I’ve decided to switch to biweekly posts to the blog, in part because my non-art life has been terribly busy lately but also because I’ve found myself spending what I feel is too much time thinking about what to write about. I’d rather spend my time making art and have the blog post be a more natural outcropping of that work.

I’ve been having a heck of a time getting the squares to line up on Elsie’s quilt. This is in large part because they have to fit together in a particular sequence. I can’t pick and choose which ones fit together best since I’m intentionally piecing these together to put the newspaper articles back in their original sequence so there is less play here. It is all down to ‘mush factor’ and really slow sewing.

I’ve also been doing a lot of reading and looking ahead for crazy quilt patterns to get psyched up for the next quilt for my great aunt Norma (my grandfather Stewart’s sister). I’ve created a board on Pinterest as I’ve been wandering around if you’d like to take a look at some lovely examples of crazy quilts:

Of course I’m also grieving for Elsie: grieving the loss of the Red Sox in the ALDS to the Astros. They just didn’t have the starting pitching this year. But Elsie would be the first to remind me, ‘ there’s always next year’.