tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-272527162024-03-13T02:55:19.069-04:00sewprimitive quilter"To conceive an idea is noble; to execute the work is servile" -- Leonardo da Vinci (which is why I have so many UFOs)sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.comBlogger554125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-55473357487660956462013-03-03T20:45:00.004-05:002013-03-03T20:45:47.088-05:00Auction's UpThis link should take you to my seller profile, which should let you see all the items that are up for auction. "Should" being the operative word.
Auctions will end this Sunday, 10 MAR 2013. Any questions, feel free to contact me through Ebay's message system.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/racecar_is_a_palindrome/m.html_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-46633943448983273762013-02-11T17:35:00.000-05:002013-02-11T17:35:05.176-05:00Charity AuctionSeveral people have expressed an interest in having some of my mother's crafts. While I am very attached to anything that she made, she was such a prolific artist that she did leave literal rooms full of quilts, paintings, and other hand crafts to me. I've pulled out items that had special significance to me, and am planning on putting the rest of her items into a charity auction withsewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-36065960518452739642013-02-04T14:29:00.001-05:002013-02-04T14:29:32.285-05:00This is Tim. My mom died on Friday night at her home in Atlanta. She passed relatively calmly, surrounded by me, her pets, and the attending nurses. The crafting community and this blog gave her a lot of joy. Thanks so much for being a part of her life and sharing these experiences with her.
Timsewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com97tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-29130358896539864682012-12-29T10:26:00.001-05:002012-12-29T10:40:55.806-05:00Turn, Turn, TurnI am looking forward to getting back to quilting, including the BB Suffrage blocks and to my Judie Rothermel contest idea, which looks SO pretty. My studio is so gorgeous and bright and I want to use it. Every day, I think, am I up for it today?
A few ornament favorites...Marcie and her daughter put the lights on this tree. Then Muriel put on the ornaments the next day. &sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-58664976435127536642012-12-12T09:33:00.002-05:002012-12-12T09:33:20.007-05:00GiftsJust look at this amazing small quilt gift from Marcie. Isn't it darling?
Marcie came by to visit on Friday and Saturday because she was visiting her daughter, Jennifer. I was in pretty bad shape and they cleaned my bathrooms for me! They haven't been that clean since last January and I can't tell you, girls, how grateful I am. I also need cleaning tips for that sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-16210266396382731812012-12-03T05:46:00.002-05:002012-12-03T05:46:48.620-05:00Giveaway Results: I'm a little under the weatherFor anybody who is awaiting the giveaway results, do not despair, but I have been sick these past two weeks and do not know how much longer it will go on since I am on a new chemo drug. sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-65746188690493320312012-11-18T07:01:00.002-05:002012-11-18T07:05:41.611-05:00BB Suffrage #12, Holiday Bliss, and GiveawayLatest Barbara Brackman Grandmother's Choice, or as it is called in my little file, suffrageblock12:
This is the wonderful Victoria Classics Holiday Bliss that I recently won from Kimber at Heirlooms by Ashton House. You know that Kimber is a very busy editor. She edited many of the features in this magazine,
including the Cranwell Resort hotel profile:
and Winter sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-14439111212029630282012-11-15T17:43:00.001-05:002012-11-15T17:44:36.421-05:00voting at mortonmasterpiece.comThe voting began today on mortonmasterpiece.com. Of course you know which one is MY favorite it's KAREN'S version of A Bountiful Life that I have shown you.
Isn't it adorable!!! I am truly in shock over this quilt, the bright Jo fabrics, Karen's divine applique technique, those dear, dear bird/fruit/animal motifs, oh what could be better.
Anyway, go vote (no ulterior sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-19030990818688970472012-11-11T11:21:00.002-05:002012-11-11T13:38:42.122-05:00BB Suffrage #11
This week's BB Suffrage block is a schoolhouse and has to do with the shocking lack of education available to women in the first few centuries of America's colonial and early republic life, i.e., how when Lucy Stone wanted to go to college, the only option was Oberlin. I have always been so proud of the fact that Oberlin is in Ohio, my birth state. The background areas in the sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-8215970969171221102012-11-10T07:19:00.003-05:002012-11-10T07:19:32.233-05:00BB Suffrage #10
BB Suffrage #10. Took a while to figure out how to summarize the content of BB's post; so much more could have gone in but where lol?sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-24784403199505687022012-10-28T07:46:00.003-04:002012-10-28T07:53:35.547-04:00Much to ShowI have about a zillion photos to show you. The reason is that there are Show and Tell photos, photos from the recent Quilt Expo in Atlanta, photos from the Country Living Fair that I attended yesterday with a good friend, and even a photo or two of my own doings :-).
I probably won't say too much about all of this because this is my only day at home and I have about a hundred things I sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-64656525674463043942012-10-23T06:13:00.001-04:002012-10-23T06:13:10.223-04:00BB Suffrage 08
Squeak, no time to write, late for work!sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-18312720974509879932012-10-12T08:40:00.001-04:002012-10-12T08:40:12.293-04:00Not Dead FredWell, as Not Dead Fred sings in Spamalot, I'm Not Dead Yet (listen to it on youtube if you aren't familiar with it: David Hyde Pierce (Niles on Frasier) has a job of piling up the plague victims and Lancelot happens along; it is the funniest thing. I do have to go for another dang, er, blessed, treatment in a few minutes, with no end in sight.
