Caught in the Act!

That is the name of this amazing quilt by Barbara McKie. It uses a disperse dyed digital print with applique, trapunto and especially thread painting. This is my second favorite quilt overall, and my favorite for techniques.

Nature, Through the Eyes of a Quilter.

Another batch of wonderful quilts from the Midatlantic Quilt Festival....
Although the styles ranged from very traditional to ultramodern, my own tastes in quilts tend to the contemporary landscap[e and fantasy quilts, the artsy stuff. It is what I do (though not in this caliber) and what I love. I did take pics of traditional pieces for my friends who didn't get to go, but these are the ones I found fascinating. The use of color, the composition, the lines and fabric choices, all contribute to the beauty and my joy in these pieces. I hope you enjoy them too. Tomorrow, I will showcase one particular quilt that just blew me away! Stay tuned!

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Midatlantic Fun

I went to Virginia Beach this past week to the Midatlantic Quilt Festival there. What a great time I had! It is hard to know which pics to put on the blog, since there are so many gorgeous quilts I fell in love with and wanted to bring home. Here are just a few... I will do a special post on my favorite... But for now, just some of the beautiful work I saw there.

 

I'm Back!

Well, it has been a busy time for me, and still is. I do have a few things to show for it though, and one that I will show when I get the pics for it from my sis. I am entering a small quilt in a challenge by Alliance for American Quilts. It is inspired by a book I have recently read, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. If you haven't read it yet, I heartily recommend it, along with its two follow on books, Catching Fire and Mockingjay. I like the quiltie so much that I am doing a second one, because I have to give this one away. I plan to do one for the other two books too, and then another one each month this year, each inspired by books I have read. If I pull it off, I will have 12 little quilts to remind me of my old friends, books.

The End of the Christmas Display

Today, we took down Christmas. If I could, I would leave this up all year and build new stuff for it and expand it, but living in a townhouse, that just isn't likely! So down it came. Here was the final display after the additions of this year, the bread vendor and weaving woman, plus more sheep and trees. This year I want to make all new tents for the kings and a cave for the Holy Family. And a warp weighted loom, too. Hopefully. Farewell, Christmas.

Kalendis Ianuariis

Melting Snowman Cookies

These are not only cute, but quite tasty too! I got the directions from Stacey at www.trulycustomcakery. The sugar cookie recipe is from www.allrecipes, and they are yummie. You should try them!

Happy Christmas

May the Blessings of Christmas find you and yours well and happy. God Bless Us, Every One!

My god, they are doing it again!

It appears this administration cannot learn from past administrations previous mistakes. Apparently we are going to work another exchange program with the Chinese nuclear weapons scientists. We did this in the 1990s, and suffered one of the worst cases of falling on our sword espionage in our history.... WTF? This is a play we have seen before... In fact we have acted in it before. We know how it ends. What hubris makes this administration think it will end any differently than before?

Oh wait. Maybe they don't want it to end differently. Maybe they, you know, want something less than the best for our country. It sure wouldn't be e first such instance. Or tenth.


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Creche 2011

I look forward to putting up the creche every year, and this was no exception. I have had a bug of some kind, so it is a bit late, but it is up at last! And I feel human again, though I am not quite over whatever it is. I was hoping to get a cave made as the stable but maybe after Christmas. Until then, the building with the donkey in it will have to do. One of these days I will make a wooden platform with roads and sand and all on it too, but right now, I have no place to store it, so cloth is the fallback. I also want to paint more of the figures, especially the bases, so you see less of them and more of the figures themselves. All in good time.