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Had a wonderful week of printmaking. Since I knew I wanted two sets of 7” x 7” of monoprints I decided to use an 8” x 8” inch aluminum plate that I had to make things a little simpler for me. (Aside about printing plates: In traditional printmaking a plate is the matrix, often metal, […]

I did a little printmaking and a lot of mulling (without the wine – though that sounds like a great idea!) working through ideas for Elizabeth’s quilt. I didn’t come up with any workable prints, though I did have a lot of fun printing (haven’t done that for a while).   More importantly I figured out […]

I’m finally over the head cold from hell! I finished the whipstitching around the edge of Nan’s quilt this week. Done and Done. This part is always slow going. I fold the interfacing under and whipstitch it down by hand. It is a very slow, meditative process. I rather like it, it allows me the […]

That’s All I got this week.

I finished threading the ribbon through the trim on the latest quilt! This seems like quite a victory, and it was certainly a lesson in patience. I found that if I rushed it at all the ribbon would start to fray and the trim would start to tear. I did what I usually do, I made […]

I got the newly dipped, laminated and cut trim pieces sewn back onto the quilt (after removing the old ones). I tried sewing the edges of the trim pieces together but realized as soon as I sewed the first two together that the pieces would likely tear if I tried to sew them all together […]

I never thought that the hardest part about building a new website would be getting rid of the old one. Apparently it is harder to transfer a domain from one hosting site to another than I imagined… I am now going back and forth with support tickets trying to sort it all out. My new […]

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 […]