Category Archives: quilting

Happy Birthday Vincent!

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Mary Beth Frezon

Yesterday was Naomi’s birthday and she reports that Nature’s gift to her was a new life list addition: a northern shrike. They look nice and song-birdy but they’re ruthlessly efficient. Interesting mix! Today is Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday. I had … Continue reading →

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“The Look”

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Mary Beth Frezon

Went to lunch, sat down and took my first bite. Not but a few feet away, there was a little crash as a young tall man lost his biggie drink and biggie fries to the forces of gravity and a … Continue reading →

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Rants and other stuff

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Mary Beth Frezon

If a rant blooms on a blog and nobody reads it… Well. It’s a good thing I don’t worry about viewer eyeballs. Meanwhile the debate rages on re art and use of digital imaging. It’s enough to send me to … Continue reading →

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All those words (high rant content)

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Mary Beth Frezon

What I really wanted to say was that a group of us has been rallied around the do-the-work flagpole for a long time – do more work, do your own work, do lots of work and do more of it and eventually, well eventually you’ll have a big pile of work if you keep it all. Otherwise you’ll have traveled down a road maybe trying out some stuff and developing some things you like doing. Maybe a few things you keep going back to. Maybe the long term arc of other ideas. Who knows what could happen. Continue reading →

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Technique? Art?

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Mary Beth Frezon

Kathy Loomis asks some big questions recently about craftsmanship and fabrication etc: But that leads me to a more important consideration – what’s with technique and craftsmanship anyway? Is it essential to great art these days? Is it acceptable but … Continue reading →

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