Babies and other pretty things

I’m having fun with this baby stuff! Baby quilts are so quick to make. I have this cartoon in my head that my son and DIL will arrive for Thanksgiving in their Subaru Outback and leave pulling a 15′ trailer full of baby things that Gramma made, LOL! I think I need to pump the…

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Babies and bubbles

It’s not surprising that I have Baby on my mind. I’ve kinda gone overboard on this, you’ll see what I mean. It started so innocently…. I got this panel at Meissner Folsom, cute huh? It’s for taking photos as Baby grows. You put Baby down in the lower left-hand corner and put something around the…

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Life – Virtual and otherwise

When the world began to change, I quickly realized I was going to have to adapt or go home. So adapt I did, kicking and screaming. Now that we’re 7 months into this I am accepting that our current norm may stick around for a long while. This week’s casualty was the in-person Road to…

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A fruitful week!

It’s been a productive week but I don’t have a lot in the way of visuals to document the week. I have some Really Big News that I can’t talk about yet that I’m both pumped and terrified of (it has something to do with the Houston Quilt Festival). I’ll write about it as soon…

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Trapunto revival!

Last week I wrote about how my friend and dyer Linda Waddle kindly offered to over-dye my languishing whole cloth trapunto quilt. The silk had faded from a delightful icy blue to a putrid yellow/blue/gray mix. Linda and I rolled on thickened dye as a Hail Mary move – what did I have to lose?…

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