Articles tagged with 'quilting' — 16 found
Use for a vintage sari
bits of a vintage sari mixed well with other fabrics I love I tend to buy fabrics when I see them and adore them, and not when I need them or have any particular project in mind. Add to this my Mom, who sees great deals on small tidbits and passes them along to me [...]
May 6th, 2012I love: Triangles
I have been obsessing over the triangles and colors in this quilt, by Blue is Bleu, for several days now, since it came up on my Pinterest feed. I’ve sketched it several times, poorly as I am wont to do, because I just can’t get it out of my head. Triangles and their bold geometry [...]
April 18th, 2012P/L Quilt, a lesson in modern quilting
I’ve finished a baby quilt that is now my second foray into modern, improvisational quilting. But really, it is my first venture, as the other modern quilt I am thinking of, which I made for Ben, was based on an image in a book, and though each square was shaped differently from the last–each one [...]
April 4th, 2012Graphic room: little corners
These are some corners of my room that I love to live in, and look at. Photographs, fabrics, drawings and corners that truly make me happy, and bring me inspiration– for projects, and for happy days. I love hours spent in my room, doing work or play. cats + quilts desk back of a baby [...]
March 23rd, 2012A day with Marie
Marie buying some new embroidery patterns from the very talented artist Momo-Dini I took the day off work to spend time with my friend Marie, and go to the Sewing & Quilt Expo in Atlanta for the first time. She was quite delighted when we first met to discover I quilted, as she has three [...]
March 9th, 2012Medical journal reports, quilting is good for you
A recent blog post was sent my way by a friend, on the recent medical findings on the benefits of quilting on your health. I am happy to report the findings, which people who quilt (and I am one) have long suspected. The Relationship Between Quilting and Well-Being Emily Burt & Jacqueline Atkinson Journal of [...]
February 23rd, 20121988: “History will record…”
An incredibly powerful photo from Cleve Jones’s book. He says: "Here I am with the friends of Zoel St. Sauver at his panel, 1988. For many of us, AIDS was our World War II, our Vietnam. This photograph reminds me of the classic memorial to Iwo Jima. All of us in the picture were HIV [...]
February 12th, 2012Visiting the AIDS Memorial Quilt
The squares are bigger than you could even imagine. They command the room, the space. What a powerful source of memory, of honoring those who we have lost to AIDS. As I have written about a few times already , I have been exploring the many squares on the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and have been remembering [...]
January 23rd, 2012A “plan” for 2012
2012 Goals Find a full-time job. A real one, with a salary, in an urban area, and most importantly, in my field. Graduate with my Master’s in Heritage Preservation (on track for May). Requisite fitness goal: will exercise on a more regular basis, and cross train rather than just get on a cardio machine and [...]
January 3rd, 2012Single Girl quilt face, done
Me excited to see the quilt in baby-size, 4 complete circles. At this point I had 12 left to combine. This fall I took my first quilt class, at Whipstitch Fabrics in Atlanta, because I wanted to tackle a quilt design based in circular design. In particular, I had long coveted Denyse Schmidt’s Single Girl [...]
December 11th, 2011