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Being an artist isn’t all fun and play. There is a lot of drudge work to it. I spent this week working on rewriting my website. I spent a lot of the last year putting off rewriting my website because I really didn’t want to do this even though I knew it needed to be […]

The trim pieces are all prepared and I removed all of the old ones from the quilt. I did a test with one of the new and improved catalog pieces and found that they are now strong enough to hold up to having the ribbon woven through them. I had to give some thought as […]

I got a lot of great suggestions from friends on how to tackle the issue I faced last week with the fragile catalog pages crumbling. I forget sometimes that I’m not the only person who does what I do. I also forget sometimes that it’s ok to ask for help or ideas if I get […]

Fail, fail again… If you are going to fail it is best to fail quickly and learn something from it! This week I’ve been working on adding the trim to the quilt for my great-grandmother Cassie Hodgman (a.k.a. Nan). It was meant to be done with the pages of an old Sears & Roebucks catalog, […]