Make + Love Quilts: Scrap Quilts for the 21st Century
I, libros. I don’t have any children. But I have written a book. Because of this book, I feel I understand a thing or two about parentage and stewardship, about hard work and real fear. (Before we get...
View ArticleTips For The Beginner Quilter In All of Us (A Diagram-Chart-Schematic-Graphic)
Everyone likes shapes. That’s Grandma Moses, by the way. I’m in Cleveland at the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo show. I’ll be teaching today; tomorrow, I’ll teach again and then give a lecture. If...
View ArticleCan You Panhandle It?
NOT COOL, FLORIDA. America is big and wide and I’ve seen a fair amount of it. Before I gigged around as a quilter, I gigged around as a theater performer, and before that, I gigged around as a poet, if...
View ArticleThe Snow Twilight Zone!
“Maslanitsa,” by Boris Kustodiev, 1918. Stick Rod Serling’s face in there somewhere and you’ve got it. I remember exactly one Twilight Zone episode out of the dozen or so I saw accidentally as a kid....
View ArticleFrom The Land of State-Sponsored Television
Seeing Bert and Ernie chopped in half and placed under glass is making my inner child hysterical and traumatized, but at least they’re the real mccoy. Photo: Wikipedia There are ribbons tied to my...
View ArticleSioux City, Distilled.
“Bing” is for bing cherry, by the way. Photo: Internet Greetings from fabulous Sioux City! When’s the last time you were in Sioux City? Yeah, me neither, but I’m glad I’m here. Sioux City is pretty...
View ArticleI’m Lecturing In Wilmette on Thursday Night, So Come Over!
My view from the stage, Irvine, California, last month…before they started adding chairs in the back! Yeah!! Photo: Me oh boy Dear (specifically Illinois and maybe upper Indiana as well as lower...
View ArticleA Super-Secret Mission!
She’s kind of like a ninja?? (Image: “Animal locomotion,” Plate 156. Eadweard Muybridge, 1887. Courtesy Wikipedia.) It’s been hard the past few days to touch base because I can’t tell you where I am!...
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