Casual Blouse Finished

I finished the casual blouse I decided to make as my first foray back into garment sewing in a long time.  I wasn’t able to get a good picture of myself wearing it because no one is around today to take a picture for me, but here it is on a hanger.  It looks better [...]

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On Integrity, Quality, and Service

Yesterday I finally received the December (yes, December!) installment of the Tour of DC Sock Club yarn from Neighborhood Fiber Company.  It is well over a month late and included no fiber content or gauge estimate. Nor was there the expected link for the pattern and the promised virtual tour of a DC site.

Late delivery [...]

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UFO Challenge

I went to a great meeting of the Meherrin Piecemakers Quilt Guild last night.  We set the calendar for the year–I’m going to do a demo in July on hand dyeing fabrics for quilts–had some great show and tell–I forgot my camera again –and got a challenge.  
The challenge is to go through [...]

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No Rest (or Fiber) Time

It was an overload work weekend (and first of the week) so I have had zero time for anything fun.
But I did get in contact with BJ Briner, an artist in New Mexico that I want to interview for my D.Min. class, and she’s willing to have me visit. So now we just have [...]

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Two New and Different Projects

I have finally gotten just a little bit tired of knitting socks.  That doesn’t mean I will stop knitting them.  I just won’t work on them as totally as I have been. I’m still working away on the Cable Ribbed Socks that I started earlier this month, but I’ve made a mistake somewhere and it [...]

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On Creativity

I’m spending a lot of my creative time this week think about and preparing to get started on a project for my Creativity and Spirituality Doctor of Ministry class project.  It is supposed to be something in the visual arts and preferably something I’ve never tried before.  
So I have some ideas and I’m doing [...]

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Retro Quilt Show Final

I do have a couple of other pieces that were completed in the 1990’s, but this is the last one I’m going to show in my Retro Quilt Show.  The other pieces are “liturgical” pieces that were designed specifically as biblical interpretation for use in worship or meditation.  I’ll show those pieces at another time.

This [...]

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More Retro Quilt Show

One of the last pieces in my Retro Quilt Show is a small mariner’s compass wall hanging that I made for a silent auction when I was living in Iceland in 1990.

This piece is completely hand pieced and quilted.
I don’t remember how much it actually went for, but it was a good amount.  I’ve made [...]

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Switching Gears

I’m back from Washington and now have to get to work on some projects that will be due for my Doctor of Ministry classes over the next couple of months.  I have a few writing projects and one major art project.
The major project will be one for Creativity and Spirituality.  We’ve been challenged to complete [...]

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Retro Quilt Show – 12

The second assignment in the EGA Master Craftsman Program in Quilt Making was applique with lattices and border.  For colors, an analogous scheme was to be used.

I named this quilt “It’s Tulip Time” and purchased the fabric and completed the quilt while we were living in Iceland in 1989 to 1991.  This quilt was also [...]

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