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Hello all, this seems to be a very busy time of year for me, and a hard one to get a lot of art done in. Every year at this time my husband and I go up to Quebec for a music festival (let’s see if I can get my french approximately right…) le Festivale […]

I haven’t lost it – I finished up the postcards! I always seem to underestimate how long the hand-sewing around the edges is going to take… I really enjoyed working with the crazy quilt pattern – or lack there of. I’ve decided that I’ll make one of the full size quilts a crazy quilt. But […]

Every year in June I go to the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown Mass.  It is a wonderful gathering of painters, printmakers and artists of every ilk. There are lectures, demos, book-signings, a hotel-fair where we get to see each other’s work and a vendor room to die for. I plan my art-life around this […]

I started going through “A Midwife’s Tale” looking for pages that would be good to use in the quilt for my great-grandmother. As I suspected I got drawn in and started reading the book instead (this is why I ordered the extra copy!). As it turns out it was good timing because I have another […]

I’ve been away on vacation for a while, though I did manage to set the blog up to auto post in my absence. And I even brought some work with me. Here I am in a hammock working on some crocheting: While I was away I was finally able to think of a book to […]

I’m on vacation, actually I was on vacation last week as well but I managed to get one semi-meaningfull post done ahead of time before I left.  And I even managed to figure out how to schedule posts to publish on their own!  See you all next week!

So I’ve been trying to decide how to hang these things… For the photographs I’ve been using rare earth neodymium magnets (in part because I like saying neodymium). This is a great way to hang unframed prints; just stick some tacks in a wall, put the print up and place the magnets on the other […]

My cousin JoAnne remembered that my great grandmother Grace was fond of making crocheted doilies and that she often used the pineapple pattern. I got it in my head that it would be nice to add a crocheted border around her quilt so I looked up various pineapple patterns and started experimenting. I found a […]

Aside from it actually snowing this week (which oddly has been rare this winter here in Maine (and yes I know it’s technically spring but that normally doesn’t start till much later here)) I had a package from McClain’s Printmaking Supplies waiting for me when I came back home from Veazie. I get so excited […]

So you may have noticed that I haven’t posted a completed photo of the quilt that I made for my grandmother Halice. My normal process when I finish a piece is that I prop it up in my living room and stare at it for a while until I decide it’s finished. I either rework […]