Playing Dress-up
These are the ladies I aspired to be. I always looked forward to growing up and getting to wear hats and gloves and crystal beads and big shiny brooches, big full skirts with… Continue reading
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Starch or No Starch? What’s Starch?
There are three kinds of people in the world – those who love to iron, those who hate to iron, and those who have no earthly idea what an iron is. I love… Continue reading
Child’s Flour Sack Dress
I got this little dress at an antique shop about 15 years ago, and I’ve always loved it for the creative use of flour sacks. The seamstress didn’t have as much of the… Continue reading
Butterfly Quilt
Between a big mustang grape harvest, a goat with a hernia, and a brief power outage, I haven’t been getting as much quilting done as I would like. But one of the groups… Continue reading
A Manly Textile
The men I know don’t really care about any specific textiles (except those ugly free T-shirts that they manage to collect frequently), but here is one I associate with my dad. He was stationed… Continue reading
Mustang Grapes
For three years, we’ve been living on land that has been in my husband’s family for 50 years, but we are still far from knowing everything about it. Just this weekend as my… Continue reading
Spinsters Gone Wild
Craftswomen are well known for working in groups – quilting bees, spinning retreats, knitting societies… the list goes on. For summer fun, you may be thinking of planning such a Girls’ Night Out,… Continue reading
Textile Teachers – Knitting
When I was seven, my mom arranged for me to have knitting lessons with an older lady, Mary, who lived up the street. Every Saturday I went at two o’clock for an hour’s… Continue reading
Family Textiles: A Tale of Two Shawls
It was the best of textiles, it was the worst of textiles, it was the age of silk, it was the age of wool, it was the epoch of respectibility, it was the epoch… Continue reading
Color Switch
I make mostly crib-size quilts. It’s too hard to manipulate big hunks of material through my regular-size machine. I have enough trouble keeping pieces lined up – when I factor in batting and… Continue reading