A Bit of Yellow

My mom gave me this party book in 1962 when I was 8 years old. I loved to linger over the pictures and read the recipes. Not sure I actual...

A couple years ago my husband and I were on a mission in rural China. This gracious hostess prepared a meal for us in her "kitchen...

How I love a sunny day. Unfortunately, it was overcast today! The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It has a diameter about...

See the November 3 post for a full size image of The World. Here's another detail shot. I lucked out on the commercial fabric for the ca...

On a recent trip to a local family farm and apple orchard, I couldn't resist taking pictures of these bins of squash. Though considered ...

These zebras are drawn directly on the background fabric using a black Pigma Micron pen. The white stripes are made whiter with slightly thi...

This detail image of The World (see November 3 post) shows a portion of the western hemisphere. The starting point on this quilt was to get ...

The World is making its debut at International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX this week (Nov 4-7). It is 73" wide by 56" high. The ...

This rose grows in the gardens at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. See what Annette Hendricks can do with velvet roses in her masterpie...

While a bit more gold than yellow, these products were worth their weight in gold to me (well, almost). When our barely 9-year old kitchen f...

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.--Daniel J. Boorstin Speaking of co...

This fabric is called Renoir's Village. I still have a couple yards of it for another project. But really, I just like to look at it an...

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go...

The backgound uses two colorways of the same fabric--one yellow, one orange. To set off the border I added a couple funky yarns in electric...

It's soon time for a new yellow pencil to highlight passages in my favorite book, the Bible. I've always considered these verses in ...

For all beautiful things have their moment of newness. They rise and set. They grow, become perfect, then decline and shrivel. --St Augustin...

As a member of PAQA http://www.artquilters.com/ I'm entering a piece in the upcoming challenge: Art and Science. Considered the Father ...

Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Get out and listen for the laughter today!

How is a pictorial quilt like In the Quiet constructed? Basically I used two techniques. First, the main quilt is put together using the app...

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. ---Claude Pepper How's that for YELLOW? Saw this outside...