In mid 2012 I was invited by Meta Heemskerk of the Netherlands to join her new site, Galleribba, a site devoted to featuring small, affordable art works by new and established artists from around the world. This week Galleribba was featured in an article on Textile Artist. Take a few minutes to read about Galleribba […]
Archives for November 2012
Forget Me Not, Collaboration with Grandma
I am very much enjoying having the Forget Me Not quilt home, hanging in a prominent place. While it was hanging at the gallery I made the label for it. It was a great opportunity for me to salvage yet another small treasure from Grandma, a piece of broderie perse that I removed from a […]
Happy Anniversary
Last year I was inspired to felt some dryer lint. When my friend Shari saw this she brought me some of her lint. Initially I thought “Oh no!” I mean really, what if all my friends brought me dryer lint and expected something to be created from it? So I did the only thing I […]
Wordless Wednesday
Door in the Garden
During the summer I swapped a trellis that wasn’t being used for a door my friend Peter no longer needed. We’re both happy. Today the door was installed in our back yard. Here you can see the rather uninteresting side of the house: the hill is being terraced to create long flat spots so the […]
More From IQF Houston
There were so many incredible quilts at the Houston show! Here are a few more that I especially enjoyed. Suspicion by Tanya Brown is a diminutive quilt of 11 inches square. Tanya used Tsukineko ink, watercolor and free-motion quilting on cotton fabric for this original design. Poly Dressler Bech said she played with solar printing […]
International Quilt Festival Houston
I’m still a’flutter from my trip to IQF in Houston. Jenny Lyon was my travel partner and we were a perfect combo — she is high energy and kept me on my toes. She started posting about the show before we left Houston. You can see what she had to say about it here. When […]
Early Girl Tomato Marmalade
Our Early Girl tomato plants have been very productive this year. We’ve enjoyed the fruit steadily all summer and, even though it’s November, the fruit continues to ripen in our mild weather. Time to try another of Rachel Saunders’ recipes from The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook! I love marmalade so what could be better than […]