Author: Terry Simon

To touch or not to touch…. That is the question! Well, the easy one is at the quilt show and the answer is NOOOO, don’t touch or else. Or else what, you ask. If you are lucky, you will only get the evil eye from the nice white-gloved lady watching over the quilts. If luck…

I’ve spent some time recently thinking about the fabric selection process and the different approaches to it. First, there is the TV dinner method. You see one of those cute little kits that has the pattern and preselected fabrics. All you have to do is put it together. It is pretty much a mindless process.…

Of cats and quilters. Let us call the cats R (Reggie), A1 (Allie) and A2 (Apollo). It’s morning. We wake up. We shower and get dressed, at least the quilters do. We have breakfast, cats first, of course. Only then can we start the day. First item of business, some hand work to attach the…

What do you see when you see a quilt? I see many things. First, there is the obvious, the fabrics used. Maybe they are unused fabrics, bought off a bolt or flat fold, something that caught the eye of the quilter in a shop somewhere. Maybe it is unused but it has been around awhile…

Politics. I just can’t seem to get away from them and I am truly fed up! So, this morning, sitting in my shower where I do my best thinking, I started cogitating quilting politics. There just have to be some. The rest of life is about them. So, let’s call the traditional quilters ‘conservatives’. That…