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    11The Dog Ate My Homework

    The Dog Ate My Homework

    Jun 10, 2016

    I feel SO GUILTY. I didn’t post anything last week! I always seem to forget something when I go on a trip, this time it was my laptop bag. I was away at the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown last week and had a wonderful time but was wracked with guilt the whole time that […]

    12Going Postal

    Going Postal

    May 13, 2016

    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 […]

    13Going Crazy

    Going Crazy

    May 6, 2016

    Every year in June I go to the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown Mass.  It is a wonderful gathering of painters, printmakers and artists of every ilk. There are lectures, demos, book-signings, a hotel-fair where we get to see each other’s work and a vendor room to die for. I plan my art-life around this […]

    14Practice Makes Acceptable

    Practice Makes Acceptable

    Mar 5, 2016

    I’ve been doing some research into calico prints from the early to mid 20th century, the time that my great-grandmother Grace would have been quilting. I’ve also been taking a closer look at the photos that I have of the crazy quilt that hangs at the Veazie Congrational Church (pictured above), the one quilt that […]

    15Blocking

    Blocking

    Feb 27, 2016

    I have been working on prints for my great-grandmother Grace’s quilt for the last few days. I have been trying to come up with something approaching floral. Not really my wheelbase and frankly I’m not thrilled with the results so far, and I’ve managed to burn myself on my heat gun in the process. I’ve […]

    16Unfinished Business

    Unfinished Business

    Jan 9, 2016

    I thought about calling this one, “A Woman’s Work is Never Done”, but that seemed too cliché. Over the Christmas vacation I cleaned out my studio of a bunch of  stored up yarn and knitting needles. My mother called before we headed up to ask about a sweater pattern book that she knew I had and […]

    17We Preserve What We Cherish

    We Preserve What We Cherish

    Dec 18, 2015

    One of the things that intrigues me about working in wax is it’s ability to preserve things. Flowers are pressed between pages of waxed paper, bronze sculpture is sealed with wax to prevent tarnishing and fruit is covered in a wax coating to keep it appearing fresh a little bit longer. In his treatise, “On […]

    18File Under, “Why Didn’t I Think of This Before?”

    File Under, “Why Didn’t I Think of This Before?”

    Dec 11, 2015

    For the quilt that I’m making for my grandmother Halice I chose from my existing stock of encaustic monoprints. When I started cutting up the prints into the required shapes I realized I needed another sheet of the dark print for the large triangles in the middle. No problem I thought, I’d just make another […]

    19A Quilt by any Other Name and Some Printmaking

    A Quilt by any Other Name and Some Printmaking

    Nov 6, 2015

    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 […]

    20Zen and the Art of Sewing Machine Maintenance

    Zen and the Art of Sewing Machine Maintenance

    Oct 30, 2015

    I was reminded this week to go slow and pay attention to what I’m doing, both by my sewing machine and by the terribly helpful people (Tyler and Anita) at Sew Portland, where I took my little Janome 2222. I had I become convinced that the timing must be off because it kept jamming (it […]

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