Trigger warning: This post also deals with suicide, death, grief. Please read with caution. Twenty twenty and Twenty twenty-one were hard years on all of us. Grief and loss, loss and death and grief hit us all really hard, in different, uncontrollable, isolating ways. The isolation led and leads to fear and mistrust which leads… Continue reading IQF 2022 part 2
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Reminders
This week I'm starting with a couple of Thank you notes: Sharlene Rodewald & Lori Baker Heartland Quilt Guild Thank you both so much for your generosity, kindness and thank you to all the guild members who took the class. I enjoyed our time together, especially at the restaurant!Bonnie, Gale & Linda Nitzen Flying Geese… Continue reading Reminders
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Happy Easter
A new day dawnedA new day is dawningA new day dawnsLightWordHopeDeath is conquered Happy Easter
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Have you Ever Done Something Stupid?
I did. Yesterday, 4/11/2022. I permitted my Instagram Account @terilucas to be hacked. It was stupid. And you'll be surprised to learn I did this stupid thing to ostensibly help a friend out. DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS FROM ME AND IF YOU GET A MESSAGE ASKING YOU TO RESPOND TO A TEXT MESSAGE… Continue reading Have you Ever Done Something Stupid?
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I’m right on time for the next post
I love it when there are posts in drafts. Ones that make me go huh? when I start writing. Like, what on earth was I thinking about. Well, here's what I'm thinking about today sometimes when all the thread goes kaflooie it's time to put the sewing room in time outthe sewing room is in… Continue reading I’m right on time for the next post
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Word of the Year
There's a movie trick where the camera or the shot moves very quickly to catch up with a person, or move that person to a certain place in time, this is, to me what 2021 feels like, or alt 2020 if you'd like. The Word of the Year #woty for 2021, Show up, not quite… Continue reading Word of the Year
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I’m on my way to International Quilt Festival
Riding shotgun is the Quilter on Fire Brandy Maslowski. She'll be interviewing at International Quilt Festival. While we're staying together I don't think we'll see a lot of each other. I'm even more excited that I'll get to introduce Brandy to Annie Smith, the original quilting podcaster and Tracy Mooney of Quilt N Tell. I… Continue reading I’m on my way to International Quilt Festival
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Learn to Stitch with Reckless Abandon
sometimes when memories pop through it's important to share them as in someway they led to where you are now. One summer a friends parents invited me along to northern Maine for a week away. One evening the local television station aired a documentary on Terry Fox who attempted to run across Canada in an… Continue reading Learn to Stitch with Reckless Abandon
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Answering the Licorice Question and other weird facts
Wanna hear a weird fact? I don't like licorice, but I do like anisette. I love hand quilting, and can teach it, but I am not interested in hand quilting a quilt I stopped drinking soda/pop for a really long time. Then started drinking again at my dad's wake as part of a toast. Go… Continue reading Answering the Licorice Question and other weird facts
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Second Coffee
It's time for Second Coffee and a chat. I like second coffee. It almost seems decadent in a way. I've had the wake me up coffee, now I'm having coffee just because it's there. The beans are already ground, and the water is getting hot in my sunshine yellow teapot, because one uses the French… Continue reading Second Coffee
