Pamela Thiele Art Quilts http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com Art Quilts by Pamela Thiele Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:14:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en yes, no, maybe, no, yes I almost always choose the crazier or stranger or wilder of two options when I make my quilt designing decision. This is also how I play Chinese checkers and is probably why I lose all the time.

But today I…

]]> http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/yes-no-maybe-no/ back to the designing wall I had been postponing cutting up five ab fab fabrics from the same line I recently got for no real reason at all. The old “I want to do it right” excuse. Come on! Just cut it up! How bad…

]]> http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/back-to-the-designing-wall/ Church Ladies So last Sunday I was minding my own business, standing next to the food table during Fellowship, when a woman who considers herself to be very important, let’s call her Sally, came dashing up to me. Since she has never…

]]> http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/observations/church-ladies/ A little nap Sometimes a girl just needs to get a little beauty sleep. This is Button, exhausted by her play with Fuzzy Green Bear. And by trying to help me work on my quilts. FGB was pretty tired too, truth be told.

]]> http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/dogs/a-little-nap/ BEING SAFE Somehow, despite years of refusing to go to church and managing to avoid it like the plague, I find I am a weekly regular fixture at a Methodist church here in Denver. And when I occasionally think about taking a…

]]> http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/i-have-been-co-opted/ HAPPY DOG Just a few snaps of Luka playing the world’s best game, BRONCO BALL.


]]> http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/dogs/happy-dog/ Denver National 2011 Today my quilt came back from this year’s Denver National Quilt Show. I had entered only one quilt this year, so I was relieved when it was accepted. “There is more day to dawn.”

It is always such a thrill…

]]> http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/denver-national-2011-2/ didn’t work So all the messing around with the quilt I discussed in my previous blog, didn’t work. I have gone back to most of the fabrics I originally had in the quilt, although I have eliminated the bright yellow one with…

]]> http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/didnt-work/ Maybe…maybe not I am having so much trouble with this quilt top. This is about the fifth time I have redone it–adding squares from fabric I bought Tuesday. At the left is one of the previous attempts. At the right, the latest.…

]]> http://www.pamelathieleartquilts.com/projects/704/ One Cutting, Five Quilts A couple of months ago, I needed to make a new quilt. I mean, I NEEDED to be handling fabric and cutting fabric and absorbing fabric. I decided to make a variation of Moon Over the Mountains. I made a…

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