free motion quilting

Before I left home, I finished Rooflines # 10. This piece was inspired by the houses in the distance tucked into the Green Mountains that you can see at dusk. ©Colleen Kole , 2013, “Rooflines # 10, 70 x 82 I did use free motion quilting on this piece changing colors with the […] Read More...

It feels so good to be finished with this piece. I really struggled with it but only because I had never used free motion quilting to finish a piece this large. So, as I was documenting and taking pictures, I wrote a long list of what I learned: 1. Always test […] Read More...

I just keep thinking-oh silly me. Normal people start small and then when they feel comfortable in a skill, they move on to a larger project. Nope. Not me. I just plunge right in and hope for the best. I am way too impatient to wait until my skills improve. ( Can you […] Read More...

It was a slow moving process with this piece. It began as a small little idea and a small portion of this design was pinned on my wall for many months. I kept taking it down and putting it back up again and it was assuming this grandiose design idea in my head. […] Read More...

We made it here before the big storm last week. We only received about 14 inches here in Vermont but the wind kept us inside Friday and Saturday. On Sunday I was rewarded by bright sunshine. And it didn’t take me long to strap on my snowshoes and take a two hour hike […] Read More...

I have journeyed back to Michigan (yup, a mixed up summer) late Sunday night and hit the ground running with all things art in my world. More tomorrow for you on that. But today I had a long awaited playmate with my very talented friend Terri Watson. She is a […] Read More...