Today is the first day of spring and it is the final Project Quilting Challenge for the year. The theme for this challenge is “Ab Intra” meaning to look within. A lot has been going on this week, but the best part is the starting of SPRING. My favorite of all seasons! There have been… Continue reading Hope Springs Eternal
This week’s theme is based on the fact that few of us can travel these days… so the theme was virtual vacation… and I got really excited to make an exotic travel bag with circles showing all kinds of places I might like to go. But with machine, fabric and motivation issues I got stuck.… Continue reading PQC12.3 Virtual Vacation
On to challenge number two of the Project Quilting Challenges, and not surprisingly more bags! This challenge was do to fussy cutting, which is something I have been doing a lot of lately with my Tula Pink City Sampler quilt. This time I started with making several different quilt sandwiches and then decided what type… Continue reading PQC12.2 Fussy Cutting
Well I picked a pretty interesting year to do my first temperature quilt didn’t I? I only recently found out there was such a thing, and I thought that considering climate change, that these sort of quilts would really be a historical keepsake some day. In fact, I thought about doing double sided with 1920… Continue reading 2020 Temperature Scrappy Dresden Plates
So excited to be participating again in the Project Quilting Challenges. This year I am here from the start and plan to do ALL the challenges… probably as bags. I am having a lot of fun making and gifting bags lately. First Challenge was Yellow and Grey Pantone’s 2021 colors. Not colors that I care… Continue reading Project Quilting Season 12
WOW! I just looked through all my records and I made and more importantly FINISHED 25 quilts plus several other sewing related projects in 2020. The Covid lockdowns certainly gave me lots more time at home to do things. Click on a link below to see the Instagram post on each one! Finish Date Quilt… Continue reading The Finish Line 2020
My small art collages are still available and 50% of all sales goes to charity. I can wrap and ship directly. Click on the image to see price, size and charity details. Message or email me if you are interested. shebaduhkitty at gmail
Maryhill Museum of Art, in partnership with artist Molly Johnson and Monmouth Arts, Red Bank, NJ, is excited to launch Exquisitely Connected, a national visual art community-building experience! Similar to The Exquisite Gorge Project, this initiative is also inspired by the Surrealist parlor game, Exquisite Corpse. https://www.maryhillmuseum.org/exquisitelyconnected My Covid-19 collage was accepted and included in the “Exquisitely Connected” online… Continue reading Exquisitely Connected
July brought on gloomy, cloudy, colder than usual weather. Since I was staying inside I had to try to stay motivated. This month’s UFO was the Batik Block of the month, which I managed to pin baste, but didn’t get to the quilting yet. Instead I got really wrapped up in making postcards and charity… Continue reading Creating in Captivity: July
I just had a blast the past couple days making a bunch of fabric postcards and thought I would share a little bit about my process. I almost always use scraps for my postcards and start by making a big block of fabric, which is later cut down to size. So for this batch… Continue reading Fabric Postcards: A tutorial of sorts
