Good morning! Happy Passover to my Jewish friends, Happy Holy Week to my Christian friends, and Happy Spring to one and all! In my house, my younger son has a half day of remote learning today and then he is off for a week of Spring break. My older son is coming home from college tomorrow afternoon, and we are all going to attend a real, live, in-person worship service together for Easter Sunday, followed by Easter dinner with my mom. I'm so excited; it's like seeing the light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel ...
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Everything Old is New Again: EQ8 Design Inspiration From a Vintage Quilt
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Textile Archaeology: Exploring a Vintage Quilt Through Dissection and Repair
from Cheeky Cognoscenti
Yesterday morning, while drinking my latte, I read through a string of National Geographic articles about recently discovered hominid remains in the Rising Star cave system of South Africa. On my giant desktop monitor, I clicked through slide shows of exploration scientists cramming themselves and their equipment into narrow channels of rock as they gingerly worked to free fragile, ancient fossils that would shed new light on our understanding of early human history.
Client's Vintage Summer Quilt, Prior to Repair |
And then, I headed up to my studio, and began a delicate excavation of my own, the beginning of ... read more
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