Dreamlines #2 is complete (apart from handstitching the facing). It’s been so interesting to read your comments on my layout audition images. As you can see, I decided to proceed with the first layout with the concentration of blues and reds on the right-hand side. My decision was influenced by a factor I did not […]
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Progress
It was a day of small accomplishments. Quilt show quilts entrusted to the care of Australia Post to be reunited with their interstate owners (check out this beauty by Pam Hill, exquisitely quilted on her domestic sewing machine). A pink slip obtained and my car registration renewed online – thank you RTA for not forcing […]
Quilting/Art Blogs I Read
Deborah Boschert Lisa Call Kathryn Clark Dijanne Cevaal Gerrie Congdon Helen Conway Terry Jarard-Dimond Sue Dennis Kristin La Flamme Candy Glendenning Terry Grant Diane Perin Hock Francoise Jamart Susan Brubaker Knapp Thomas Knauer Kathy Loomis Kathy Nida Sue Reno Karen Rips Erica Spinks Terri Stegmiller Katherine Tyrell Ruth de Vos Lisa Walton Nikki Wheeler
Reflections on The New Quilt 2008
Erica’s report on The New Quilt 2008 reminds me that I have not yet written about the exhibition myself. So here are some reflections. There were very few large quilts in the selection but there were some interesting dimensions including two long, narrow horizontal pieces and the rotund shape of Dianne Firth’s pineapple-inspired work Cell […]
Connectivity Blues
From a blogging point of view, this trip has not been very successful and things are not likely to improve. Neither David’s sister nor his mother have broadband so we are limited to 15 minutes per day of painfully slow dial-up, most of which is dedicated to dealing with essential e-mails. We have also encountered […]
Think Yellow
This poem by Sam Hunt provides further inspiration for the first Twelve by Twelve challenge: What dandelions think It’s still only early just three o’clock a hot December day and the dandelions already asleep, you say. Not surprising, I suggest. If you’d been throwing a yellow out like that since early this morning you’d need […]