Quilt National is an international biennial show of art quilts. The deadline for submitting is September 10. The purpose of the show is to stretch the limits of quiltmaking and see what people come up with. It is about innovation, not necessarily craftsmanship or making functional quilts. It is also not about narrative. I didn’t [...]
I blogged a few months ago about making fairy houses with our daughter Sophie from match boxes. Then a few weeks ago Sophie and I went into a garden center where they had put together fairy gardens. Fairy gardens! The fairy gardens on display were in low, wide containers and had little arbors, benches, plants [...]
Before I tell you about Cowalunga 2010, I want to tell you lovely Craft Nectar readers how honored and humbled I am by your GENEROUS contributions to Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago for the Deep Breath quilt pattern in the last post. I wish you could have seen me sitting a my computer when [...]
It’s birthday week for our daughter Sophie and her bestest friend Isa. Both are turning 9. Both are adopted and both are part of multiracial, mutlicultural families. They met at preschool when they were three and are both in a five-year long Spanish immersion program at the local public school. They’ll spend part of the [...]
We began working on our next book in the fall of 2008. In many ways it was a lifetime ago. At long last I’m allowed to write a little bit about it and show you an image. The book will be released in November by C&T but Amazon is already taking pre-orders for it! It’s [...]
