Trinket Treasures
I don’t like it when stores start putting up Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving. But if you intend to give handmade gifts for Christmas, you have to start early, so I am going to… Continue reading
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Starting Them Out Right
When you’re a crafts person and you have a child, you tend to hope that they will follow you down the satisfying road of creativity. You start them off with handmade outfits and… Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge – Geometry
For this week’s photo challenge, I chose some pictures I took at Hoover Dam this spring. They are not the best photos, but they do illustrate something I am interested in – the… Continue reading
International Quilt Festival, Part Two
(You may want to start imagining the Mission Impossible music playing in the background). Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to rescue textiles that might otherwise fall into the wrong… Continue reading
International Quilt Festival, Part One
Here are some of the fabulous quilts I saw today. I went through the exhibits in about an hour, so I didn’t come close to seeing everything. I love being allowed to take… Continue reading
Hoops Humor
I’m going to the International Quilt Festival tomorrow, so I have to rest up! So here is just a quick post for tonight, but I’m pretty sure I’ll have plenty to report from… Continue reading
My 100th Post!
It wasn’t long after I started blogging that I found the wonderful blog, the Dancing Professor, and one of the first posts I read there asked, “Who are you writing for?” I thought… Continue reading
Books on the Nightstand, Books on the Kindle, Part Two
Art books for less than half their listed price, old out-of-print books for free, books that I didn’t even know existed now magically recommending themselves to me, huge books that can now fit… Continue reading
Books on the Nightstand, Books on the Kindle, Part One
When someone asks me, “Kindle or real book?” my answer is “Both.” I will take any book I can get in any form. I love being able to carry 50 or so books… Continue reading
Waltz Across Textiles
Barbers, bartered brides, and bullfighters, – they all get their own operas. Pirates, demons, tsars, student princes – they’re all thrilling characters, but if you ask me, textile artists are seriously underrepresented in… Continue reading