Commentary about works in progress, design & creativity
This article is a set of notes from the color module of my design for quiltmakers class. Your first design choice is to choose your own colors. If you buy a pattern and use the fabrics you enjoy (not the fabrics in the pattern) you have made the first step in designing your own quilts. … Continue reading “Design Class: Color”
Supply List Below are the basic supplies I use when I teach my quilt class. I have also included others supplies I like and use when I make my own quilts. I will update this page as new items come to my attention. Most of the links are affiliate links. If you click and buy, … Continue reading “Supplies I Like and Use”
Julie reminded me about the Year of Colour, so I decided to try it again. I wasn’t on IG much towards the end of the year, so I was curious to see if I got rid of more of the neutrals than showed up last year. Nope. Those neutrals still dominate, darn it! I have … Continue reading “Year of Colour”
Admin The design series came up after the CQFA meeting a couple of weeks ago. I went back to look at the posts and found a number of the images broken. They are now all fixed. Go and take a look. Projects, Patterns & Tutorials AllPeopleQuilt.com has a list of bag patterns. I am pretty … Continue reading “Various & Sundry 2019 #2”
As mentioned recently, I went to Disneyland Resort with my SILs and nieces. I always get a lot of inspiration when I go there. I wonder if I would be happy wandering around by myself in an empty park just looking at the detail. I notice that I had taken pictures of motifs I had … Continue reading “Mosaic Inspiration”
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I was thinking about the holiday. It is a good holiday. Lots of family and no gifts that gets short shrift with all of the retail crazy. I stay out of shops during this weekend. This has not been a great year for us for a lot of reasons, but … Continue reading “Thanksgiving Aftermath”
I am kind of slacking on Various & Sundry posts this year for some reason. Oh well, life, I suppose, or just busyness. Doing Good I have mentioned Covered in Love projects before. Valerie of Evening in the Garden Quilts contributes regularly. If you need just need to sew, this group will take all the … Continue reading “Various & Sundry 2018 n.6”
I mentioned on Twitter (see sidebar if you want to follow me) that my Oliso had started to have problems. I could deal with them for awhile, but the poor thing just became exhausted and confused and I had to reach out for tech support. Tech support for an iron sounds weird, but I think … Continue reading “Contemplating Irons”
The Fussy Cut Sampler: 48 Quilt Blocks from Your Favorite Fabrics by Nichole Ramirez On first glance, this is a block dictionary. In leafing through the book, I see some classic blocks and others that appear to be modern adaptations of classics. The difference is the fussy cutting and the modern fabrics. The book has … Continue reading “Book Review: The Fussy Cut Sampler”
ColorPlay and the Creative Spark will return soon! Yay! This set is finished! A little more than a year after I got it, it is finished, signed, sealed and sent off. The quilt in this set was probably the easiest part. I did a pillowcase binding and then sunk the threads. It is a pretty … Continue reading “Finished: Hansel and Gretel Set”
ColorPlay and the Creative Spark will return soon! I finally cut out the apron I had in mind for one of my nieces. Not great progress, but a start. The pattern is an old Simplicity pattern. I think I bought it for a sewing class I took after I graduated from college. I noticed the … Continue reading “Superhero Apron”
ColorPlay and the Creative Spark will return soon! Day 2 of QuiltCon 2018 started out slowly. We didn’t have any classes and our lecture wasn’t until late, so we lazed around a little bit in the hotel. It may not have been the wisest move, because I poured hot water all over my hand and … Continue reading “QuiltCon 2018 Day 2”
New York Beauties & Flying Geese: 10 Dramatic Quilts, 27 Pillows, 31 Block Patterns by Carl Hentsch I am a fan of both Flying Geese and New York Beauties. The recent combinations of the two that have been cropping up on Instagram are very appealing. While I have about a thousand projects on my want-to-do … Continue reading “Book Review: NY Beauties and Flying Geese”
Nota bene: Clearly, I have to make sure I have two extra days worth of posts ready to publish before I go on a trip. I returned on Wednesday night from Phoenix, but have been so busy the past two days that I didn’t finish either this post or the ColorPlay postI had planned to … Continue reading “Finished: Boxcar Tote”
“Retail, in our capitalist society, has cornered the market on creativity in so many ways” (pg.53). I have to say that the opening line makes me happy and sad. Sad, because retail=shopping=spending money, sometimes unnecessarily. Happy, because creative people work in retail who create beautiful environments that are free to peruse. We have to just … Continue reading “Creative Spark #12: Go Window Shopping”