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Back In Action and a Give Away

Saturday, November 24th, 2012

I took a break from the studio and blogging. It was nice to have family time. You can see photos of our day on Stephanie’s blog, here. Here are Mia and Miles sipping sparkling apple juice and waiting for the adults to sit down.

Yesterday, Mr C and I went to a matinee showing of Lincoln. It is a marvelous movie. Daniel Day Lewis was a fantastic Lincoln. I was most interested in how Congress was just as dysfunctional then as it is now.

Today, I made a huge pot of turkey soup with the leftover carcass. I have enough to feed the whole neighborhood. I also picked up some yarn to knit a Christmas stocking for Paige Ada. More about that later.

I also got back down to the studio and got caught up with my 3 x3’s. Here are the rest.

I feel as if I have had 3 Saturdays in a row and it is finally Sunday, tomorrow.

I was sent 2 copies of the Art Quilting Studio magazine because I have two articles, I guess. If you would like a chance to have my second copy, leave a comment between now and Tuesday, 9 pm PST, and I will do a random drawing for the winner.

Family Time

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

Today is Miles’ 11th birthday. Time flies. I remember the week of his birth like it was yesterday. I left Santa Rosa at noon to drive as far as Ashland. I had some car trouble which turned out to be a loose battery cable and made it to Ashland. I got up early the next morning and drove to Portland, arriving just in time for Steph and Jack to leave for the hospital. Miles was born that afternoon or evening. It was the week of Thanksgiving, like this year. Steve and Mark drove up to spend Thanksgiving with us. It was very hectic for Steph with a new baby, but we survived. The weather was a lot like this year, too. Steve and Mark barely made it back to California because of snow. The next week, when I drove back, I made it over the Siskiyous with snow coming down. There was eventually so much snow that I-5 was closed for several days. I had friends who got stuck in Oregon. So, every year when Miles birthday comes around, I remember that wild week.

Look at how happy this boy is. He is such a sweet kid.

He doesn’t like cake so Steph made him a birthday mud pie. It was delicious.

I finished my shopping for Thanksgiving dinner. Tomorrow, the cooking begins.

 

I’m in Print

Monday, November 19th, 2012

I am pretty sure my friends are tired of hearing about this, but for me this is pretty darned awesome. I have two articles in the Winter 2012 issue of Art Quilting Studio. I received my copy today. It will hit the newsstands December 1. One article is about how I turn my art cloth into art quilts. I also have a tutorial on discharging.

The other article is about my Aspen Quilts.

In the back of the magazine is section titled Patchwork where several art quilts are featured. I have two pages there.

The issue is large and packed with wonderful articles, many of them by friends so I feel that I am in such good company — Connie Rose, Katherine Sands, Rayna Gilman, Kathie Briggs, Arlee Barr, Ellen Lindner, Dominie Nash, Natalya Aikens, Roxanne Lessa, Laurie Brainerd, Gloria Hansen, Clairan Ferrono and others I don’t know that well. Ricë Freeman-Zachery has two articles featuring Sandra Meech and Jenny Hearn.

This morning, I had my hips x-rayed and am waiting to hear what it shows. Then, Mr C and I got the Twelve by Twelve Colorplay quilts packed up and sent them on their way to Brenda Smith in Australia.

I still had time to work on the organ quilt. I finished the background quilting and started working on the embellishments. Here is a section of the wood filigree that will be fused in place and stitched.

And, here is today’s 3 x 3.

Getting Things Done

Sunday, November 18th, 2012

I have been putting my life on hold while I deal with the hip problem. So things are piling up and time is marching  on. I have had the Twelve by Twelve Colorplay quilts in my possession since quilt Expo where they lost the bags we had prepared for them and the shipping boxes. I also promised one of the Twelves that I would photograph her quilts. I also wanted to photograph mine.

They need to be heading off Down Under and very soon. So, today, I prepared new bags and labels and did the photography, I really love these quilts every time I look at them I see new and lovely work by my fellow Twelves.

Last week, my Theme quilts arrived home after traveling around the world. Terry has taken on the job of packing them up and sending them back to the other Twelves.

Tomorrow, I am going back to Kaiser for x-rays on my hip. I hope they can figure out what is causing the pain.

We are due for some very stormy weather and high winds. Hope it doesn’t keep me  home bound. I have things to get done!!

 

Friday?

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Where did this week go? I started the month feeling ahead of the game, but things are getting out of hand very quickly. Turkey day is next week – at least I have the turkey ordered.

This morning I drove out to Clackamas to pick up my new red glasses. I really like them, and I got rave reviews tonight when I saw a bunch of friends. Here is my smiley face.

Tonight we had the opening of our holiday show at Trinity. The crafts are mainly from Palestine. We have friends who were on the Israel trip with us a few years ago. When the husband retired from his medical practice, they started going to Jerusalem for 6 months out of the year where he volunteered in a hospital, working with new doctors. She volunteers with one of the groups that made some of the things we have for sale. I bought this  felted nativity scene which was made by the young people in this group, some of which have Down’s Syndrome.

I love it!!

This afternoon when I was down in the studio, I looked at the organ piece in daylight and decided it was not as bad as I thought. I think the quilting is coming together. Sometimes, we get to close to our work when it is a bit tedious. I just need to get past the tedious part. I will be back at it tomorrow.