Posts Tagged ‘quilting’
Uh-Oh!
Quilting was not my first love….I know, shocking, isn’t it?!? When I was in fourth or fifth grade, my mother sent me to the Singer Sewing School at the Singer Sewing Center in the Nanuet Mall. Every Saturday for what felt like forever, I got up early and was dropped off at the mall before it opened and attended sewing classes. We got to pick out a pattern, fabrics and notions and was walked through the construction process and at the end of the “term” there was going to be a Fashion Show! We were going to get to model… Read more »
A Fresh Start!
I recently moved my personal sewing stuff to our basement. Wasn’t much to look at, your typical semi-finished basement…white walls, cement floor, washer and dryer set up. Then my friend René said, why don’t we paint it…René loves to paint! I mean LOVES to paint! So I went to the paint store and picked out one of my favorite colors…almost, but not quite, lime green! It is a color that gives me great joy! I don’t care if it’s going out of style, I still love it! So we checked our schedules and found a day to spend painting together… Read more »
What Inspires You?
Recently I was out shopping and came across this piece of furniture that made me want to make a quilt. Now the piece wasn’t quilted, there were no carvings that made me think of appliqué, it was just something about the piece that made me say, “I need to design a quilt!” I wish I knew what that something was exactly, because sometimes quilt making inspiration is few and far between! So what is it that inspires you to make a quilt? Is it a magazine photo? A piece of fabric? What makes you say, “this is it!”
