bits and bobbins

when we woke up yesterday, poppy asked to go “walk in the city”. so, despite the frigid temps in NYC (hovering around freezing), we obliged. of course! because it’s something all three of us absolutely love to do, as often as we can…

we went to the folk art museum to see the quilt exhibit (not recommended, it was kind of weak, imo), and after that, went to the moma for several hours, which was really great. we all had a lot of fun. so much inspiration to be had there, and i love seeing all the familiar big works by all the big names, makes me feel that my art history degree was worth something. btw, there’s a particularly interesting modern kitchen design exhibition on right now…

afterwards we went to cafe katja in the LES with good friends. drank slightly too much spaten optimator, but now it’s a new day, and all is well.

been spending the last several days (read: the weekend to now) making pinwheel patchwork blocks, using some beige twill i thrifted ages ago (so long ago i can’t remember when or where i found it), and scraps of silks, cottons, cords and blends. found the instructions for this block in a great patchwork-making book i snagged at purl at some point last year, 501 rotary-cut quilt blocks by judy hopkins.

each block is about 12.5 inches square, and i’ve got about 16 of them, so i’m probably going to gather them up together and make some kind of 4 x 4 foot square wall-hanging thing. never mind that i have no more free wall space on which to hang such a hanging…

i’ve found myself wanting to do a lot of quilting of late, or patchwork, really. wanting to play with fabric, color, design using patchwork as my medium. but not always wanting to go to the trouble of making a bed-sized behemoth. so i’m only committing myself to small-ish wall-hangings (like this one), and i’m having a lot of fun…

a peek into poppy’s world.

favorite things (at the moment): robots, drawing, grapes, “street” (aka sesame street).

in most ways, the most typical of two year olds. on most days, the light of our lives.