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

I made the mistake of thinking it would be easy to set my sewing machine up for free motion quilting… Turns out the footer I needed wasn’t even available locally (I did at least have the sense to check online and realized this before I went out shopping (not that a trip to JoAnne Fabric […]

This was a saying that my Grandmother Halice was very fond of. Not that she had a lot of vices, she was a teetotaling Northern Baptist after all. She just kind of liked to have it both ways, but then don’t we all sometimes. This week I am guilty of not practicing the kind of […]

That’s All I got this week.

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 […]

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 […]

In this chaotic year I am thankful for my family and friends, those present and past.  I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Working on the quilt for my great-grandmother, Cassie Reeves Hodgman (aka Nan) has been an interesting journey. She died long before I was born so I only knew of her through pictures and the occasional story from my grandfather. Since my grandfather is also gone now when I went to make the quilt I had […]

It’s been a productive if somewhat uneventful week. I finished the square for the dowry quilt from Grace’s quilt. The idea behind the dowry quilt is to take one extra square from each of the quilts and join them together to make a single “Sampler Quilt” that will form my Dowry Quilt.  Sampler quilts were […]

Got back to working on Grace’s quilt this week. I managed to pick a ridiculously muggy day to dip the cut up book pages. Nothing like standing over an electric wok full of melted encaustic medium for a few hours on a nice humid summer day on the coast of Maine. Something I hadn’t anticipated […]