In addition to being a long weekend, labour day weekend most often falls on my birthday.  This year, I spent a lot of time in my sewing room, but for the most part, not sewing:



 I was re-organizing my sewing room and stash, building furniture from Ikea for my sewing room (those dressers will be red soon, as will the dining table [six feet long!] I bought at a yard sale about a month ago), but I did find time for some sewing - namely those sewing machine covers at the back of my sewing room. 

My quilt, "Of The Moment" is being featured over at Generation Q Magazine for their Saturday Feature. Are you familiar with them?  Generation Q Magazine is the brain child of Jake Finch, Melissa Thompson Maher, Megan Dougherty and Scott Hansen.  They're this great blogzine (also resource/community) for modern and contemporary quilters - if you don't know about them you should totally check them out. :) They have great articles of all kinds and fun giveaways too!



So, for those of you who haven't already seen this, welcome to my blog! I'm delighted to have you here.  :)

When I conceived of this quilt, I remember thinking "I want to make a contemporary quilt - you know, something that's of the moment".  And as I put these silks together in this particular configuration, I wondered whether this quilt was not only of the moment, but whether its design would stand the test of time.

Although I got tired of thread painting, I still wasn't ready to spend "real" time in my sewing room, so I've been working on a simple quilt...

Have a great weekend everyone!

You know how sometimes you just. don't. feel. like doing anything? You've got that feeling like you should be doing something, but you just don't wanna?



Previously, when I got in that space, I used to make simple quilts like nine patches or railway ties, a lot of baby quilts got made in that space with incredibly detailed quilting - to get me back in the swing of things.

I'm MIA. :)


I'll be back after this short vacation.  :)

I haven't had access to my sewing room for the past week, so I thought I would try some hand work, using a piece of my hand-dyed cloth.



Because I didn't have a quilting or embroidery hoop (since I don't actually embroider!), I first sewed the cloth and batting down to a piece of stretched and framed canvas, and then began my hand stitching.

I kinda suck at it - so there's been a lot of re-do-ing.  *w*

But if it goes where I want it to, I'm gonna like it.