All of these girls love the outdoors.
Sketching – Shy and Unsure
I have been sketching while on conference calls, watching tav or just because. While I’m tacking some new projects in my studio, I’ll be sharing sketching with you. Sometimes these sketches become quilts, or they spark new projects. I sketch with pencil or ball point while I’m working and dig out my Pigma Micron pens […]
Fox Field Quilt
In March, I saw emails from Craftsy about a Tula Pink Fox Field fabric mystery quilt. I order the mystery quilt kit and a few charm packs. When I the pattern was released in mid April and I saw the diamonds, I was initially paralyzed; my prior piecing attempts with diamond had not gone well. […]
2014 Holiday: Colors and Patterns
Part of the fun of traveling for me is discovering new patterns and color combinations. I found them at the Tulip Museum. The windows in the Rijksmuseum Flower stand at a market in Haarlem. Fake tulips in Amsterdam and a church floor in Kerkrade A quilt displayed in a quilt store (Yes, I visited 2 […]
2014 Holiday: KattenKabinet
While we were in Amsterdam, we visited a cat museum, I had read about. The museum is one of the few canal houses you can tour. The house was amazing and the collection of cat artwork is fabulous. There were posters, paintings, drawings… …and even a Picasso. This ‘Cat from Outer Space’ poster inspired movie […]
2014 Holiday: Amazing Architecture
America is a relatively new country and we don’t have centuries old buildings, especially not here in Alaska where most building were constructed in the 1970s and 1980s. I really enjoyed the variety of architecture we saw on our trip. Here are some of my favorites. Grote Kerk (Church) in Haarlem Interior of Grote Kerk […]
2014 Holiday: Mosel Valley and Burg Eltz
After leaving Rolduc Abbey we headed to Germany. We wanted to visit the Mosel Valley and Burg Eltz, a fairy tale castle. The castle above is not Burg Eltz, it was one of the castles we passed via train on the way to a town called Moselkern. The towns along the Mosel River were beautiful. […]
2014 Holiday: Rolduc Abbey
After Amsterdam, we headed to Rolduc Abbey in Kerkrade, a small town in the Netherlands near Germany. My husband had a conference there and the quiet of the Abbey was a welcome change. The grounds were beautiful. Early in the day this lake was surrounded by local fisherman. And if you followed the path behind […]
2014 Holiday: Amsterdam and Haarlem
A holiday far away from home is amazing but after 12 days, I was ready to return home to the kitties and my own bed. After one night in Frankfurt, Germany to adjust to the time zone, we boarded a train for Amsterdam. We then spent 4 days exploring Amsterdam and a nearby city of […]