Monday, March 15, 2010

Trying Out Borders

I love being able to try out border ideas in Electric Quilt.  I am thinking that I will be looking for something like the photo below.  I have to head out to the quilt store tomorrow.  Hopefully some of the flooding has gone down by then.

orange sky with borders

Chris

Orange Sky at Night

I am sure you have all heard that weather expression.  Although I think it is Red sky at night…sailor’s delight.  I did get some work done on my challenge landscape. 

The orange sky and water fabric I painted a couple of years ago in a class that I took at Quilt University.  I am finally getting around to using it.

orange sky new

Chris

A Good Week Planned

Although I have been off since last Friday, I feel like my official spring break starts today. I usually don't teach on Fridays and normally have off on Saturdays and Sundays. So today I would normally go back to work. On a typical Monday I have 2 lectures and one lab to teach. So the fact that I got to sleep in this morning (until 7:30 am instead of the usual 5:45 am wake up time) and not have to go to my college today makes me feel like the break has finally started. I am sure that it will fly by really fast. It always amazes me how fast a vacation goes compared to a regular work week.
So what do I have planned this week?

  • The usual exercise and eating healthy of course. I am down 26 pounds at this point!!!
  • Going to Dress Barn to look for some new clothes.
  • Finishing a landscape quilt that I am working on for a challenge.
  • Working on taxes.
  • Going to the St. Patrick's Parade on Wednesday in NYC. My husband is a bagpiper so I will be walking with other family members behind his pipe and drum band (St. Anne's of Hampton, NJ). If you are watching the parade on TV look for his band. Sometimes we have been on TV. I think the weather is going to be nice. Thank goodness it won't be like what we had last weekend. Here is a photo of my handsome hubby.

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  • Waiting to see my daughter at the end of the week when she comes home for her spring break.
  • Generally just relaxing and not having to look at students for an entire week!

Chris

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Taking a Class

Since I have been having a hard time getting motivated to do any quilting, I decided to take a class at Quilt University.  I think I have the quilter’s equivalent of writer’s block. I think this class that starts in about a month will get me out of my slump and get me creating again.

It is a new class at QU called “Inspired to Design.”  It is taught by a quilt artist named Elizabeth Barton.  Here is her website if you want to check out her work.

Elizabeth Barton Art Quilts

I am glad that I signed up for the class as soon as I got the QU newsletter since it is already closed.

Chris