It’s still Sunday here

I think that my time. (EST) is the right time and yet,  the blog day ends early in the Northeast and begins its accounting too early for my taste.   I don’t know what parallel is the guide and measure for this system, but it always makes me feel like I haven’t had a chance [...]

Making it happen

I started the day with the idea that I would finish.  I’ve had a couple of open projects, and a customer who said, ” people think I’m crazy that I want to finish a project before I start another. ”  (Excuse to not buy more fabric-and I hear them all- or obsessive?)  Well, I know [...]

Maybe by tomorrow…

I’ll have something to show for the last few days of work.  I know it’s only two days since my last post, and last night was a night out with the girls and only some blurry photos of us flitting around Cathy’s kitchen, but I can’t forgive myself (I should) for not taking a macro [...]

Day Off

We visited NYC this afternoon for errands and fun. One stop: The Museum of Modern Art. I almost cried in the presence of Rauchenberg’s fabrics, Derain’s color and Matisse’s composition.  The museum itself is the subject of many photographs. The Color exhibit was my goal, but we stayed to walk the other galleries and observe [...]

Sourdough starter and I finished

lots of projects today and it feels good!   I got to work ready to sew my way through the day, and I did.  Yesterday’s possible pillow turned out great. It still needs the vintage button embellishments sewn on.  I used a piece of stash fabric that hadn’t gone with anything until now for the [...]

Orange

is theme today,  just looking at the fabrics I’ve been working with. or maybe coincidence os the theme, reflecting on the activities of the day. Is speaking someone’s name a desire to manifest her presence? Is pulling a particular fabric from my stash a wish to sell three yards the next day? Will admitting now [...]

Life cycle of cloth

Three days and three yards, at least, into this tiny baby kimono project that I thought would be quick.  The directions and pattern are on Martha’s craft site, but I couldn’t make sense of it - the illustrations didn’t illustrate, the directions didn’t direct- so I just went my own way on this one, the [...]

i promised…

myself that I would spend the evening sewing.  I sewed for a good part of the day at work, after teaching sewing for a good part of the day, but I need to travel to the “interior life” of my personal fabric stash and myself. I need to connect to my creative, by making.  Right [...]

There’s no explaining

when you fall in love.

Retreat to Ridgefield

While I was looking for an image to use for the invitation to our retreat in July, I realized it would make a great macro image, even though I didn’t take the shot today.