today Dawn Goldsmith of Subversive Stitchers:Women Armed with Needles discussed traditional and modern sampler quilts, and she featured my quilt, “In Answer to Prayer.” This quilt was my very first original quilt, and also my first quilt featuring a person. I first realized that quilts could include people after seeing the work of Charlotte Warr…
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Two fat envelopes!
My mailbox revealed two fat envelopes today! Both “Captivated” and “Sheer Whim” have been selected as finalists and will be exhibited at the 2010 International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas. I’ve been entering this show nearly every year since 1998. “First December in Ohio” was the first quilt I every had accepted into the IQF…
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Pieceful Stitchers Workshop
Today I taught a workshop for Pieceful Stitchers. Here are a few quick photos of a few of the portraits that were begun. Each workshop we make new discoveries. Today one student discovered that a stiletto is very useful for making the initial hole in the fabric so it is easier to insert a pair…
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Workshop Preparation
I spent today preparing for the “Making Faces” workshop I will be teaching this Saturday. It’s always exciting when I’m getting things ready. I really enjoy problem-solving processes, and I love to organize things, so thinking through everything that will be needed, gathering it together, and putting it all in a logical order is very…
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Wallpapering
Quilting has temporarily put on the back burner so I can do a few other projects. Today my daughter came over so we could put up a bit of wallpaper in one of the Sunday school rooms at church. This project only involved five poster-sized panels so it was quick and easy. Our next project…
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Blue picnic tables
I’m working on checking things off my “to do” list. One of them was to put wood putty in the cracks on our two picnic tables, and then to put on a couple more coats of blue paint. So, instead of quilting, that’s some of what I’ve been up to the last few days. Today…
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Family visit
I haven’t posted for a while because I’ve been enjoying a visit from my dad, my brother and his wife. We had a nice time talking, and we also went to the Air Force Museum, a few parks, some antique shops, and, of course, restaurants. Food is always an integral part of any gathering, isn’t…