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Jenny |
I have been reading Jenny's blog for years and love how she'll detail the true ins and outs of getting a piece done. With Jenny, she's always happy to give you a peek behind the curtain so you can really see ...
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Jenny |
I have been reading Jenny's blog for years and love how she'll detail the true ins and outs of getting a piece done. With Jenny, she's always happy to give you a peek behind the curtain so you can really see ...
read moreEvery year we try to do something together that is a little different. This year we made a day trip to go down to Pittsburgh to revisit the Carnegie Museum of Art. The last time we were there was 2006ish and so much has changed. The ...
read moreElizabeth Barton's Solo Show at the Georgia Botanical Gardens, Athens, GA |
Attempt 1 - I just thought the petals were too BUSY! |
I am working on the fourth month of the Homeward Bound Quilt from the Quilt Show website. It's the month when we finally get to put all the ...
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Paul's latest coffee Table |
Shhhhhhh, can you keep a secret? My husband, Paul is turning 58 this week and I decided it was
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The man, the myth |
One thing that came out of the Pandemic of 2020, is the fact that I will NEVER take "Date Night" for granted ever again. This week's installment was one for the books! One night a month, the art scene in Erie comes alive to host a Gallery Night. Galleries and small business open their doors to show off what's new.
First stop, was the Grounded Print and Paper Shop. Ever since I've heard about this place, I've been dying to visit. It's a former machine shop warehouse located in a neighborhood where people have been ...
read moreSo does everyone have that one big project that just seems to go on and on with no real end in sight? My English paper pieced pinwheels is that project. It's been going on for ...oh I don't know... 13 years now?? I know I started it in a weak moment. I had finished the 4,200-piece tumbling blocks quilt and thought "Gee I haven't EPP in a while". What happened if I did an improv EPP using just one shape but played with value. At that point I never saw an art quilt improvisationally English paper ...
read moreSo is anybody else doing their spring cleaning? Since this is my 30th year of quilting, I thought it would be a good time to downsize the stash that I've been collecting all this time. Recently we did over our dressing room/fabric closet and this is as far as we've gotten.
The Before
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Notice what great shelves the upcycled church pews made? |
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Me stitching in my studio watching the Mentalist...again |
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Houses, Mabel Hewit, 1936 |
This week I went down the rabbit hole they call Pinterest, only to rediscover my love of woodcut art. Woodcut is a relief printing process in which knives and other tools are used to carve a design into the surface of a wooden block. The raised areas that remain after the block has been cut are inked and printed, while the recessed areas that are cut away do not retain ink, and will remain blank in the final print. It is a very positive/negative area kind of printing! I always thought woodcut printing was interesting ...
read moreReally I have no idea where the week has gone! I've been working all day and then stitching for a few hours every night. One thing I can say is that being this productive really doesn't make for really interesting blogging! (sorry!) So I thought I would just show you the progress I've made on my three main projects!
Project I - Homeward Bound BOM Quilt - Month 2
OMGoodness!! How could it take me this long to hand applique these little suckers?!? When I first started quilting (BT - before Tessa), I would do hand applique blocks in the ...
read moreYa know, even though I don't put much belief in astrology, I can totally see myself fitting nicely under
Why is it that an organizational project always looks worse before it gets better? I knew this would be a big job but WoW it's a really big job. I had no idea how much stuff I had stashed in that room over the years. I am taking it seriously though and as promised I'm documenting as I go. I decided that I'm going to have three piles....fabric that is organized by color.....fabric that is organized by collection .... fabric that is going to be donated to the sewing programs at the Erie City Mission. The ...
read moreI'm not doing any borders because I personally hate borders (grin).
The only thing left to do is sew up the columns and layer the top for ...
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Homeward Bound, Sarah Fielke, The Quilt Show's BOM 2023 |
I was also blessed by my husband who gave me a year ...
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