Check out the link to Quiltersmuse.com for a posting re one of my quilts with ‘words’ or writing on it (August 28th posting).  I have been catching up on past postings on the quiltart digest and noticed a call for ideas about how people use words on their work and thought of this piece ‘2008 Revisited: Retirement Angst’.  It hasn’t been posted anywhere yet and this is just a teaser shot as I would like to...

As a follow-up to all the postings on Dale Ann Potter’s FB page about her dream of traveling by RV and teaching as she goes, I decided not to delay any longer with this posting.  It’s been planned for a while but I thought I should wait until everything was tidy!  This may be a bit of a ramble and I’ll try to group info but here goes! My Mobile Studio We have been traveling full-time in our motor home since January 2009 and...

Over the weekend I continued to work on samples until I ran out of suitable fabric – plain enough for the stitching to show but not totally plain.  My machine was cantankerous, making new noises and not making perfect stitches so I was glad that I had booked a visit to the service man Gil at Rumpled Quilt Skins in Okotoks.  Not next door but this store comes highly recommended by a friend back in Ottawa.  What a banquet of quilts to view...

I’m finally back at my sewing machine.  Thanks to surgery and physiotherapy, the wrist is working fairly well, although my coordination is not what I’d like it to be.  So I designed my own therapy to work on that! I started about a month ago when I tackled a task I had talked about for two years – documenting the built-in embroidery stitches on my sewing machine.  Somehow the computer images just don’t tell the whole...

I didn’t get back to the project until late in the day yesterday as an invite to lunch could not be turned down!  The next step was to added the surface design.  I considered using white glue and decided it would take too long to dry.  I considered getting ‘stringing compound’ and decided it would be too expensive.  So in the end I chose to use my old standby, quick drying and paintable, DAP.  I had part of a tube on hand so...

I’ve been told that the in-thing is to do a casting of the ‘baby bump’ and to decorate it as a piece of art.  My young’uns decided that the kit was too expensive so after a discussion with me they purchased the plaster embedded tape at the local ‘M’ store and got out the jar of Vaseline and went to work.  Then they announced that it was over to me to decorate!         I spent all day...

Back in the winter I undertook to make a couple of crib quilts – one for a niece’s baby and one for a new grandchild expected in July.  The baby quilts were finished earlier in the spring and one delivered in March when we were back in Ontario.  I was using a pattern ‘Twisted Triangles’ that I found on allpeoplequilt.com.  I just checked and I can’t find the instructions but the link shows the original pattern...

I’ve been gradually getting back to doing some of my ‘ art shoulds’ that have accumulated during my wrist healing experience and one of the items on my list is blogging here more often.  I’ve been able to get back to some of my quilting projects (more on this to come shortly) and have started to plan my re-entry into my ‘art’ work so hope to have lots to share in the next few entries. Today I want to share my...

Well the jokes on me! Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on my ‘challenge ‘ entry for the Fast Friday challenge, only to discover that it is blog postings I subscribed to, and not the group itself! And it’s a closed group to boot!Oh well, I’ve completed my first fiberart journal piece I guess. With my dominant hand in a cast for the past month, I’ve spent a lot more time than usual surfing and...

I just found this really neat site for an on-line quilt festival and thought I would post an entry. There is a first time for everything!     My entry is the wedding wall quilt that I made for my son and daughter-in-law a few years ago.     Under the guise of making a scrapbook for them, I asked them both write the story of how they met and under another pretense got a copy of some of their digital photographs. Where I...