Finished Work
Quilt Tour: You’re Doing Amazing, Sweetie
First, a sincere thank you to my weird sister in needlework, who invited me to participate in this whole exercise. Because I have a day job, because this is something I do on nights and weekends, I definitely don’t feel…
Project Tour: Embroidered Pillow
I haven’t been embroidering much lately because I caught the quilting bug. In late 2020, I took an excellent online class with Marlee Grace called A Quilt is a Human Thing, an introduction to improv quilting. Along with the instructional…
Quilt Tour: The secret quilts
Man, it was a great summer. There were boats, golf carts, museums, parties, trips. There was sausage making, quilt making, knitting, baking, and a lot of quality time with far flung folks after a couple of years of relative distance…
Quilt Tour: My First Big Stitch Quilt
I started this quilt with two ideas in mind. I wanted to do a simple, more traditional quilt pattern and I wanted to try big stitch quilting (as an embroiderer, I have a metric ton of DMC thread at my…
Bread for All and Roses Too
“Bread and Roses” is both a political slogan as well as the title of a poem and song. It’s commonly associated with the successful textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, between January and March 1912, now often referred to as the…