Category: Quilting, Other Textile Pursuits
Domino Effect
This past week I completed an item that’s been hanging around my to-do list for a year: write a query letter for my memoir manuscript. After twelve months of procrastination I even surprised myself at how quickly the first draft came together. With feedback and suggestions from a circle of writerly friends incorporated, the final…
Spring has Sprung
My friend Beth has a flair for interior decorating. Her seasonal vignettes inspire me. The table always looks beautiful, set with lovely treasures and surprise goody bags for young and old. My contribution for this year’s Easter gathering was a variation on Kalyn’s Kitchen’s Chinese Napa Cabbage Asian Salad. I skipped the cilantro and Sriracho…
Excited Contestant Needs *Your* Vote!
My submission qualified (hip-hip-hooray!) and now the voting has begun over on Stumbles and Stitches for the fan favorite Spring Zig Zag Table Runner. The sew-along was inspired by the table runner in Rashida Coleman-Hale‘s book I Love Patchwork. It would be very cool to rack up a few votes, even if I don’t win (a copy…
The beauty of a deadline
I am tickled pink — I managed to complete my ZigZag Table Runner within the allotted timeframe for the sew-along over at StumblesandStitches. Several mornings over the past week, with the deadline looming near, I fit in a few minutes at the cutting table before the demands of the day could take hold, just like…
Spring Runner Sew-Along
Ever heard of zakka?! (Don’t feel badly — I hadn’t either.) As Rashida Coleman-Hale explains in I Heart Patchwork, it is a Japanese term, meaning “miscellaneous goods. … now understood as an aesthetic and design style, mainly focused on household items.” One of the charming projects in her book is the Zigzag Table Runner. The…
More Mitered Knitting
I’ve been thinking about doing a post dedicated to the blogs I follow on a regular basis. But until I get around to organizing all of those web links, I have to tell you about Susan, a crafter out on the west coast. She seems to do it all, and she’s a young mom, too….
Kaleidoscope, part I
I haven’t been napping. Honest. It’s just that ever since last September, week after week my time has been dominated by class planning. Teaching new courses will do that, apparently. The lack of personal creative exercise has felt like a slow suffocation of my spirit, but I finally grabbed control of the situation and started…
I’m going cozy!
I finally got around to quilting some cute Japanese doll fabric and cutting out four more phone/camera cozies. The happy meter on my inner creative spirit went through the roof as I tied the final knot on the frog closure! Particularly satisfying is that all of the materials are coming from my stash. Love that….
How I found my way to slow crafting
It was Sunday night and I was itching to make something. I’d reached the point in the sweater when I will have to put the whole thing on a temporary thread and try the yoke of the sweater on, but that was more of a task and not appealing. The thought of sitting at the sewing machine didn’t interest me…