Coastal Quilters, January, and what to do on a cold winter’s day, if you’re a cat
Well, it has been nearly two weeks since Coastal Quilters met (the local quilt guild chapter), and it has taken me this long to blog about it! That’s what happens when you’re switching computers, making two quilts, and doing all the other stuff besides! Since I gave a talk on thread, I was a bit discombobulated, and just enjoying show and share, when I realized I really should be taking pictures! I missed some great quilts, but got the OK from Betty and Carrie to share these two.
Betty is an AMAZING quilter! I told her that day that she has, hands down, the best “eye” for composition and basically everything out of anyone in the group including me, Jan, Roxanne and everyone else. Here she is (trying to hide behind her quilt). She does all her work by hand, and has a small apartment, so her pieces are small. This one has the most gloriously stitched and beaded dreamcatcher on the front…wish I had gotten a detail photo of it!
Carrie Hedstrom is a young (well, compared to me! Anyone under 40 qualifies as young!) mom, and budding art quilter who has recently joined our ranks. She used a piece of McKenna Ryan’s gradation fabric for the center of this piece (I think the colorway was this one) :
I thought it was a very effective usage of the fabric, and the quilting was interesting too…can’t wait to see where she goes/grows from here!
And you may have heard (including here, from me!) about our sub-zero Fahrenheit weather. We are in a mild spell..it got up to about 31 or so today, but this past weekend (when I was off teaching, then downstairs working on Monday and Tuesday) I didn’t turn the heat on in my studio / workroom over the unheated garage. MISTAKE! The heating pipes FROZE. You’d think the frozen-solid water in the cup inside my car would have been a clue, but nope…I was clueless. Well, we put electric radiators in both the room and the garage (with its single pane windows, one of which has two broken, cereal-box-covered panes) to thaw things out. The good news is that I have turned the water supply to the pipes which heat the baseboard heaters, and so far no apparent leaks or water damage…we may have dodged a bullet…PHEW! Ripping out walls to repair ruptured pipes isn’t fun, or cheap!
Meanwhile, Paul took this pic of three of the cats asleep in his room. They know what to do on a cold winter’s day in Maine! Tyger is the orange tabby, Zeus is the Siamese, and Hannah Chan is the mackerel tabby. Smart kitties!