Thanksgiving

There is a lot to be thankful for in my world. Today I finished my blue alpaca sweater, and wore it to a Thanksgiving feast at my Mother-in-Law's house, where the Chicago branch of the family flies in every year for food and celebration of Hanukkah. It is a bit of a dash to get food and gifts ready, but we managed it all. I made some rattatouie, which turned out to be incredibly hot, thanks to the addition of one little pepper...and some sweet potato casserole which I loved, but didn't get eaten much. I'll be having that for a few weeks, I think! It was fun to see how all the kids have grown and to try out my new sweater. Alpaca is incredibly warm, but it was a rainy dreary cold night, so I was glad to have it. Hope your day was good, too.

Sushi Man

I've gotten off easy for Halloween over the last 7 years. Each of my kids wore the same costume for 7 years: one was a Beanie Baby Squirrel, and the other was a grey squirrel. This year, B. decided to surprise the other kids and wanted to be a sushi roll. This took a bit of engineering; my husband created an armature out of fiberglass, tiewraps and plastic sheets; covered with black plastic bags this looked a lot like nori.
The top was constructed with white felt and sewn onto the fiberglass ring. When we glued on styrofoam packing peanuts to look like rice, we had a Bobby Roll. Cute enough to eat! Won "Best Costume" at a party already!

Luminosity Blues Detail

Here's a detail for you, Emily! The quilting is functional, but not so beautiful. I'm lazy! LOL.
Thanks for the comments! I love working with Paula Nadelstern's fabric. The colors and textures are marvelous.

Here is the back of the blue quilt; I used a very busy stripe, so you can't really see the quilting, but I like the whole color scheme, so it works for me!

Luminosity Blues

My collection of blue fabrics begged to become another Luminosity quilt. I used as many of the Luminosity by Paula Nadelstern ( www.paulanadelstern.com ) fabrics as I could find, plus a few from my stash that seemed to work in the design. I quilted it basically the same as the original one; arcs in the "plain" diamonds, and outlining motifs in the star sections. A fun quilt to make! I enjoyed teaching a workshop on this design at Clamshell Quilters Guild in Waterford, Connecticut last month, and was thrilled to see how each person brought her own ideas to personalize her quilt.

Pamela Ties

This marvelous tie was given to me by Pamela Allen at the IQA show in Houston in 2003: ....you can see more of them here: http://pamelart2.homestead.com/miscellaneous.html.

Fiberart For A Cause Postcards

I I decided to spend this week making some postcard sized quilts for the upcoming show and sale of fiberart postcards in Houston this year. Fiberart For A Cause: Supporting the American Cancer Society See: http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/NewFiles/ACSFundraiser.html for more information and the story behind this amazing project. Mine used hand dyed velvets, dupioni silk fused to Timtex and stitched with various threads. The fortunes are from fortune cookies I've gotten over the last few years, which I've saved for just this kind of project. I made a bunch of them , and am getting ready to send them in!