WordPress recently notified me that I've been blogging on this site for 18 years. First of all, where did that time go? And secondly, there is a need to post with greater frequency. So here I am today blogging away with my favorite movie in the background. Tidying up my studio from four weeks of… Continue reading Well, where did that 18 years go?
Tag: Cherrywood Fabrics
February 13, 2026
A post in three parts One. I love teaching color. Color is delightful, beautiful, complicated, simple, personal, unique, common, playful, as delightfully messy as mud and as wildly clean as rainbows after a summer storm. There are several things I'm doing with color right now: Showing the remake of Split Complementerity on the great pict-o-gram… Continue reading February 13, 2026
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Welcome to 2026
After finishing piecing a row of quilt blocks I checked the stitch count on the BERNINA 560 and it's just over 1.5 million stitches since the last service. That was just over five years ago. That's not a lot of stitches when 3 million per year is average expected. I clearly have not been doing… Continue reading Welcome to 2026
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Quilted Features: Cherrywood Fabrics Karla Overland
The other day I stopped to pet fabric, Cherrywood of course, releasing the fabric pheromones containing all the ideas a quilter might ever need for that well curated palate, patiently waiting for its turn at the sewing machine. You do know that fabric, particularly fabric waiting it's forever home in the local quilt shop, is… Continue reading Quilted Features: Cherrywood Fabrics Karla Overland
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Cherrywood Van Gogh Exhibit at NSQS
Vincent van Gogh is, without a doubt, a fascinating artist, who struggled with mental illness. His work stirs something deep within my soul. When Karla Overland, the brains and challenger-in-chief behind the challenges: Lion King, Van Gogh, Prince (happening now!) These challenges bring out something absolutely amazing in the imagination of the quilt community. Seeing… Continue reading Cherrywood Van Gogh Exhibit at NSQS
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A Quilt Show, A Dinner Date and a Finish
It came upon a midnight clear...ooops wrong season, totally. Didja ever have one of those moments when you knew, just new that the next step would be incredibly painful? Me too! I torqued my back on Thursday. Making walking home just the most pleasant experience. Ow! Ow! Ow! Well it's easing out and will be… Continue reading A Quilt Show, A Dinner Date and a Finish
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Sunday, Sunday Just Love That Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh4APEqjx8F/?taken-by=terilucas Ever have one of those days where ya think, "hey! I'm making great progress here?" Me too! Those are great days. A few minutes after I posted this, and 5 eighteen inch seams later I realized that the bobbin ran out. Most of what you see in that pic had to be stitched… Continue reading Sunday, Sunday Just Love That Day
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and now back to our regularly scheduled program
Hi, my name is Teri, and I'm a procrastinator! Shocking, right? Well some procrastination happens because there are moments when I do my best work at the last minute, and some happens because I'm completely freaked out by the task at hand. Yeah it happens. I managed to finish my part of the task and… Continue reading and now back to our regularly scheduled program
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Can you believe this nonsense?
On a bright, lovely afternoon the stitching started badly. BADLY For some reason a birds nest built up on the back of a quilt as I stitched. Wow. Evicted that bit of nonsense forthwith, started stitching again. Not five minutes later I stitched a big pleat right into the front. Well. That little quilt is… Continue reading Can you believe this nonsense?
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Quilt Market & Festival
I offered to help setting up in the RNK/Quilters Select Booth, getting to meet some of my new co-workers. This has been so much good. I ran into Alex & John Anderson. As you probably know Alex has a line of product with RNK called Quilters Select. Even before I joined the company I started… Continue reading Quilt Market & Festival
