The Two Quilts of Madame X
The location: undisclosed The date: unrevealed The source: anonymous The job: provide quilt history The payoff: images for my files A quilt consultation was set up. Here is the client’s story: I don’t… Continue reading
Tag Archive: scraps
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Must…View…Color…
Last summer we took charge of the family archives, about 12 big cartons full of loose papers and photos. The last few days, I have been working steadily to digitize the family letters… Continue reading
Scrappy Baby Quilt Tops
Months ago, I saw this baby quilt on KatyQuilts, and I just loved it. I loved the inclusion of gray and black into a baby quilt, and the way the colors sometimes moved… Continue reading
Bright Blocks for Gray Days
About five years ago, the coordinator of my quilting group was cleaning out leftovers from group projects, and I took home some of those scraps, including some tiny little nine-patches that were only… Continue reading
From a Shoe Box Full of Scraps
Back in January I bought a lot of fabric from a quilting friend who is moving, and instantly, all my New Year’s resolutions went out the window. Except for one — working with… Continue reading
Setting Options – Opinions Requested
With this cold I’ve had for two weeks, I have felt too foggy to concentrate on anything even slightly complicated, but I have been wanting to sew. So I have spent a little… Continue reading
Textile Treasures
A most generous reader, Ranger Elaine, has sent me some wonderful treasures from her collection. The star of the show is this tiny silk-covered accordion book with quilt scraps in it. Elaine thinks… Continue reading
A Practice Piece for My Practice Piece
This week I had some time to set aside to just practicing free motion quilting, and I decided to work through the book Quilting Wide Open Spaces by Judi Madsen. (When I bought… Continue reading
Pixilated Panels
The first time I heard the word pixilated was long before digital imaging. In the early 1980s, we often spent weekends with some friends on an Arkansas farm. A few times we played… Continue reading
Piecing Together Inspiration
It all started when I saw a post on 16-patch blocks. Sarah of Confessions of a Fabric Addict had a lovely, thorough tutorial on many ways to piece 16-patches, but the part that… Continue reading