Periodic Table Project

I saw an interesting project posted on the blog Boing Boing
About a cool project called the “Periodic Table Printmaking Project.” In this project, a collection of 96 printmakers worked together and individually produced sections of the Periodic Table. You can read more about this HERE.

I wonder how quilters would tackle a project like this? That would be an interesting concept!

Workspace Challenge

I will join you in the Jazz up Your Workspace challenge. I recently painted my cubicle walls a cinnamon brown and have 2 of my primitive quilts hanging.

Laura Hahn

THANKS LAURA! These are GREAT!

Another "QUILT- UP YOUR WORKSPACE" entry!

A year ago, we painted my office and DH (my boss, J) let me choose my paint color, so I choose yellow, and I decided to hang my Diamond Bargello quilt, so that I could see it daily and add some brightness to my work day. Since then, everyone that enters my office sees it and commented on it, so now, I spread beautiful smile to many.

Enchie NainiPickering, Ontario Canada

Sunday Sewing

Last week was extremely busy, not a moment to spare. So yesterday (Sunday) I spent a few hours sewing to unwind. Here's what I worked on:

Baby Shower for Kim and Samantha Today

<---Aliyah, Kim and Krista

What a fun afternoon! Kim's twin sister Krista had a shower for her today so she'd have some clothes and other "girly stuff" for Baby Samantha Jane. Samantha's birthday is scheduled for Feb. 15th, 2008. We had a fun afternoon at the Family Buggy Restaurant in Farmington Hills, MI, a great lunch, super good cake and lots of laughs and talk. Here's a few pictures...

Kimmie and both anxious Grandmas: Caron (me) and Karen.








How much candy and cake can one little boy eat? Plenty! Samantha's big brother Jacob helped open presents. Here, Krista grabbed my camera and snapped a picture of him with a big gumball in his mouth. Jake is SO excited about "his baby!"

The First "QUILT- UP YOUR WORKSPACE" Entry!

Our first "QUILT- UP YOUR WORKSPACE" entry (and a beautifully appliqued piece, I might add) comes from one of my Dear Jane friends in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Rosa Robichaud


"In November, I received a mini poppy quilt kit from my Secret Pal. Since Iwork for a Veteran's Association, I decided to make it and hang it up, in my office. Monday, I think it was, I brought it into work and hung it up.


Thanks for sharing it with us, Rosa!


I posted The "QUILT-UP YOUR WORKSPACE" Challenge yesterday. Here are the directions:

Hang your little quilt at work and send me a picture! Either post it on YOUR blog and give me the link, or send the photo to me and I'll post it on my blog for you (giving you credit, of course). Let's spread a little color and add some smiles in the workplace.

Please forward the challenge to all your quilting friends, and get the fun going!

Jazz up Your Work Space With a Quilt!

OK, Workers of America,
it's time to jazz up your work space with a little color. A little pizazz, a little quilty something.

I've been at my new job for a little over a month now, and the grey cubicle is a little too grey and drab for my tastes. Some of the people where I work have decorated their space, but mostly with photos of their kids, grandkids, pets, etc. You can see I have a pic of Jacob up in the corner, but I still needed to get into the decorating mode. What better way to add a splash of color than with a small Q U I L T ? The little Attic Windows quilt here in blue and black was made years ago. I put it up yesterday morning, and almost everyone who walks by says, "That's a pretty poster!" I have to explain to them that it is a quilt. They get closer and look at it, and go, "HUMPH. So it is!"


I say it's time we jazz up our workspaces out in the world with some hand-made quilts, so...

Here's your chance to break up the winter cabin fever:

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The "QUILT-UP YOUR WORKSPACE" Challenge

Hang your little quilt at work and send me a picture! Either post it on YOUR blog and give me the link, or send the photo to me and I'll post it on my blog for you (giving you credit, of course). Let's spread a little color and add some smiles in the workplace.

Another great idea would be to create a little Alzheimer quilt for the

Alzheimer Art Quilt Initiative. Hang it in your work space for a few weeks, send me a photo or put it on your blog (see above), but make sure that your fellow workers know it is going up for auction. Submit it to the Alzheimer Art Quilt Initiative and mail it in following Ami's great directions (see the website). Then, when it is going up for auction, let everybody at work know so they can bid on it. You could even turn it into a competition at work to see if someone can be the highest bidder! (Aw shucks, toss the winner a candybar or offer to buy them lunch!)

Let's warm up the workplace with quilts!

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Please update your link

The website for the Alzheimer Quilt Initiative has been moved. It is now located at
http://www.alzquilts.org/ . Please make this change in your bookmarks, and forward it on to your friends, family, people you don't know, people on other planets...

you get the idea.

Since her quilt design appeared in The Blackbird Design publication “In Mollie's Garden,” quilter Yelena Elliott has been living much more than her 15 minutes of fame. Check it out here.

Chintz and Paisley (is that a song?)

I love all kinds of fabric, except, perhaps, old plaids. My mom always dressed me in plaid when I was little, and I hated it then. Still do!



I love chintz. Big, flowery chintz. I don't have any in my house, but I am drawn to it. Check out the beautiful rose chintz here at Style Court.



If you like reproduction fabrics, have you seen the website? Fabrics from any era, the late 1700's on. Wow! I love the blue paisley, but I'm not a "blue girl" anymore. That was in my country days!




Now THIS fabric might appeal to you if you like Paisley! Pink, green and black... find it at the Interior Mall.



My absolute favorite place to shop for quilt fabrics is at eQuilter.com. I love how you can use the design board to see how well the fabrics you've chosen go together. Check out the collection of paisley they have at eQuilter!


Lots more beautiful chintz fabric is available at DutchQuilts.com. I love the reds! Mmmmmm, beautiful!


