Posted in creativity, day to day, quilts, tagged creativity, onion skins, packrat, PFD on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
I have strong vein of , “waste not want not” running in me. Combined with the attitude of, “use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without,” I tend toward a smidgen of packrat. I can’t get rid of something if I can see a potential [...]
Posted in day to day, etsy, quilts, sewing on January 11, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been spending time in the studio working on developing a couple of new patterns. My goal is to have one of them ready for etsy by early next week. Here’s a sneak preview.
Posted in memorial project, quilts, war in Iraq on January 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Go check out my most recent post on the war project. The first 10 + % is now hanging!!!
Posted in food, holidays, quilts on December 31, 2007 | No Comments »
One of my MCQ quilting friends, Sarah, invited a few of the ladies to luncheon. She had received a generous gift of dinner for 4 on the Minnesota Zephyr. We met at Sharon’s in Minneapolis, and arrived just in the nick of time to catch the train. I was running a [...]
Posted in day to day, quilts, self, sewing on December 29, 2007 | No Comments »
What a difference a day makes. Whatever evil took over the last couple of days has vanished. I’m not going to say I’m 100% functional, but sitting up without watching the room spin is a good start.
I have worked a bit on my resume, and applied for a couple of things online. [...]
Posted in quilts on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Leftover Challenge
This is a little challenge pattern I wrote for my friend Lucy’s Quilt shop. I made a shop sample for her, and couldn’t resist turning the leftovers into something fun too. I need to work on photo placement - this seems like the longest post ever.
What can you do with [...]
Posted in day to day, holidays, memorial project, quilts on December 10, 2007 | No Comments »
First things first. Open up another window, and go to Neil’s place and you can listen to the sounds of the season while you read my post about all things holiday. This is the second year Neil has hosted this. Isn’t it a great idea?
Finding myself a little bit more in the holiday [...]
Posted in Minnesota Public Radio, memorial project, quilts on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I have now officially used up 3 minutes of my alloted 15 minutes of fame.
My other blog, And Still Counting, chronicles the progress of a war memorial art quilt that I started last spring. Last week, Bob Collins from Minnesota Public Radio came to my home and took some photos and interviewed me about [...]
Posted in corners of my home, day to day, quilts, tagged out the kitchen window on December 1, 2007 | No Comments »
The word for the day will apparently be SNOW. We’ve been getting notice for days of impending whiteness.
I can’t feel obligated to get dressed and out of the house, because the folks on the radio keep telling me to stay put. Anything I want to do today can be done in my [...]
Posted in Minnesota Public Radio, cleaning, corners of my home, day to day, etsy, memorial project, quilts, tagged A chair - Free for the sitting - in MY house! on November 28, 2007 | No Comments »
If it’s not my organized chaos, it has to be perfect. If it’s perfect, I don’t want to mess it up. It’s really best for me to maintain a certain level of constant near chaos. It’s really just cluttered looking organization. Mess with it and I am lost. [...]
