Pieces and Resistance

Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, seems small before you enter it. I always like to use people to delineate sca...

Spent an evening (between rain storms) picking the just emerging crop of blueberries. This is the row they pointed to for us to start. Goo...

My friend Kathy enlightened me on sewing an inset corner. With practice I might just get it. I've drawn the seam lines, cut away leavi...

A bit of a zig-zag seam had me pulling out the freezer paper to make a template to get the shapes just right. Since I had the pieces decid...

I took the day off, like I do every day, but went and helped at my group's plant sale. Yes, I did return with lovely things, and tomor...

Boscobel, the early 19th century home overlooking the Hudson river, encourages art from this 21st century. Wish I knew the artist of this ...

Another museum visit, this one to the Museum of Art and Design in NYC. Glass layered over and over for a brilliant effect in a room scre...

Seen at the American Folk Art Museum last week, this center medallion quilt features a printed square by John Hewson.  Hewson, a calico pr...

Can't help but admire the folk who kept the name's curious spelling. Part of the Bronx, Spuyten Duyvil was a stop on my train to N...

Carl Klewicke, who lived from 1835-1913 in Corning, New York, finished this pieced silk quilt for his adopted daughter around 1907. It to...

By the numbers: 5 days, 1074 car miles, 3 states, 2 trains, 7 museums, and 6 historic sites, the last one (Philip Johnson's Glass Hous...