Month: June 2011

  • Watercolor class 6

    Watercolor class 6

    I just got back from my sixth watercolor workshop session. I missed last week’s workshop because of our mini vacation, and we’ll have one more in July. Today Nita Leland talked about various techniques that can be used to achieve special effects. Things like sprinkling an area with salt, or covering it with plastic wrap,…

  • Mini private workshop

    Mini private workshop

    Last week I decided to set aside Monday and Tuesday as a mini private painting workshop. I loaded up bottles and bottles of fabric paint that I’ve collected over the last ten or fifteen years. I knew some were probably no good any more, but I was determined to use up whatever I could. We…

  • Thank you for my daddy

    Thank you for my daddy

    I’m so thankful for my daddy. I love his easy-going nature and his sense of humor. He is incredibly generous and is a man of integrity. Before he developed Alzheimer’s, he had an amazing ability to add up long strings of numbers in his head and had a terrific memory. Even now he is typically…

  • Stitched, the Film

    Stitched, the Film

    Yesterday at our SAQA parlour meeting we got to watch Stitched. It is a documentary on the current quilt world. It specifically features Caryl Bryer Fallert, Hollis Chatelain, and Randall Cook. It follows them through a full year as they each create a quilt for the International Quilt Festival in Houston. I’ve been looking forward…

  • SAQA Parlour Meeting

    SAQA Parlour Meeting

    Today was another SAQA Parlour Meeting for the Southwest and Central Ohio regions. Sixteen quilters in our area gathered together to exchange ideas and to share what they’ve been working on. I had the opportunity to show “Windblown.” Show and Tell is always my favorite time of any gathering, and today was no exception! Here…

  • Great buys

    Great buys

    I forgot to mention my Great Buy of the Week! On Tuesday, my quilt guild had their annual auction/garage sale. Everything is divided into lots. Typically a book or stack of magazines is paired with 5 or so yards of fabric. For $1, you buy the right to play. Then, anytime something you are interested…

  • Sheer Whim at NQA Show

    Sheer Whim at NQA Show

    My sweet hubby and I had the opportunity to go to the NQA show today, and I was thrilled to see that “Sheer Whim” won a third place ribbon in the Art/Innovative category. (Sorry for the lousy picture! Can you believe I only took one, and it was fuzzy? Oh, well.) It was lots of…

  • Watercolor class 5

    Watercolor class 5

    I just got home from the fifth watercolor class. I suppose it’s wrong to call it a class. It’s more of a time of free painting with a bit of instructive comments and mild critique thrown in, although today Nita Leland did an hour long demo on painting trees. That was pretty interesting. Anyway, I’ve…

  • Gallery updated

    Gallery updated

    I just finished updating my gallery page so it now features Windblown and Embrace 1. Writing artist’s statements is definitely not my strength, so if you have questions about either of these pieces, or if you have ideas of what other information should be included, please feel free to let me know.

  • Iridescent blue sandals

    Iridescent blue sandals

    I’m so tired of my boring brown Birkenstocks. I bought them in 2007, so I was ready for something new, but these are still in pretty good condition and I wasn’t too fond of the blue ones that are currently available. (Yes, of course they need to be blue!) I remember reading somewhere that Shiva…