Ephemeral Chaos

Grades are due in three days, so of course I am quilting. I entered one of the more tractable chickens in our local pet parade a few weeks...

Our friends Andy and Hope got married earlier this year in a wonderful ceremony on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River. Everything ...

I've got a bunch of dotty type items today, some about ephemera. Hence the title. Here we go, in roughly chronological order. First, her...

We have a joint birthday party to attend this weekend and wanted to come up with some nice gifts. Don't worry, the recipients don't ...

The latest Piecework is out to subscribers, but has not yet hit the bookstores. I've had a chance to leaf through it, but not to read e...

a stack of ungraded papers. a copy of the anniversary issue of Vogue Knitting . I have knit the anniversary scarf and made up the flowers. ...

Inspired by Wendy and by a flyer I picked up at a Craft Mafia show, I decided to make a cat mat and sprinkled catnip inside the blocks as ...

Without much notice, I was drafted into participating in a sanitary fair next month. Sanitary fairs can be a challenge to reenact, simply b...

Today. Today I am sick. Spring cold. It's not a pretty thing. While a wee bit of knitting has been happening, along with watching A Soul...

In my typical fashion when I have a project due, I'm currently immersed in researching something else, particularly the Mississippi Vall...

I have a good feeling about 2007. It started out really well at a great party/jam session and with a Burning Man( dolin ) ceremony and about...

Anyone who has quilted knows how easy it can be to lose sight of the big picture. We spend hours and hours focusing on connecting one 2.5...

I read blogs regularly--okay, obsessively--and I deal with writing for a living. I have pretty high standards, which is why I've been av...