In the Stash — santa
The First Small Gifts
Christmas Newfoundland santa Vintage Quilt
Over his arm, a quilt, every small shred of fabric holding a piece of this families story. It proved a simple affair, both front and back a jigsaw of larger squares of flour sacks and the like, along with many smaller oddly shaped pieces of fabric, all sewn together.
Schemes and Seams
applique christmas colour colour theory quilt story santa
My quilts are primarily pictorial, making it easy to pull some of the concepts associated with colour and composition into projects. What is universal though, is that no matter what we piece or patch together, colour is experienced with the eyes and the heart. What I want colour to say is as important to me as how I want it to be seen.
A Christmas Story Stitched with Kindness
applique christmas quilt story santa
At a northern dawn, a weary soul pulls a small tree, crooked and lacking a crown, towards a place he knows in the woods. Most would have chosen a more perfect specimen but nearly every tree here is sparsely branched and misshapen. As it stands in this woodsman’s eye, the little fir is as stately as the finest of pines. From a branch of the biggest tree around, a small blackened and flat bottomed kettle hangs with an enamelled mug, just where he had left them. Here he makes a small fire, fills the kettle at a nearby brook and...