DreamWeaver's Quilts Quilt Epiphany Weblog

I spent most of the last week deep in the creativity zone, trying to solve the problem with the background for the Elemental Changes quilt. I feel like I must be on Plan Z by now, though it’s really not quite that bad, I suppose. If you recall, I’d decided that the pale green and [...]

Here’s where the current project, Elemental Changes, is at the moment: This is one quarter of the quilt on the design wall, minus some background/fill in pieces. I finally decided that I needed to see it on the wall instead of just imagining it in my head, so I put it up this morning. My [...]

The carefully chosen palette for my next current project has been sitting there on the cutting table since I took a picture of it to share, over a week ago (it has now entered “current” project status, as you’ll see). It’s not that I don’t want to work on it, I do, other things keep [...]

I promised myself that I wouldn’t bore you with further tales of settling into the new house, or the lovely day I had today visiting with the washer repair man, the transportation inspector from the Army, and the plumber, all of whom were here today, trooping through the house in wet shoes (it’s raining here [...]

The new quilting space is set up and ready to rock. Here’s the view of the winter garden end as you come up the stairs: Then looking left, you’ll see my new desk space, and between the desk and the winter garden windows is the bookshelf with all the quilting and computer programming books. Continuing [...]

…in more ways than one. On the creative side, here’s the latest batch of Inchies (click to see them bigger): I started this small set with the sample chunk of Fast2Fuse that I had here, and some Caryl Bryer Fallert Ombre Stripe fabric that I picked up at her shop in Paducah last time I [...]

And it’s the thinking part that usually gets me into trouble, you know. Here’s the deal: While I was machine quilting this little wallhanging (it’s “just a get.it.done. item off of the Creativity List:, you remember), I was really enjoying myself. Well, except for those insane arguments with the OCQ and the frogging anyway. But [...]