In between long visits at my mom’s to take care of her and my dad, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the sewing room. Not all of it quilting related, but getting some unfinished projects done or just a little bit farther down the road. Some of this came about because I starred [...]
Categories: Quilts and Other Crafts
I sew. You might have figured that out by now. And usually I sew quilts. It’s very straightforward, somewhat geometric, somewhat simple sewing. I used to make clothes. Or try to anyway. Not that my sewing wasn’t up to snuff, but my patience for the amount of alteration needed to make a pattern actually fit [...]
Categories: Life,Quilts and Other Crafts,Small Change
Tagged: sewing, small steps, success
Apparently, part of why I couldn’t get anything posted was my obsession with a commission I took on. A friend from the Chorus ran into me at the fabric store one day and thus discovered I quilted. Which led to my taking on a new t-shirt quilt project. That included all kinds of stuff besides [...]
Categories: Quilts and Other Crafts
I’d love to use the excuse that my sewing machine was stuck in limbo land during the year of remodeling. And then I went off to NY for six months. But no. Sadly, I just took a danged long time to make these guys. The baby quilt (which is lovely but too narrow) was meant [...]
Categories: Quilts and Other Crafts
I’m beginning to think there are a lot of blind people* on twitter. How else to explain the backgrounds that run horizontally behind the tweets where they can’t be seen? How else to explain – no lie – the guy with the white text on a white background? How else to explain the tiling images [...]
Categories: Quilts and Other Crafts
Tagged: bad design, blind, design, twitter
on November experiment: Scheduling myself for strategic success
