Something About Nothing

The main reason I went to New York was to attend Quilt Alliance's Quilters Take Manhattan. There were several events before the main conference and the one I attended was  Victoria Findlay Wolfe 's trunk show in her loft. The quilts were all gorgeous. I love star quilts!!!  I really enjoyed hearing about how Victoria started in art as a painter, before discovering quilting, and her journey to where she is today.  Victoria is always coming up with creative new patterns.  Which reminds me, I need to finish my Thunderstruck quilt from Craft Napa!

I really want to make Christmas cards.   Great time to think about them, huh?   Since it's Christmas day and all. Let's just say I'm a year early. I've come up with an idea for cards that involve Gelli® prints and . . .surprise, surprise. . . hand carved STAMPS.  The first part is a heart inside a star. I was pretty upset with myself when I slipped with the gouge and broke into the line of the star the first time.  But what are you going to do at that point?  Start over?  I think not.  Then I did it AGAIN!   Good grief.   I kept carving.   UGH I did it a THIRD time!!!  Good thing I was done carving by then.   I stamped the star and found I LOVE the breaks in the lines!  So lets just forget all I just told you about it being a mistake and pretend I planned on cutting into the lines in the first place. It will be our little secret. While playing with the stamp I found they made a cute little ...

I had a few deadlines this week which have kept me from posting! First project up was to finish a second quilt for the Springville Museum of Art Quilt Show . I created the pieced top while in Fountain Green a few months ago and was able to quilt the top in a way I REALLY liked.  After blocking the quilt, while trimming the top, the quilt told me I needed to be more drastic in my trimming.   Do your quilts talk to you?   I do hope I'm not the only one! This one said I should get rid of some sections of black.  I chalked out the lines and decided to sleep on the decision. I wasn't sure I wanted to cut out all that pretty quilting! When I came back to the quilt the next day, it yelled "YES! YES! GET RID OF SOME BLACK!"   So I ruthlessly took the rotary cutter and chopped out the black bits I'd chalked in and then finished it with a facing, a sleeve and a label all before midnight the night before the deadline!   Whew! But then I forgot to ...

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