Commentary about works in progress, design & creativity
Linda, Laura and Catherine are back with issue 2 of Thr3fold Journal. They have also updated their website to include a wonderful video of the three of them talking about themselves and the journal. Take a look. clipped from www.lindakemshall.com Issue 3 is due in May or June.
The last part of the journal is what I would call the how-to section. I can accept this section as it does not tell me how to do a certain project. I don’t want to do someone else’s project. I want to learn how they achieved a certain look and then use it to make … Continue reading “Thr3fold Journal Articles Review Part 4”
Food for Thought p17 “…if you are anything like me you never have everything that’s listed in the recipe but you’re so impatient to start that very minute you decide to go ahead and do it anyway.” The article is about finding inspiration in Thr3fold and their hopes for the mag. It is basically a … Continue reading “Thr3fold Journal Articles Review Part 3”
The Associated Press is reporting that the restoration of the frescoes in the Pope’s apartments (called Stanze of Raphael), done by Raphael, are almost complete after 30 years of work. Hooray! I have spent a remarkable amount of time writing notes for Thr3fold reviews during the past couple of days. As a result, you do … Continue reading “Thr3fold Journal Articles Review Part 2”
Note that I put ‘part 1’ at the top. This is not intended to imply that there will be a part 2, but I will endeavor to review the entire journal. 😉 Thr3fold Journal is a multimedia journal written by Linda and Laura Kemshall and their friend/colleague Catherine Nicholls (hereafter LLC). It is 53 pages … Continue reading “Thr3fold Journal Articles Review Part 1”
Take a look. I ordered a copy and will let you know what I think.
Projects, Classes, Patterns & Tutorials My friend Mary C really likes the projects provided by Jo Westfoot, the Crafty Nomad. Mary C has sewed along with several projects including Glitter Ball. I confused her work with that of GnomeAngel. Still, it is fun to explore new sites, especially when they keep their blogs up to … Continue reading “Various & Sundry 2022 #10”
Admin The tutorials page has been updated. Look for links to the posts on how to make bullseye blocks. These are older posts. I ramble quite a bit more on my tutorial posts from back then than I do now. I might rewrite the posts, but for now I am leaving them as is. You … Continue reading “Various & Sundry 2022 #5”
Patterns and Projects Julie, over at the Intrepid Thread, has created a tutorial for an iPad bag in conjunction with Cutting Corners. Aside from the bag being cheerful, I like the directions. There are a ton of photos and the words are pretty clear. This is a long tutorial, so put a new ink cartridge … Continue reading “Various & Sundry 2011 #8”
Reviews I love my Tivo. It is a relatively cheap date in terms of entertainment and after YEARS of never being able to watch a show all the way through, I finally can. The problem turned out to be, over the holidays, that we watched all of our shows. We were home a lot, and … Continue reading “New Year’s Cornucopia”
As you know, I have been thinking of branching out from the Eco Market Tote bag pattern that I have a been using for the past 1.5 years. I saw the Over the Top bag in a recent issue of Quilts & More magazine. That mag is on Facebook, so I get more notifications about … Continue reading “Handbag Finished”
Last week I went to Borders to buy some magazines for the Wellness program at work. I couldn’t help stopping by the hobbies section and picking up a few bits of inspiration. Yes, you do see an issue of Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine in the batch. It had an article on pineapples. Despite my hiatus from … Continue reading “Magazine Indulgence”
Linda and Laura Kemshall are quilt artists extraordinaire. I love their Thr3fold Journal and the straightforwardness (is that a word??) and artistry with which they present their projects. They have come out with a new gift bag pattern via Quilting Arts. I looked at the pattern and it is kind of a backwards bag. What … Continue reading “Bags of the Kemshalls”
I have been feeling, for a long time, how I would like to work on a visual journal – painting, sketching, colored pencils…something. I am an inveterate journal keeper. I have been keeping a journal since about 1980. Perhaps earlier. I have scads of them everywhere. I used to put snippets of things in them … Continue reading “Creative Journals”