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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 […]

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 […]

Another fairly unproductive week due to a migraine that wouldn’t respond to my medication. I have a part-time day job so I only have a few dedicated days per week to work on my artwork. When those days are spent curled up in a ball on the sofa with a migraine it is particularly frustrating. […]

Aside from it actually snowing this week (which oddly has been rare this winter here in Maine (and yes I know it’s technically spring but that normally doesn’t start till much later here)) I had a package from McClain’s Printmaking Supplies waiting for me when I came back home from Veazie. I get so excited […]

So you may have noticed that I haven’t posted a completed photo of the quilt that I made for my grandmother Halice. My normal process when I finish a piece is that I prop it up in my living room and stare at it for a while until I decide it’s finished. I either rework […]

The more they stay the same – or so the saying goes… Had a lot of trouble today with the sewing – lot’s of stitching and unstitching when things wouldn’t line up right so I took it as a sign that it was time to reorganize my closet. The print and book page pieces don’t […]

We will not speak of the Bruins Habs game. Not a lot to say today what with the holidays and all. I got a bit ahead of myself and took advantage of being home for the holidays to have my mother help me out with my next quilt in line, the quilt for my great-grandmother […]

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 […]

I spent a whole day last week in the archives of the Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine at Orono. Started 50 years ago by Edward “Sandy” Ives, the Folklife Center is a repository of folklore and oral history of Maine and Maritime Canada. Back in 1977-1978 the Sandy Ives and students associated […]

Not an early Halloween post but rather a post about the first new quilt that I’m doing in the project, one for my maternal grandmother, Beulah Jordan Hodgman, a.k.a. “Boo”. I’m starting with Boo, because I grew up in the house next door to her so she was both literally and figuratively near and dear […]