Archive for January, 2014

Class @ Home Ec Workshop, FEB 8 & 15, 2014

Posted by ewquilts on January 23, 2014 in Classes |

  SATs FEB 8 & 15, 10A-1P, Home Ec Workshop, Iowa City “Wonky” Double Cross Learn to make this wonderful quilt pattern by Pam Rocco. Work toward a finished 50″ x 50″ quilt in this 6-hr class, or take the top home and make three more to construct a quilt fit for a QUEEN! Perfect gift […]

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Abiquiu, New Mexico (December 29, 2013-January 4, 2014)

Posted by ewquilts on January 12, 2014 in Inspiration, Photography |

 On-board the Southwest Chief (Amtrak)  El Santuario de Chimayo, Chimayo, New Mexico  Chimayo with faralitos  Hwy 84 north of Abiquiu, New Mexico  13-mile Forest Service road to monastery  Rio Chama  Christ in the Desert monastery  bush at monastery  stations of the cross at monastery  Los Ojos, New Mexico  Hwy 84 north of Abiquiu, New Mexico […]

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Tubu – one quilt begets another

Posted by ewquilts on January 11, 2014 in WIP (Work-In-Progress) |

My September 2012 trip to Shanghai, began in this bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa…   …where I bought an exhibit catalog containing this image: “Sea of Japan in Winter” (1983) It is a quilt by Shizuko Kuroha, which appears to made largely of indigo fabrics from Japan.  This quilt inspired me to to make my own version of […]

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THE GALLERY: 2012-2013

Posted by EW on January 2, 2014 in Uncategorized |

2017 | 2016 | 2014-2015 | 2012-20132010-2011 | 2008-2009 | 2006-20072004-2005 | 2002-2003 | 1999-2001Birthday Quilts 2012 – 2013 (Click on image to view larger.) One Life 92 x 92 2013 Swim 96 x 96 2013 Venus Transit 96 x 96 2012 Madonna Inn85 x 90 2012 Human’s Race88 x 88 2012 “Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths & biscuits.” – Carl Sandberg

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THE GALLERY: 2014-2015

Posted by EW on January 1, 2014 in Uncategorized |

2017 | 2016 | 2014-2015 | 2012-20132010-2011 | 2008-2009 | 2006-20072004-2005 | 2002-2003 | 1999-2001Birthday Quilts 2014 – 2015 (Click on image to view larger.) Overshot 90 x 90 2015 Map of the World 92 x 98 2014 Blue Horizon 99 x 99 2014 “Each act is virgin, even repeated ones.” – René Char

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June 19, 2014 – Piecemakers Quilt Guild, Galesburg, IL

Posted by ewquilts on January 1, 2014 in Speaking Engagements |

7:00PM – “A Piece of Me” iMovie with Q&A session/trunk showGalesburg Christian School, 746 Hawkinson Avenue, Galesburg, IL 61401.(Rescheduled from FEB 21, 2013).

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