projects i'm still working on

I love finishing a project as much as starting one.  There's so much satisfaction in knowing that I made something with my hands that ca...

My Weekend

it's getting a bit chilly at night, so i brought out an extra blanket for the bed i started stitching the quilt by hand in college and f...

Artists I like: Gunta Stölzl

Outside of quilting, I don't have much experience in the fiber arts, but I secretly fantasize about owning my own loom and knitting mach...

Turn your old jeans into a laptop bag

Jeans are a staple in my closet.  It's pretty much what I wear every day.  This summer I replaced my white jeans with a newer pair,  and...

Inspired by sashiko

My favorite pair of jeans had been stashed away for nearly a year due to an indecent tear on the backside.  Several weeks ago, I finally fel...

The art of pojagi

[image sources: Jung Yul Park , London Korean Links , Sri Threads ] A pojagi is a Korean wrapping cloth, normally hand-pieced together from ...

Show and Tell: Keepsakes of my cedar chest

I have a cedar chest that my mother-in-law bought me when I was newly married.  Today, I was reorganizing my sewing paraphernalia, which was...

My week

 i like to stop in on weekends at this neighborhood greenhouse strawberry plants for 50 cents each  . . . . . . . . . . my latest mixed medi...

Marie Watt's studio

One of my very favorite things to do is to visit the studio of an artist, even more so than going to a museum.  It's the place where ide...

Quilting a duvet cover amongst other things

  I have always loved Marimekko 's Unessa fabric and have wanted it as a duvet cover.  Over the last few months, however, I have been co...

It's a small world indeed

Marie Watt, Marker: Complete , 2010 In recent months while searching for art on the internet, I have stumbled upon a few artists who attende...

Piecing together the old and the new

I'm about to embark on a new quilting project.  I picked up a great set of vintage squares (handstitched!) at an antique store and am tr...