Archive for Grosvenor News

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Spent the afternoon at the clay spot studio. It was quite a productive session. Several pieces had been bisque fired, and so I tried to glaze them somehow. Because the glazes are new to me I tried to keep a record of what I was doing but this soon [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  Playing with Picasa, I made a collage featuring  Brown!When I went to get the picture from my collages folder, I noticed one that I made quite a while ago, featuring little fabric birds that I made.  It’s funny how one returns to similar shapes or ideas over and over [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  I spent some time with the bonnet girls quilt.  It needed a border, so I decided on a pretty simple strip-pieced squares on point.  It is a seminole technique where you cut up strip sets and sew them together in a staggered way, like a staircase, and the extra [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond We got home from Asheville, North Carolina, yesterday afternoon and it was a good trip!I created two photo collages to summarize the impressions of it:The first, I call, “Asheville in Spring Bloom” and the second, hits upon some of the eye candy to be seen there It is certainly [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I had a lot to take photos of today in Asheville, as we visited the Biltmore estate; the largest privately owned house in the u.s., at over 250 rooms, and 3 million planted trees, with beautifully laid out formal gardens and greenhouses. It was a lovely day, although rain [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Isn't this an interesting leaf? It has developed these raised spots like Braille writing. Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Although the rainclouds threatened, they didn't produce anything much! This photo was taken on my iPad with the hipstamatic app where you can use various film types and filters, it is a lot of fun, although it's pretty hit and miss what you end up with.– but that's the [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This is today’s block for the Saturday Surprise Sampler!  It is called Temple Court, and it is one of my favorites– although I seem to have a Lot of Favorites!! There is also a new applique block that is ready today! Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This afternoon we visited the haan gallery in Asheville, n.c. And there were several sculptural pieces by Emily Wilson. I loved her work, they are carved wood and welded steel rods that she paints–exquisitely, and combines to make these 3-d pieces. Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This is from a Robert bateman book that I was reading this afternoon. I love the colors he used. Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  A couple of days ago, I saw an idea that I just had to try, It is covering a wooden hanger with fabric,I decided to do it in steps.  So far, I cut around the shape of the hanger, about 1/4″ larger than the outline, I have a bottle [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I have had some trouble coming up with ideas for the coupon.  So I am a couple days later with it than I intended… Special Offer: with this coupon, you can receive 20% discount on your purchase of batiks– yardage and fat quarters! Just in time for summer sewing! [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I read this on the needleprint blog some time ago (It is one of the blogs that I have listed on the sidebar, written by Jacqueline Holdsworth ), and it has really stuck in my mind.  It is one of the most useful bits of advice on creativity and [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Aren’t weekend mornings the best time to think about all sorts of things?  things that happened over the past week, what you might want to accomplish over the next few days, gaze out the window and see what show nature is putting on today…  My orchid is blooming like [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Happy St Patrick’s Day, (especially to you, Patti!, happy Birthday) The weather has been fabulous, and the azaleas continue to bloom! We’ve had a quartet of turtles in the creek who like to sun themselves on a log, but they are very shy, when I try to take a [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Yesterday I did a little bit of sewing,I wanted to do a few more reference swatches for FMQ (Free Motion Quilting),   and so I did these four, but then my embroidery foot/FMQ foot, broke, so I had to stop.  (The metal bar just broke off!)  However, I am getting [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I’m trying to use screen captures from my iPad Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond The past few days have really been spring here,  with azaleas Everywhere! and now the garden centers are bringing out bedding plants.  We had some grass dug up a couple of days ago to turn into a larger area with ground cover instead and so we went out and [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Jean was the first person who correctly identified the item– it is indeed used for Popovers!Now I have choices– do I keep it in the kitchen for the remote possibility of ever making popovers? or use it as a catch-all in which to put pencils and paperclips, or perhaps [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond There are large mysteries, and small.  One thing that perhaps you can assist with is to identify what this mysterious object is:   (I bought it for 2$ yesterday at a flea market)  Well, I can sort of see what it “is”– six little cylindrical pots held together in a [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This is the 14th pieced block in the Saturday Surprise Sampler program at the store:This block is called Kite in the Air!(No applique block this week) Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This is the time that the azaleas are really spilling out into bloom everywhere you look!Just before they bloom, they have a little brown sticky covering,  they come in a wide variety of colours  And this morning the bees were really busy gathering whatever it is they gather, They [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  I started to machine quilt on my bright quilt that features applique patterns designed by Sue Spargo.  (I suppose I should figure out a shorter way to refer to this quilt. )  When I was thinking about how to quilt it, it occurred to me that it might be [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  Isn’t the color of that rose amazing?Okay, I ended my post yesterday with a cliffhanger!! I had somewhere to go last night! Where was it? from in the late ’90′s, porcellainous white stoneware with navy slip sgraffito, gold lustre Answer: A pottery class! It has been nearly 11 years!! since [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Yesterday I got a bit of quilting done, as I basted two quilts! and got one of them quilted. For this one — the expanded blocks with 1930′s fabric, I had been mulling over whether to add another border, but then decided against it.  I decided that what I [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Just added a new link to the Tutorials section on the sidebar, called Pieced Borders,  it is from Quilter’s Cache, by Marcia Hohn. I was just on the site looking for an idea for a border to add to the quilt pictured above, that I worked on in December. I [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Today I have no Friday Finishes, but it is a beautiful day here and the whole day stretches before me, beckoning with new adventures.   We plan to go downtown and take in a visit to the Owens-Thomas House museum.  (This is from a different house, but I was just [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Today I have been working hard as a fiber artist person!I spent a long (really Long) time crocheting this morning.  My goal was to use up enough red wool yarn so that the box where I store the reds would easily close.  So I started what I thought would [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Over the last couple of days I have been working on a knitted felted bag.  It is similar in style and size to the striped one I made last week. However, the yarn is more of a mix, and I tried a different style of handle: I think the handle [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond On Saturday, Laurel and I went to the Oatland Island Wildlife Center to the Fiber Guild’s workshop: Taste of Spinning with Sally Kroenke.  This is the room where they do their spinning and weaving These are the hand carders that you use to brush the wool roving to open [...]