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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...
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Tips 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...
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Can 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...
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The 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....
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From 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...
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Sioux 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...
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I’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...
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A 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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