No time for Show and Tell from Vintage Design sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-84318643518474903562012-10-08T08:16:00.000-04:002012-10-08T08:16:41.381-04:00Several Things but maybe Design Wall for next Post
The BB Suffrage block for this week: deals with how women used to have to leave their children behind if they had to leave a marriage. Also forfeited whatever fortune they had brought into the marriage since that automatically became part of the husband's assets upon the marriage.
I ordered this pillow cover from a Swedish company called Countrybymail. When it arrived, I ironed sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-53054331940683296862012-10-01T18:25:00.003-04:002012-10-01T18:25:52.538-04:00Suffrage Blocks 4 and 5Too tired to post more, but here are BB Suffrage Blocks 4 and 5:
sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-88381402438548250022012-09-16T17:55:00.002-04:002012-09-17T02:29:21.919-04:00A Bountiful Life - by Karen of Moose Bay Muses: all Jo!Karen, whose blog is Moose Bay Muses, is making A Bountiful Life in such cheerful, mostly or all Jo Morton fabrics. Just look at these wonderful blocks (oh, the colors) and be sure to bookmark her blog for more blocks (she also has a delightful version of the summer's Temecula Star quilt; be sure to look it up).
Holy Cats, these blocks are adorable!!
I don't even know what to saysewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-47182349164591212592012-09-09T16:59:00.002-04:002012-09-09T17:17:27.752-04:00Barbara Brackman's First Two Suffrage Blocks
First two...thank you, Barbara!
The hair has indeed mostly gone. I got a nice extremely short haircut and at least feel somewhat tidied up again. The hairdresser was an angel about it. She knew exactly how I felt, bless her. Forge on.
Oh, I forgot to take a picture of our meals....Timmy and I ate at the Salt Factory in Roswell today. It was the most sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-54236831047274329692012-08-29T05:31:00.002-04:002012-08-29T06:23:44.302-04:00HairOh, drat. I think my hair is falling out.
sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-17038741920289667102012-08-26T18:55:00.000-04:002012-08-26T20:13:12.179-04:00Sunday EveningI never saw a day go by so fast in my entire life. Oh well, I had fun putting together this quilt top, starting with a set of old star blocks from....the 40s or thereabouts. They were hand-stitched and carefree in their dimensions and wavy in their flying geesies, so it was quite the project forcing them into the prescribed 7-3/4" finished block size :-). I decided to ignore sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-17145011012519994342012-08-19T16:40:00.002-04:002012-08-20T04:37:10.136-04:00Sunday EveningI got a tied quilt on eBay that first was in USPS la la land for so long that I reported it as lost (that's all you have to do to have a package arrive the next day, so that's what I did). The seller sent it parcel post to go from Oregon to Georgia. I think I would have sent it a different, shall we say, swifter, way. I was hoping to take it apart and a) use the fabrics for sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-6244417266557260722012-08-06T17:33:00.000-04:002012-08-06T17:33:16.877-04:00Generous & ContentThis pattern is Generous & Content, by Cheri Payne, made today in autumnal Jo fabrics, although we won't be seeing cooler weather here in Atlanta for 2 1/2 months. The big heart still needs the feather stitch added. I love it!
sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-4038529847451700152012-08-01T13:54:00.001-04:002012-08-01T13:57:44.199-04:00Chairs and PearsI was so delighted to find this very early Country Windsor chair last week at the antique mall:
Looks like it has been tossed into a stripping tank, but you see the traces of black paint and the remains of stenciling. Looks like it is ca. 1830:
(from How to Restore and Decorate Chairs, by Roberta Ray Blanchard)
Here is the top-slat:
and what I think I see on it, the sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-1071722048278285792012-07-30T11:29:00.001-04:002012-07-30T11:37:34.329-04:00Wisconsin Fabric Haul and WI SightingsSo here are the fabrics that I got on the recent Wisconsin Quilt Shop Hop. I adore everything I got, which includes some delightful sampler linen and some red velvet. Also Primitive Gatherings had some scrumptious Japanese fabric that was marked down a bit.
Here are the patterns I got. Adore all of these. Isn't Spot the Horse irresistible?
And here is the Sue Daleysewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-79543619760184547572012-07-28T09:01:00.001-04:002012-07-28T09:01:08.967-04:00Temecula #4This is what I propose to do with the Temecula 2012 blocks:
This week, I got an old bed and a new mattress set for the express purpose of storing my quilts, both old and new, on the bed. Ah, no more fold lines as I long as I store them like this:
sewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27252716.post-89052461926834250672012-07-25T10:52:00.001-04:002012-07-25T10:53:40.430-04:00JJ Stitches Quilt Shop, Sun Prairie, WisconsinNow I knew from reading biographies of Georgia O'Keefe that there was nothing left to see of the fact that she grew up in Sun Prairie, but I still was excited to drive through her home town for the first time. Here are photos of JJ Stitches, another wonderful shop! Street view:
The 30s Feedsack section was set up as a baby nursery. Great idea!
Wonderful samplessewprimitive karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125490235366694521noreply@blogger.com8