The Objects of Design

Tommy has a new girlfriend so he made a valentine pillow for her from the pink postage patchwork. It's filled with catnip to convey hi...

  The MASSIVE cleanup has morphed into an archeological dig. I found bear remnants in a bag from over 20 years ago. I have run across th...

    Piedmont Virginia Community College Art department is releasing this year's t-shirt. A cicada wreath--so festive for the holiday ...

Okay, count me back into the fractured quilt challenge that Vicki W. is sponsoring . It pushed me into finishing two quilt tops, so let...

Yesterday's comment suggested a quilt...so here it is...as requested. Well, in process. I pinned the blocks to the design wall withou...

Tommy decided that he should be today's object of design...a modern cat.

Here's a full view of the quilt top I constructed out of the remnants of a failed project. I like that I would never have planned this...

I'm back! Except I didn't go anywhere. I've just been plugging away on the Placid Curves quilt top from Amy Ellis' Modern ...

I thought I would show the work in progress. The pattern is Placid Curves from Amy Ellis 's book Modern Neutrals . The pattern's f...

When I made the first fractured quilt as part of Vicki W.'s quilt-a-long , I may have cut too many blocks. I thought I would make the ...

Completed fractured quilt top.

The scrappy trips around the world has now taken the place of honor on the floor. This is the upper left hand corner. The upper right hand...

Playing with the leftover fractured pieces.

Here are my fractured blocks laid out on the floor. You know your cat is old when you lay out your blocks in the evening and there is o...

I finished all the blocks for the scrappy trips around the world and now have to figure out how I will lay them out. Well, first, I really...

Here's my progress on the fractured quilt-a-long with Vicki W . This pattern demands strong contrast, so I started a "I'll sh...

This quilt was constructed from the remnants of a failed quilt project. I thought I could get a better photo of it in the morning, but I w...

Cicada wreath t-shirt reprinted. Screen print, three colors.

Cicada wreath screen print on a t-shirt. What a mess! Can you find the three problems? Okay, the registration problem for the red ink laye...

Zebras. Screenprint on t-shirt. Two colors.