If you are a fabriholic, I hope these sites give you a few good minutes to browse. Or, like me, the entire morning!

Happy shopping!

A Few More Blocks, A Few More Sniffles

So it's official. I have/had what my doctor calls the "creeping crud." Cold, chills, aches, drippy nose, cough, you name it, I've got it. That allowed me some down time Sunday and Monday to get some sewing done while watching some trashy T.V. shows. I love hand sewing, and these little blocks were all completed by hand.

Once I get into hand sewing, whether it is piecing or applique, I tend to pick up speed and am able to accomplish just as much as if I had machine pieced or appliqued. I find it so relaxing... but some of these little tiny pieces are so small they are hard to hang onto!

Cats and Cathedrals

This furry rascal likes to be near me wherever I am. Last night she wedged herself between the wall and the back of my laptop. A very narrow space, but toasty where she can watch mom. She gets upset if I'm away very long, and last night after dinner, I made my way to the basement to sew the little triangle block, below. Dean was on the treadmill down there, and we don't let Stormie in the basement when the treadmill is going, so she was by herself upstairs, being VERY lonely. By the time I returned to the upstairs, she was fit to be tied.

The block here is LS-10, Megan's Cathedral. Not enough contrast in the colors, but the focus fabric is one I remember fondly. It is from a shirt I made for myself probably 25 years ago. The block is paper pieced, but at the very bottom there are two triangles on the edge that I appliqued (rather than inset).

I did a little wandering around on the Web this morning, and visited Joe Cunningham's website. I love Joe's work. It has an eye-catching appeal, and the man is a FANTASTIC quilter. Check it out! It wouldn't be fair to mention Joe without mentioning my friend and former neighbor, Mary Schafer. What a wonderful lady she was!!! She is now in the Quilter's Hall of Fame, and you can read about here here.

OK Gwen, let's include your website, too. I wish you'd get online up there on Beaver Island! If you want a great quilt retreat, head up to Northern Michigan with Gwen for a fall retreat.

More later... work is calling.

Consider the Lilies

I found this quilt on WebShots, and thought it was absolutely gorgeous... it is by Frances Murphy, Brewster, MA 2nd place, appliqued bed quilts in the Vermont Quilt Festival, 2005. Wow! This photo is too tiny to do it justice. To see it in its larger size, please go to this page. Loving the quilt, I looked on the Internet for more of her work, hoping to find a blog. Sadly, I learned that Frances passed away in October of 2005. Another of her quilts can be seen at the link above.

The picture to the right is the top left corner "kite" of my DJ quilt. The original by Jane Stickle was pieced, but I chose to applique mine. The white lines have been put on the photo so you can kind of see the actual shape of the block. I allowed a lot extra on the edges... just incase!


I had another little block I was going to post this morning, but last night when I pressed it I also took my best scissor and trimmed the seam allowances to their scant 1/4 inch width. Well, everything was looking GREAT... until that last slice went OOPS and sliced a little chunk from one of the side patches. So, until I replace that piece, it won't get posted. Don't you hate it when things like that happen?



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Change Can Be Good

While I was getting ready for work today, the news was on the bedroom TV with talk about Michigan's Primary Election being today. This election brings a change to the voting process, and you have to declare which party you are voting for. And, because Michigan screwed up, the Democrats won't have any delegates at the national convention. ARGH. Michigan seems to be going further and further into the toilet.

Change. Not just something in your pocket, but something you face on a regular basis. Sometimes it can be good, sometimes bad. It's all in the way you look at it, I suppose.

The photo here shows you the change we made to color on our walls. Dean painted the dining room and kitchen wall last summer from boring beige to this cinnamon-orange color. I didn't think I'd like it, but I LOVE it! We also have a dark green bedroom and a very dark plum color in our smaller bathroom. We totally surprised our kids, who were shocked that we joined the world of color.

I'll post some quilty photos tonight, but for now, it's off to vote! I'm lucky... my voting place is my own church, Flushing United Methodist Church.

This 'n That

Do you use a blog reader? This past week, I introduced my hubby to Google Reader and I think he’s coming to enjoy it. I regularly read many other quilt blogs with Google Reader, and it makes keeping up with my online quilting and blogging friends MUCH easier. Check it out!

I used to be a real estate agent… up until December of last year. I am still getting a LOT of phone calls, and I get a lot of people coming to my website CaronMosey.com looking for real estate information. SORRY! There are many great Realtors out there, and I am happy to recommend these to you:

Cheryl Moberly in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area
and
George Keely in the Flint, Michigan area

Cheryl took over my listings and real estate business when I left real estate, and George is my friend and a real estate broker, one heck of a great Realtor. If you need real estate information, please contact one of them.

Speaking of houses, do you like the Bungalow style of home? Then check out Bungalow Pros http://www.bungalowpros.com/ . This company is located in Madison, Wisconsin, but their website is GREAT! Not only do they have plans for building bungalows, run an interior design business, but they have a retail shop as well. I LOVE their stuff!

I sewed a little block today... A-4 of my Dear Jane quilt. I like doing a little sewing each day. It helps relax me, quiet my body and brain. I have a quilt top I need to get hand quilting on, but it isn't sandwiched and pinned yet. Also, with the baby coming in mid-February, I don't want to spread myself too thin. I tend to do that and get too many projects going at once. I need to get started on Samantha's christening gown, so the hand quilting will have to wait awhile, I'm afraid.

Ready for a giggle? You may have heard the Christian song "Jesus Take the Wheel" before. It's a pretty song. Check out this video version. It will put a smile on your face. Be sure to turn your speakers up, and be prepared to smile.

Have a great weekend!