Archive | February, 2007

Off the Bookshelf: Puzzle Quilts by Paula Nadelstern

15. February 2007

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Puzzle Quilts,by Paula Nadelstern Actually, this book hasn’t even been on the bookshelf yet, since I just got it! I finished devouring it yesterday while I waited for my daughter at her flute lesson. I love it! It’s just so yummy that devouring is the perfect word! This new book by [...]

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Creativity back on track, I think

13. February 2007

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It’s looking better than it was on Sunday, anyway. I went to the fabric shops as planned today, and didn’t find exactly what I needed (now why doesn’t that surprise me??), but did find some hopefuls. I didn’t get to play right away though, because the day was rather full, with an appointment [...]

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Creativity Derailed

11. February 2007

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Make no mistake, the almost-perfect fabric is indeed here, there’s just not enough of it. Okay, here’s what happens all too regularly lately when I start quilting (it used to be that I never started quilting, because I never stopped quilting, but lately, life gets in the way most of the time :(): Last night [...]

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The 2000 Bloggers Connection

11. February 2007

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Last month, I heard about a project called 2000 Bloggers. The original idea was the brain child of Tino Buntic. In his words: 55 million blogs… I’d like to showcase all of them, but I’ve settled on just 2000 bloggers. Bloggers come from all walks of life! Some are SEO experts. Some are writers. [...]

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A new quilt!!

6. February 2007

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And it’s even mostly finished! This is the new project that I started so that I would have a quilt to use for the Swarovski crystals demo at the guild in March, and I do love the way it turned out. I think if I had to do it again, I would use [...]

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Appliqué Experiments

4. February 2007

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A couple of years ago, sometime before I damaged the tendon sheaths in my hand and wrist, I started a quilt with a Feathered Star in the middle, and I planned to border it with a Jinny Beyer border print. I was kind of hoping to enter the quilt into a show that year. [...]

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