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Yes, I’m guilty. I skipped a post. But I have a good excuse. I was at the 11th Annual International Encaustic Conference last week and I had a blast. Attended some amazing shows. Learned a bunch at some wonderful sessions, saw new and old friends, saw wonderful art (and bought some!) at the Hotel Fair […]

Trying the fancy Post ahead feature – hope it works! I’m actually up in Canada at the moment at a music festival. If everything works as planned this posted on Friday at 5:00pm. I managed to get my head and my bobbin assembly both on straight this week (bobbin assembly thanks to Paul’s help-he speaks […]

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 finished crocheting together the medallions on the side and hung Grace’s quilt up. I’ve been staring at it for a while trying to decide if it is done or not. I’ll probably keep it there on the wall in my living room for a while until I make my mind up. I do this […]

Really, I know how to count. I make a cheat sheet for each of the quilts at the start to help plan things out and to let me know how many of each shape/print/book page I need to cut out. The math is fairly straightforward: you take the number of a particular shape/print combo that […]

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 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 […]