By leslie | September 21, 2009
You can read about my design contributions to Terry Jarrard-Dimond’s Compositional Conversation project over here on Terry’s blog today. The photo above is the “final composition” I mailed off to Fulvia Luciano last Tuesday. Rather than pile-on some additional fabric figures, I ended up really thinking about the formal elements of the composition, and how I [...]
By leslie | September 21, 2009
I’ve finally added some gallery pages to this blog. They can be accessed via the tab above, or from the pages menu over on the left.
Thank goodness for Wordpress and Wordpress plug-ins. I was able to put together a couple of small quilt galleries and post them on a new page without much fuss. The [...]
By leslie | September 18, 2009
We recently added a new cat to our household as a companion to our favorite tabby. This full grown little girl is tiny, under six pounds. She is seen here on a dozy afternoon with a freshly harvested GIANT garden zucchini. (Photo taken by my spouse). The two cats seem to be getting along well, [...]
By leslie | September 10, 2009
A nicely packaged bundle arrived in the mail for me yesterday containing something special. This week it is my turn in the fantastic group art project, Compositional Conversation. Compositional Conversation is the brain-child of Terry Jarrard-Dimond, an award winning artist who creates moving and muscular textile constructions in her South Carolina studio. Terry blogs about [...]
Meet Bette. Bette Bernina. Otherwise known as my brand new Bernina 820 sewing machine computer. I don’t usually name inanimate objects. But this one seems to have a Bette Davis, take no prisoners sort of way about her. Plus I watch a lot of old movies on TCM while sewing.
Did I mention I’m in love? [...]
