a quilter’s journey
Posted in Art Quilts on Jan 21st, 2008
April 16, 2007, I woke up to the news from shootings at a college. As the day unfolded, more dreadful news from Virginia Tech came in. Thirty-two makes visible how many innocent lives have been lost that day. Discharged fabric, Dupioni silk, red flannel, hand stitched THIS QUILT IS FOR SALE
In cleaning up my sewing studio, I regularly find “Orphan Blocks”, usually test blocks or sometimes people give me leftover blocks “you’ll make something great out of it”,, Yeah, well. Curse or blessing? If it becomes a charity quilt, definitely a blessing! Ten orphan blocks with pink centers (I don’t even like pink) mixed up [...]
Posted in Charity on Jan 21st, 2008
Block Party Quilters are very passionate in support of the children at our local Ronald McDonald House. Over the course of 20 years, we made thousands of quilts, and still going. In 2007 alone, 480 quilts where delivered to the facility. Despite a busy year, I managed to make 6 quilts. One of the quilts [...]
Posted in Quilt Shows and Exhibits on Jan 21st, 2008
Jan 17th – Feb 28th, 2008 UW Medical Center Sky Light Gallery Seattle, WA 98105 CQA juried artists Alice’s Garden
Posted in Work in progress on Jan 21st, 2008
Since weeks, I was busy to clean up my working table and get a clean slate for a new project. Having a cluttered working area is only up to a certain point “creative chaos”. After a hard working period, everything seems to pile up, with no time to stow away gadget, fabrics, tester pieces, design sketches [...]
Posted in Quilt Shows and Exhibits on Jan 21st, 2008
Quilters Anonymous presents: “Scaps to Srumptious” – 2008 Quilt Show March 14 – 15 – 16 For more information please see http://www.quiltersanonymous.com/quiltshow.htm
Posted in Quilts on Jan 21st, 2008
A part of this quilt is shown at the blog header. For a full size picture please see http://www.mqinnovations.com/QSWinner%203.htm#creativity After travels to Lisbon/Portugal, I got fascinated by the early navigators. Many of these ships never returned. The Flor de la Mar was on it’s way home, full with treasures and slave girls, taken from Malacca (today’s Malaysia). It [...]
