Archive | September, 2005
Uncommon Threads WOW

Uncommon Threads WOW

Here’s a new quilt that Cathy Jeffery showed at our Uncommon Threads meeting last week. I love this quilt! I always love the scrappy ones. In October, it will be Uncommon Threads 2nd anniversary. We just finished our WOW exhibition at the Driskill Gallery based on a triptych challenge that the group started last year. [...]

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Illustration Friday – Fresh!

Illustration Friday – Fresh!

I thought of this drawing for Illustration Friday’s theme Fresh early this morning. To get the full effect, I think you have to imagine how Jerry Seinfeld would say “Fresh!”

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The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter

While in North Carolina, I tried to hook up with some art quilters. I did get a chance to visit Lyric Kinard’s studio and very much enjoyed seeing her quilts, studio and her great art books. However, I was chicken about taking photos – somehow it seemed intrusive. But check out her web site for [...]

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Good Mail Day

Good Mail Day

Oh goody! Someone sent me a big box, and it’s very heavy. But what can be inside? Could it possibly be ….fabric? Ho ho – it is fabric! But who could have possibly known how much I like stripes and polka-dots? Just kidding, it was me of course. I drove from Cary to Carrboro to [...]

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The Stick Man

The Stick Man

On Tuesday, we went to see the North Carolina Museum of Art and also get a bit of homework done for an on-line class I’m taking called Museums and Artists. The NCMA was getting ready to open a contemporary exhibition called Crosscurrents: Art, Craft and Design in North Carolina in cooperation with the Mint Museums. [...]

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