I did it — I finished Eamon’s (pretty small) quilt in time for the baptism. Not that he needed it for that, but just, it’s a deadline. The deadline figures pretty significantly in the slow crafter’s ability to get anything done. Lately I’ve had terminal indecision issues, so it’s really a miracle at all that… Read More »
Baby, quilt(s), birthday dinner, chatty
I tried to be restrained here with baby pictures. Doing my best. I am the internet equivalent of that grandma who whips out the accordion photo keeper for all comers. Thursday was Deirdre’s birthday, and the input she gave me was “shrimp… angel hair pasta… asparagus… lemon… creamy… ” I did my best. The asparagus in… Read More »
Quilting, thinking about the Liturgical Year.
{A series of posts about The Little Oratory, a book I have written with David Clayton, illustrated with icons by him and with drawings by Deirdre. Read about the Introduction and how to use the book; Chapter One; Chapters Two and Three.} I’m trying to get a little faster in my quilting! The babies are outstripping me.… Read More »
What Scott Hahn said about The Little Oratory… {modest blush}
Yesterday I mentioned a particular line in the Faure piece that was sung at Nick and Natasha’s wedding. O Christ, be kind to your faithful ones/now gathered to bless you. I said that I put it on the quilt to say something like, “We heard this in Church, and now you are starting… Read More »
A seriously late wedding quilt.
Now you will be inflicted with a lot of pictures of this quilt — this late, late quilt. But — I made it in under the five-year mark, so go me! Do you know the Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Faure? Rosie, Sukie, and Deirdre sang this as the communion anthem… Read More »