While we officially moved to “Phase Two” in our area… We still stayed pretty close to home. Still working from home and trying to limit trips to ‘essentials.’ I did go to the garden store a few times. My head was clearing up just as the weather turned back to rain, rain and more rain.… Continue reading Creating in Captivity: June
During the months of July and August 2020 I will have a show at Cafe Zippy in Everett Wa. (1502 Rucker Ave., Everett WA) All Fiber art for sale will have 50% of the sale price donated directly to one of three local charities. If you are local, the cafe is open Wed-Sat. 11 am… Continue reading Cafe Zippy Fundraiser Show
May arrived and we were still stuck at home… the anxiety of the virus and the constant “breaking news” about everything… the lack of participation from my students in online school… it all started to wear me down. My mood and health started to sink pretty deep into darkness. I was creating less, watching more… Continue reading Creating in Captivity: May
Woot! I am officially graduating from the Free Motion Quilting Academy. It was an incredible 12 weeks of learning. I am so much more confident in my free motion quilting. I learned a lot of new motifs as well as how to figure out and fix tension problems. We learned how to make a FM… Continue reading FMQ Rockstar Academy Graduation
As the world knows… life has changed quite a bit lately. Here in Washington state and my home town of Everett… we had the first known Covid-19 case in January 2020. Since then things have become both more interesting and of course more difficult and depressing. Luckily, my job is intact and since March 13th,… Continue reading Creating in Captivity: April
The sassy llama quilt got started just a week or two into our stay at home order… I requested a “mystery fat quarter pack” from my Quilt shop which came with a pattern. I also asked for a fun panel I had seen last time I was in, and Mindy matched the mystery pack to… Continue reading Sassy Llama Quilt
This week has been a wonderful challenge to start and finish this quilt for the new Project Quilting Quarantine Challenge! The theme this week is “Big.” Right away I knew I wanted to try out letters… I haven’t ever pieced any letters, don’t have a pattern or a printer to download any. So I tore… Continue reading Love Big
Quilts and other projects I finished in 2019 Official Count finished…. 16 quilts, collages and other projects…. Eye Spy (charity) Quilt Finished January 2019 I joined a guild in the fall of 2018 and quickly made charity quilts for our various charities. This one was made with the “My scraps went wild” pattern by Susan… Continue reading The Finish Line 2019
Quilts and Projects I finished in 2018 Official count finished… 3 “No More Empty Desks” April 2018 This quilt was started in February 2018 right after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. It is a numerical history of injuries (yellow) and deaths (red) off all the school mass shootings since Kip Kinkle’s 1998 shooting.… Continue reading The Finish Line 2018
My entry for the 11.6 – Vibrant and Vivacious – Challenge 6 of Project QUILTING Season 11. I am sad that just as our shelter in place is ramping up… this challenge is winding down. So hopefully we all go out with a bang! and.. I am sure that I will find new challenges to… Continue reading Vibrant Market Tote
