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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 [...]

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 [...]

worked on more infrastructure stitching on autoquiltography l today. funny how this quilt (and others to follow) came as what i call a flash image because it (they) appeared to me out of the blue and quicker than a wink. for the imagination quilt i’m working on, however, the materials came first. i’m just “transcribing” [...]

muscle memory is such a good thing. finally reacquainted with my sewing machine - the one i haven’t used in decades, the one with a bobbin in need of a refill.
but i could not remember how to wind the bobbin. until finally i told my brain to shush and turned the job over to my [...]

deciding to work with what i have in order to satisfy hands that are restless and itching to get moving (everything still in nc), began work on found crewel piece. no thinking, i said, just selecting, cutting, joining. the why’s, if there are any, will bubble to the surface in their own good time. here’s [...]

I’d lived in Ready for years.
I’ve been in Set for months.
Today I am in Go. Gogh. Gough.
Years ago, I had this image flash into my mind, and ever since then I’ve longed to quilt it. “Well, then why haven’t you?” you might very well ask, and the answer is “‘Cause.” Other people needed me - [...]