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In less than 3 years and 2 months, I will be 60! People are generally not eager to grow older, but I believe that the perks of age and wisdom more than make up for the laugh lines and grey hair (which I've had for over 15 years anyway!)

60 will begin the next phase of my life - Fibre Artist!

So, how am I going to get ready for the fibre artist phase of my life without living in the future? Well, pretty ...

Hey! How are you? I've missed you guys! We find ourselves a week down the road since our last chat, now located in Alamosa, Colorado, just outside Great Sand Dunes National Park. It's been quite a week of adventure, and I'm going to catch you up on what we've been doing via a series of time-traveling posts. There's so much to tell you, and I wish I could have been keeping up all along. We had no wi-fi in Taylor Park (our previous destination), and we had a very weak cell signal. Anything I could ...

Hey! How are you? I've missed you guys! We find ourselves a week down the road since our last chat, now located in Alamosa, Colorado, just outside Great Sand Dunes National Park. It's been quite a week of adventure, and I'm going to catch you up on what we've been doing via a series of time-traveling posts. There's so much to tell you, and I wish I could have been keeping up all along. We had no wi-fi in Taylor Park (our previous destination), and we had a very weak cell signal. Anything I could ...

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People often say to me things like – “You’re so patient” or “I could never do that, it’s so tedious.” What I want to tell them is that I am so NOT patient. I am incredibly impatient, so much so that as a child my impatience was something often commented on by others, not just… Continue reading Coping by Stitching

I am left-handed. While only about 10% of the population is left-handed, there are a great many who work in the arts. I don’t know that a greater percentage of artists are left handed than in the regular population, but I do know that we lefties have had to come up with a great many… Continue reading Left-Handed in a Right-Handed World

This is one of those questions that guarantees the page will remain blank, the canvas untouched, the design wall bare. This is a question best left unasked. It’s like asking, “Do I look fat?” Whatever the answer, it will do nothing to placate the nagging doubt. Ask 100 people how they define “art” and you… Continue reading But is it Art?

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new blue embroidery thread

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embroidering pages, a ledger of stitch

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I'm hand quilting again after quite a hiatus.  My hands and fingers can't work like they used to, so in between sessions of hand quilting, other things were happening.

My lovely hexie wall hanging is the chosen project.  With all that embroidery, there was no way this was going to be machine quilted.  It would not have done justice to all that hand work.

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hand embroidered needlecase

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hand embroidery

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We got out early from La Grande yesterday morning, headed toward Heyburn, Idaho, and a park we've stayed at before. It's a nice park for just passing through on a journey to anywhere else. We stopped to fill up our fuel tank on the way out of La Grande. Mike noticed the tire pressure on one of the rear truck tires had gone down overnight, which seemed unusual. He noticed it back home too, and so he said to me, "I think one of our back tires has a slow leak." Famous last words, right? But on we ...