Archives for 2011
I’ve been very busy. So busy that by the time I get round to having time to post photos or write something in the evenings, I’m just plain too tired to do it. I think I need to grow a few extra hours in the day for more sleep. I can’t quite say what I’m [...]
Haven’t been here in a while. I’m having trouble finding time for picture-taking, though I’ve been making things both quilty and garment-like. With a friend we decided to make this quilt from the Block Party book together, with one block due every Friday for show and tell. I still have to pick my color scheme; [...]
Here’s my first block for the Bloggers BOM quiltalong organized by Jackie of Canton Village Quilt Works. I love the fabrics and just realized that I really, really want to get more of the background, so I can make a whole quilt with it, and I have no idea what it actually is… I found [...]
Since I really like the pattern, I made another Violet: You can also see my little helper as she tries to knock down the dress form. I confess that for this version I changed the pattern to the point where it’s a mere sliver of it’s former self: I left off the collar, made the [...]
This summer I tried really hard to get back to sewing for real. I find summer sewing to be easy: you can use light, airy cottons, easy to get through the sewing machine, and prints, prints, prints. I don’t actually wear as many prints as my admiration for them would warrant. My favorite summer project [...]
Last week I finished a quilt top for a friend’s baby. I’m rather late with this quilt – the baby’s 3 months old… but maybe it’s better late than never, no? Here it is: It’s a New York quilt for a New York boy of a New Yorker mom – I always think of her [...]
This blog has been dormant for a long time – a half a year or so? Something like that. It’s been a nice record of a particular period of my life but as all blogs, it left a lot out. Old posts aren’t here anymore because it didn’t feel quite right to leave them in [...]
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