Tag Archive: flying geese

The Sea Stack Quilt

Two cairns of nautical colors are the focus of this baby quilt… but can I be honest for a hot second about those cairns? They were supposed to be clean-cut geese flocking in… Continue reading

Fall Migration

New quilt in the works! It’s a fall migration of fabric scraps inspired by Suzy Quilts’ Fly Away pattern. I’ve been winding in leftover fabrics from the recent starburst quilt, last year’s log-cabin beauty,… Continue reading

Flying Geese Flashback

Without further ado, here are some pics of that Flying Geese quilt I completed in April this year.   //

Quilting in Queens

Gift Fox is now quilting in Queens! While the new apartment in Astoria is a bit tight, it’s not entirely un-quilt-friendly. Without the amazing counterspace of my Dover, NH apartment, and without the high-ceiling,… Continue reading

A Wabi-Sabi World

No pictures can do justice to just how hard and  heavy the snow is falling right now in Kittery, Maine. Looking out over the now blanketed stream, the trees have shouldered their wooliest… Continue reading

Fabric Bin Logic

Fabric bins. Or tupperwares, boxes. Or for the luckiest, entire rooms with shelves. In my case, overflowing drawers of fabric in the top half of a folk art dresser. By December, I have… Continue reading

Jess “Gift Fox” Math

Def. of Jess math –  Incorrect (yet endearing!) mathematical answers to seemingly simple math problems I am in the thick of cutting & piecing my wild geese quilt, which means there is a… Continue reading

Take Flight, November

Sun’s gone. A black-necked goose swallowed it and went south while I slept. All right. That is the way things are. (excerpt from “Not One Bird In This” by Mekeel McBride) Sunday morning. At… Continue reading

Wild Geese

A new quilt is born! Well, almost. Really I’ve got fraternal twin quilts gestating right now. One is a queen-size, flying geese quilt for my comrade-in-arms, Ashley “Down Cellar” Benson and her terrific… Continue reading