improvisational quilting

Summer has ended with a return to warm temperatures and a big sigh of relief. I love the last few weeks when you have fully sunk into sleeping in and reading lots of useless novels. Haha-that didn’t happen round here and August has kept me busy and happy. Highlights from the month: 1. After moving […] Read More...

It was truly a mirage, a delusion, an outright lie I told myself. I really, truly believed that by making this piece, I would have a new, empty drawer to fill up with 2014 scraps. It took me the entire week of my design/ piecing time that I had allotted for the week. ( […] Read More...

I have to admit it started awhile ago. I opened one of the drawers next to my sewing machine and I found a whole boatload of curvy fabrics from a workshop. I know it was a Nancy Crow workshop but I am not sure which one. I quickly shut the drawer knowing I was deep […] Read More...

I thought I would be showing you a finished piece at the end of this week. It always takes longer than I think it will. When I went to put the binding on tonight, I realized that I had a huge spot of machine oil on my piece. I took a […] 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...

When I get to a certain point making these improvisational quilts, I ask myself the same question. Who is going to win: the quilt or I? Now, being a fairly determined person, I hate to lose. So, the story of this little quilt began when I purchased a group of […] Read More...

Back and better. I just had reached my quota of “mean” for the week I guess. 🙂 I would miss my friends if I quit blogging is the bottom line. Yes, I would. You put up with me in all my wonderful moods…. I have kept sewing the past week.Usually after […] Read More...

I did. I just soaked up every minute of the Barn last week for the Improvisations class given by Nancy Crow. It was a tough class for me-quick paced and some of the art concepts were obviously things I hadn’t really thought of fully before I design a quilt. Or even knew. Nancy […] Read More...

I was rattling around in a cupboard and I found a lovely blue enamel pot. I looked inside of it and not a speck of rust or chip inside of it. Perfect for bundles I thought to myself. I forgot I had bought it last year at a yard sale. So, I scrounged […] Read More...

I am trying in some small way trying to redeem myself from my last small piece. It didn’t really portray what I wanted it too. So I tried again- I just wanted a simple abstract piece which reflected the colors of my Vermont meadow. This is too simple for me so I guess […] Read More...

Lemonjello 10×11 I think as I was laying in bed last night, I have a plan for the next month. As I complete the classes that I have started online, I will just work small. Now, I may tire of that and completely change my mind, but I feel relief in just giving […] Read More...

I really love to read what I read the day before – and then laugh at what I have written. I am making a costume for one of those silly high school events. decided to be Jessie and Woody from Toy Story. I thought ok that will be easy. Fabric obtained and ready […] Read More...

That is a really lame title. But my tired little brain can’t think of anything else. I was having sewing machine issues so went to newly bought -used machine-but that was having problems too! But my very dear local dealer replaced it with another used machine and this one is sewing just perfectly […] Read More...

The last five days have been beautiful-in the 70’s and for the most part sunny. We did a few projects around the house and then decided to go to Burlington on Friday. It was really windy on Lake Champlain. Also visited art galleries, took in a baseball game and just people watched on the […] Read More...

My husband, Marc, came back yesterday to spend the next five days with us. He came early enough in the day that we were able to take a day trip and enjoy some of the pretty countryside here.I love choosing new places to check out here. The weather has been especially nice and […] Read More...

The question was asked by Betsy-so are you doing any sewing this summer? Well, I admit I have been a stuck. Not really having any focus and distracted by the craziness of my life lately. I know it’s summer and I do have less time to sew but just stuck —But just stuck. […] Read More...

I finally feel like I can relax a little bit. Erin, my 19 year old, had her MRI done today of her neck and amazingly enough, everything looks good. She can return to normal activity gradually and can return to driving. Does she have to? I don’t want her to. Good luck with that […] Read More...

Happy 4th of July my friends. Hope you enjoy the freedoms that we have here in America. I pieced this little flag this week and it’s not yet quilted. Ever since Robin Ferrier did a flag about a year ago, I have wanted to do one too. Super easy and just what I needed to get going […] Read More...

I am dreaming of the fairy that is going to get me off my duff , wave her magic wand and sprinkle lots of magic dust and then I will finish something wonderful. And then I will write this amazing blog post and have a million followers. Hah..my dream continues and ….I am […] Read More...

Taking pictures of my pieces throughout the process doesn’t come naturally for me yet. I always have to stop myself and shoot a picture. Sometimes the mistakes are glaring and other times subtle. I think that actually downloading them to the computer takes it a step farther and I see even more […] Read More...