http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com Art Quilts by Pamela Thiele Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:09:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For years a former friend of mine tried to get me to donate a quilt to a group she was active in. She wanted to use my donated quilt as a fundraiser. I always refused. Sometimes I wonder if that’s why we’re no longer friends. My thinking was this: my quilts ... http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/how-would-you-like-to-donate-a-quilt-not/ I finished piecing the top of my big fat shoo fly quilt. As yet unnamed. I had a lot of fun with this quilt…the colors just make me smile and I used a variety of big prints—overwhelming florals, silhouetted florals, a vintage handkerchief, and some super bright dots. The  shoo fly ... http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/shoo-fly-top-finished/ My grandmother could not wait to belong to her friends’ Widow Club. She sighed and moaned about not being able to be a member, which drove my mom nuts. Mostly, I imagine, because Mom loved her father and didn’t wish him dead. Grandmother, on the other hand, saw him as ... http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/the-widow-iliff-and-the-widow-sage/ This Monday it dawned on me that I had to start pulling my look together because Friday is the opening of the museum exhibit my quilt “The Cabbages Practice Their Do-Sa-Do” is in. YIPES! So I arranged to get my haircut Tuesday. We all know this was a BAD idea. No ... http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/the-haircut/ A very large white curly haired dog is looking at me right now with equal measures of hope and resignation. She feels I would be a lot happier if I were playing what in our house is called Bronco Ball. Since her favorite ball is orange and blue and is ... http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/bb-anonymous/ I've been doodling with some fabric while I work on finishing the three quilt tops I need to quilt and the one mystery top I am working on in top secret with the curtains drawn. So of course I have made a little top while I was thinking about doing ... http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/eeny-meeny/ Okay, maybe this is a stretch. Still, The Boss’s death gave me a moment to reminisce. It’s just about three years since we left New York for Colorado. And I love it here. And I keep insisting there’s nothing I miss about back East. But is that true? Reading through all ... http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/george-steinbrenner-and-quilting/ I used to think I knew a lot because I had traveled a lot in the eastern US and Europe. Even made it to Australia.And I thought I was pretty fearless when it came to going to see those sights that sounded interesting. Somehow however a certain fear of heights has ... http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/travel-is-broadening/ A few years back, I inherited a small amount of money and used some of it to buy a new sewing machine, a Bernina 440 especially for quilters. I love the machine; don’t get me wrong. It makes me smile. It was the first model with a quilting stitch regulator ... http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/just-one-little-thing/ I finished my circle quilt top today. Whew! I still actually like it. Sometimes I get this far and decide I don't like the quilt or there's something fatally wrong with it or I was totally off base with my thinking. But not this quilt. Lovely when that happens. I intend ... http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/uncategorized/done-and-done/