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so glad heavy snow this morning didn’t keep me from going to the gym, or from going to this workshop led by the patient and talented ray pierotti in leisa rich’s fun, inspiring studio.
working with inkodye (a photo synthetic dye), spray acrylic paints, and colored pencils, we applied numerous layers to untreated canvas. even after [...]

today horizontal stitching, going from side to side - which of course makes me look fatter. love how all the stitching is giving this vintage tablecloth-turned-quilt (dare i say it) body. with all the ideas and images that bubble up as i sew, i’m going to have to live to be another 202 years to [...]

just a teensy little time to stitch today (so far) and nothing picture worthy as i’m still just stitching, stitching, stitching on what i call the basic, infrastructure level. next stage of unfolding on both works should start soon.
stray thoughts that kept me company today when i shoved the ubiquitous work aside and began stitching [...]

throughout my life, i have shared the table with many people who have nourished me. my maternal grandmother is one.
she loved to cut grass, quilt, cook, preserve foods, make pickles, grow flowers, and enter cake contests. as a young woman, she attended college on a piano scholarship for one year before her father decided there [...]

“Of all the Elwell family Aunt Mehetabel was certainly the most unimportant member,” began Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s story called The Bedquilt.
Aunt Mehetabel had never been married, and as the official old maid of the family, she lived with her brother’s family to help take care of the children, clean the house, grow, cook, and preserve [...]