I started work a few weeks ago on the 6 window-shapes that will be a big design element in my latest project, an art quilt about the January 8 shooting. You can see the beginning of the collage here. Once I created shapes that large enough to be trimmed down to 8″x8″ squares (the ultimate [...]
Archive for February, 2012
A Quilt Making Evening
Posted in Art Quilts, tagged Double Wedding Ring Quilt, Sharp Women Tucson Art Quilt Group on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Isn’t this amazing? Last night the ladies in the quilt group I attend–the Sharp Women–met at my house; this is just a partial view of Becky’s Double Wedding Ring quilt top, complete with amazing piecing AND very impressive needle turn applique on the border (the flowers and vines, which you can’t see too well here). [...]
Arizona Historical Society Centennial Quilt Exhibit
Posted in Art Quilts, tagged 110 Years--100 Quilts: Arizona Centennial Quilt Project, Arizona Historical Society Quilt Show on February 19, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Arizona’s Centennial was February 14th of this year, and the Arizona Historical Society is celebrating with a fantastic installation; “100 Quilts–100 Years” as part of the Arizona Centennial Quilt Project. Andrea Stanfield’s quilt, above, is called “Arizona’s Flag 2012″ and is made of 2000 postage-stamp sized squares of fabric: it’s a great example of smart [...]
Bread Baking and Paper Shredding
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Baking on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I started working on the collage fabric I’m making for my new quilt project about the January 8 shootings; above are ripped up photocopies of photographs I took of the memorials to the victims. In between bouts of paper ripping I made a batch of bread with the stand-mixer I recently found on Craigslist for [...]
Screen Printing Revisited
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, Screen Printing, Screen Printing Fabric, tagged Freezer Paper Stencils for Screen Printing Fabric, Tucson January 8th Shooting Art, Tucson Screen Printing Fabric on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Finally, back to an art quilt project. I have this idea of a piece about the January 8th Shooting in Tucson. I made print paste mix yesterday to get ready for screen printing, as it’s best for the mix to sit 24 hours before use; it’s just sodium alginate, water and some urea. I’ve read [...]
Sonoran Desert Wildflowers 2012
Posted in Southern Arizona Hiking, tagged King Trail to Wassom Peak, Sonoran Desert Wildflowers 2012, Tucson Area Hiking on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s another great year for wildflowers in the Tucson area; we had 3 inches of rain in November/December last year, followed by one of the warmest Januaries ever: the flowers are at least 4 weeks early and they are all over the place. Today I took the day off from work, and my mom and [...]
Cheese Danish Primer
Posted in Baking, tagged Cheese Danish on February 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Probably my favorite food period is a well-made cheese danish. These are hard to find, though, because almost no one makes danish/croissant dough from scratch any more. In my quest to develop proficiency in making a good danish dough, I went to Sonoita today where my mom graciously shared her danish making skills with me. [...]
Socked In
Posted in Art Projects, tagged Tucson Knitting on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it happened. I started knitting and spent ALL OF JANUARY on the above sock, which still isn’t finished and it’s February. I’ll finish the foot this week; I’d like to post a photo of it completely done in 48 hours. While I enjoy knitting, I miss making art. It’s been a while. Hopefully not [...]
