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One thing about growing up in a small town where your next door neighbors were your grandparents, you had 5 sets of great aunts and uncles within a few blocks and countless numbers of your mother’s cousins spread throughout the town; you really couldn’t get away with much. By the time I made it home […]

With my great-aunt Elsie it wasn’t Tom Gordon but Dennis Eckersley that she was in love with, but no one ever wrote a book about The Girl Who Loved Dennis Eckersley, even if he did have, as Elsie claimed, the best hair in baseball. I finished up Lib’s quilt. I really enjoyed finishing up the […]

I added the border to Lib’s quilt and moved on to the slowest and most meditative part of the process, whip-stitching the edge of the border down by hand. I particularly enjoy this part of the process because it allows me the time to mentally sum up the whole piece as I literally sit with […]

Winslow Homer famously had a sign on the grounds of his studio announcing the above to discourage visitors. He liked to play the part of the eccentric, reclusive, artist. The sign is currently in his studio in Prout’s Neck Maine: The Portland Museum of Art bought Homer’s studio in 2006 and began a renovation project […]

Most of the quilts I have done to date have actually been quilt tops, that is they have just been the equivalent of the top layer(s) of fabric of a quilt without the layer of batting or backing that makes up a traditional quilt. The last quilt I made involved the trapunto technique and therefor […]

More research and much more practice on appliquing quilt pieces later and I have learned the following: A number of different stitches are traditionally used with appliqué I have the best luck with the straight stitch If you have the tension too tight and your length set too short you can actually saw right through […]

I cut out all the pieces for Lib’s Bumble Bee quilt; 25 yellow squares, 20 yellow bodies and 40 brown wings. Then came my favorite part with a new project – problem solving. How was I going to figure out how to place them accurately on the square? Geometry to the rescue. I cut 4 […]

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 […]

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 […]