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I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays. I had a wonderful Christmas up in Veazie with my mother, sisters and their families. I have been thinking a lot about the patterns for the future quilts and as I talked about these with my mother over the holidays I was struck by the image of the […]

My Father’s favorite chocolates were chocolate-covered cherries. Every year for Christmas my mother would get him a box. Personally I can’t stand them (though that didn’t stop me from eating them when I was a child – chocolate after all)– they are just too sweet for me, I’m more of a dark chocolate type. The […]

There are pros and cons to having your studio in your house. Pros Cons The biggest one – it’s much cheaper than renting a space. The con is that you end up with artwork in various stages of completion and art supplies all over your living space. Short commute: whenever I want to work I’m […]

I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful Thanksgiving. I had a lovely trip up north to Veazie to visit my mother and sisters and their families. As I think most families do we have our set traditions and it makes for a very relaxing visit. This week has been a bit of a loss […]

In this chaotic year I am thankful for my family and friends, those present and past.  I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Got another row of circles done and faced the daunting task of lining them up and sewing them together. This part is always slow going and tricky but is usually made a bit easier by the fact that I can mix and match the squares till I find one that fits. I can’t do that […]

So I figured out how to handle the trim around the edges of the quilt for my great grandmother Cassie. I was inspired by the christening gown she made (above) to bring ribbon work into the quilt in some way. I also needed to decide on a book for the quilt. My strongest connection to […]

Working on the quilt for my great-grandmother, Cassie Reeves Hodgman (aka Nan) has been an interesting journey. She died long before I was born so I only knew of her through pictures and the occasional story from my grandfather. Since my grandfather is also gone now when I went to make the quilt I had […]

Not a lot of progress on the project this week as I have a fairly obnoxious cold, and what I did get done was more of the same that I talked about last week. I did take a wonderful field trip to the Colby College Museum of Art to see the collections and hear Leonard […]

I’ve been trying to figure out how to sew the squares together. With the quilts I’ve done to date I’ve sewn the pieces together on a pellon (interfacing) backing and then lined the squares up, overlapped the pellon backing and sewn the squares together. I’ve used heavy black thread with a zigzag overstitching technique and […]