All my life, people have asked me if I’m an artist. I’ve always said, “No, I just make stuff.” It’s taken a while to get comfortable with the label, but I think I’m just about there.
I do like making stuff, though. I make quilts, mostly. I prefer to make art quilts, but I’ll make the odd bed or baby quilt if the situation calls for it. I’ve found that I’m making more tribute quilts lately. People bring me the clothing of a lost loved one and I create a lasting textile memorial for them to treasure and, perhaps, hand down to the next generation. Sometimes I get to make a celebratory quilt to mark a happy occasion like a birth or an anniversary. It’s always good to commemorate an event with a quilt.
I have been working with commercial fabric mostly, but that seems to be changing. I like to stamp and layer my own fabric to use as backgrounds and I like to incorporate silks where I can. I also like to work with texture and embellishments, using beads, old clock parts, and trinkets from the home center. I prefer to let the piece tell me what it needs and then I do my best to live up to its expectations.
Check out my work at www.MoonlightingQuilts.com.
Thanks for the visit.
Hi Cindy,
I haven’t seen you since our WMC days. I’m a heavy LinkedIn user and saw your name while browsing potential WMC contacts.
It’s nice to see that you’re doing well. You still look terrific.
There really isn’t any motivation for my post, just thought I’d say hello.
Take care,
Bryan
Cindy, I loved your blog abut GQHs. And I was tickled pink to see Eric’s response. You both are lucky! Best to you both.
Cindy, I do not kno whow to get a hold of you…I just ordered the suit packet but it has the wrong address for you to send it to me….
can you email me at fivesons4barb@hotmail.com
thanks
Just signed if for your blog. I stumbled across it while waiting on my 820 to arrive (did a Google search on 820’s and one of your pages came up). Looking forward to learning more of your art quilt journey, as I am on the journey too! Blessings!
Cindi: I came across your post about the Bernina 820 and the Aurifil thread and the problem with skipped stitches. I was not able to leave a comment on that post – but just wanted to say thanks because your post was the one that finally helped me fix my year long problem! I finally broke down and purchased the 44C foot, followed some of your other suggestions… and my Bernina 820 is sewing perfectly now. Thanks for sharing this info with the world!!
Hi Cindy,
I stumbled upon your website this afternoon while looking for a spare parts manual for my wife’s inherited Bernina Minimatic 707 machine. All I found was your January 6, 2010 post about the one your neighbour bought “in Africa”. Did she really speak Dutch, or was it Afrikaans? Not important I suppose, even though there is quite a big difference between the two languages.
About the machine: my wife remembers that her father bought it for her mother to replace her old Ideal “Zick Zack Spezial” (which my wife is still using, by the way!) over forty years ago, in order that she might make her eldest daughter’s wedding dress, the bridesmaids’ dresses and other clothing for other attendees. The old lady exited this mortal coil almost two years ago and as no-one else in the family had any use for them, my wife adopted both machines.
As is often the case, both had been over-oiled, but otherwise showed very little wear, despite having been used very extensively in the interim. My wife even used the Bernina to sew a fly sheet for the tent we used during a 15-month-long 3 000 kilometre (about 1,870 mile) walking tour back in 1979 and 1980.
The brushes of the Bernina’s motor were well and truly worn, so that the commutator is quite badly scarred, so we have bought a replacement. The cam gear was also cracked in two places, so we found a replacement and I am now in the process of putting the machine back together.
My wife’s eldest sister – the one for whom the wedding dress was made – and her husband own Orion Wool and Crafts in Cape Town, South Africa http://www.orionwool.co.za/, which is the reason for my interest in the paragraph about your neighbour’s Bernina 707. They certainly don’t make ’em like they used to do they?
Best wishes,
Keith Taylor (in Johannesburg, South Africa).
i registered for your workshop at Quilt Expo in Lakeland but was not able to attend. Subject was Tsukineko Inks. Is there anywhere i can find your material about this topic.
Carol Baker