Tomorrow (October 1) is the reveal for the latest 12 X 12 challenge, Shelter. I will post the final piece I did for that in the morning. Tonight, I want to share the piece I did first and that I ultimately rejected for the challenge. I am not sure whether I have mentioned on my [...]

The notices from Quilt National came a week early, by e-mail, and took me by surprise. That was a good thing, I think. I didn’t have a chance to fret about it. Anyway, I, and many other much more accomplished fiber artists, did not get in. So, I am going to post my pieces here [...]

Next to Mr C, Paul Newman has to be the one guy who could make my heart go pitter patter. Here is the young hunk next to the older, ill, but still handsome, Paul. He was a true renaissance man — great actor, a kitchen guru, an entrepreneur, race car driver, liberal do-gooder, consummate and [...]

As I work on my two shelter pieces, I keep thinking of phrases with shelter in them: give me shelter, shelter in place, temporary shelter, homeless shelter… I finished the quilting on shelter piece #1. It needs some fine tuning and facings. I started work on the simpler (ha!) #2. Here is the thing — [...]

Today was the last Farmer’s Market for the season. Mr C gathered up our knives so that we could have them sharpened while we shopped. The sharpener was very busy because we were not the only ones who wanted to catch them on the last day. What a treat to have nice, sharp knives. Here [...]