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Busy week on the homestead.  Thought I’d shower you with the images that I got from Jay this week.  

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, […]

There are two main parts to quilting: piecing and quilting. So far I’ve just been piecing my “quilts” (which are really just quilt tops – see my earlier post, “A Quilt by any other Name” ) and not actually doing any quilting on them. For this quilt I’m attempting the trapunto technique, which is kind […]

I’ve been thinking of the pattern to use for the next quilt in the series, the one for my great grandmother Cassie Hodgman. I have been thinking of some variation of the interlocking circles pattern. So I’ve had circles in my head. Today I made a stencil (drawing on what I learned from my workshop […]

I’m working more on the individual squares for Grace’s quilt and have pieced a few together. They are sewing together rather nicely, all straightforward geometric pieces. Getting the squares to go together is another thing entirely. It’s always more difficult to get the squares to fit together, they end up being slightly different sizes and […]

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 […]

And a well shot picture is worth even more. I learned a while back that I am not a good photographer. Fortunately for me there is a great photographer who specializes in photographing artwork just a few blocks from me, Jay York. Jay does great work (sometimes I think he makes my work look better […]

Ok, to clarify things, I keep referring to these ‘things’ I’m making as ‘quilts’. I know they are not really quilts and to any quiltmakers out there among you this is probably annoying. A ‘real’ quilt has a front, (typically of cloth, yes) some sort of batting (typically cotton or wool) and a backing. That […]