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hat fun to have a week with lots of sewing and art! Not necessarily in chronological order: I got to attend the Quilt, Craft, Sewing and Needle-Art Supply Show in nearby Roseville last Thursday and in real life met a Facebook friend – Kari Kurley, a BERNINA Rep. Among many other things, Kari heads up a private BERNINA Yahoo group that I belong to. I get to learn about all things BERNINA through the questions and posts. Kari wrote that she was going to be at the show and I was hoping to meet her while there. She was…
I’ve got two short posts this week. I separated them because they are on two different subjects. You can find the other post here. I had an odd week of in between-ness; I just made that up. I was in between projects, a little lost as to what to do. Both of the following projects are in Time Out until I figure out what I want to do with them: This needs a better fit before I cut up a precious quilt to make a fabulous quilted coat. And this trapunto piece, sigh. It has taken so long to complete…
I’ve got two short posts this week. I separated them because they are on two different subjects. You can find the other post here. I made a discovery this week – I unwittingly did a Consumer Reports type of test to find the best rotary cutter and I have a clear winner. Background first: I wrote last week about making kits for my Houston students. Every student will have a kit of quilt sandwiches to work with at the Houston Int’l Quilt Festival. By the way, you can still sign up for my classes. See my summary at the end of…
It’s been a fun week – I got to got to go to an actual live County Fair, I’m at a turning point on my quilted jacket, and I got a good head-start on my Houston kits. The Amador County Fair was held over the weekend. I knew from trying to attend another recent local fair that people are hungry for such things and I’d better get there early. Indeed I did, and when I left 90 min later the line of cars to get in was a mile long! They really decked out the fairgrounds too: And there was…
It has been a scattered kind of week, a real luxury. I didn’t have to focus on some deadline or project, just work on what I wanted to! I’ve long wanted to work up this muslin, which will be a prototype of a jacket I want to make from this failed quilt. It is actually a gorgeous quilt but it has too many issues to resolve. I’m going to eventually make it into a quilted jacket and it will be gorgeous! I’m using a tried-and-true pattern: I’m making view c, the green one. I suspect I will need to petite…
Yes, my Grandson (and his parents) came for the weekend! I won’t post full photos of Little Man but look at those dimples? I’m a first-time Gramma so indulge me. They are just so stinkin cute at this age. He is starting to pontificate just a little bit. His Dad did that….still does:-) And my youngest son from Tucson came for the weekend too! We had him for 3 days, Little Man and his parents for one. Such is life for busy parents. It filled my Mommy heart to have my whole family here. Here is the frig post-apocalypse…
NOTE: I’ve got two posts this week. It just didn’t make sense to mix them together so I’ve got another post here about quilting density. Gimme a minute and we’ll get to the blood thing, okay? It’s been a teaching kind of week, a fabulous one! 25 engaged, prepared and enthusiastic students joined me from the Charlotte Quilters Guild for a Saturday of Start With a Square. Hubby and I lived in Charlotte for 4 years when our boys were early elementary, 1995 – 1999, pre-Jenny quilting days. It brought back great memories of our time there. Sometimes I get a…
NOTE: I’ve got another post this week here. I’ve been working on this white silk quilt for some time, maybe a year on-and-off? I recently restarted it and I’m doing fills around the feather tips. This is a great example of how much impact dense quilting can have on what it surrounds. Those feathers are looking pretty blah, like they are going to fade into the background. But I’m not done! BTW, those dots are trapunto’d. Filling in those tiny areas really makes an impact. See how those feathers tips pop with dense quilting next to them? That is a…
If you are of a certain age, you may remember the book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance“. It was first published in 1974, just as I ran out of money for college and entered my hippie chick years. At the time I remember feeling influenced by the book, yet I don’t think I really did much with it other than think I was cool because I read it, I had a motorcycle and I maintained my own motorcycle. The young 20’s mind is soooo deep. A little bit of background to understand how this all fits into…
I took a great class this week from South African quilter, Telene Jeffries, aka Lady Jane Quilting. Telene is a superb and delightful instructor and patient with inept students, which I was in this class. The class was live on-line “Couched Applique as you Quilt“. I have not previously been successful with couching despite repeated tries. Yes, I know you need just the right kind of yarn/cord/thread and I have tried many. So I was excited about this class! Telene is primarily a long-armer (Handi Quilter) and oh by the way, one of her quilts will hang at Houston this…