Molly’s Story Quilt

That's Kathy, cutting the blocks

With a few adjustments, we will start assembling the quilt today.  This particular quilt will go up for auction at the Mother’s Day Luncheon hosted by the Molly Ann Tango Memorial Foundation in May.  The pattern and images from the book will be available at the Quilter’s Alley as a kit, or separately, if you’d prefer to choose your own fabric.  One of the options will be to personalize your quilt with the child’s name on the backpack.  We’ll keep you posted on when the kits are ready to go.

 

Remember to Breathe

 

Christian Lane Brunches The Quilter’s Alley

That’s Christian Lane Quilters  Berlin, CT  and The Quilter’s Alley  Ridgefield, CT

Would you believe that no one had a camera, but we still had a great time catching up over omelets.  We met at a show in New Milford, CT over a year ago (feels like we know them forever.  Actually they visited our very new shop three years ago for a minute.) and chose the town again for our second reunion.   It is charming on a gorgeous summer morning and after we finished eating, we walked and talked and joked (a lot- thanks, Jim.  Stu may have met his match.)

 

There are a few things, like meeting great people with similar interests, that really stand out about among the hard work of owning a business and doing shows.  When all the goods are finally lugged in, and you can sit for a minute, you may end up finding your new best friends behind the quilt in the booth next door.  

Wilma is an award-winning long arm quilter, and well known in these parts and elsewhere.  I’m a humble shop owner who loves art and fabric.  Jim and Stu have found their niches as comic relief. (Jim is an amazing long-arm quilter as well and Stu brings Viking Sewing Machines to their full potential.)

I am most excited to have left my 1930’s quilt top with her for quilting.  I can close my eyes and imaging how beautiful it will be with Wilma’s lines of thread. What a great collaboration!

 

Sew, but don’t stop blogging.

We are all in the same craft boat with our doubts, insecurities, lack of time, multiple interests.  I, for one, am so sad, in my isolated creative space,  that so many blogs are going away. Blogs I’ve grown attached to. It’s like the blog is just another craft project. that is finally finished.  Are any of you out there noticing this trend?  But people need to hear what you-all-too-busy-to-blog people have to say and what you are making to keep us all feeling okay about what we do. 

Now a yahoo list I just joined about a week ago… this is spooky!

I know there are still many of us out there, online, flickr, blogging, but I’m afraid I’m losing heart myself, with all the “endings.”  Something cheerful to close…

 

 

 

Drive, drove, driven

 I’ve started a project.  I’ve been reviewing  my oldwork, trying to put my finger on the root of the idea, (why?) but it keeps going back farther and farther to when I was painting and collage-ing times and fabric was used incidentally.