New York: Duvet Cover for Brooklyn

This duvet cover was designed by Pema, and I finished it in time for putting it in our luggage from Bangkok to Seattle for the summer, and by post office from Seattle to Brooklyn.

Red Crumbs for the Bay Area

Andree, my niece and Maurice have done a beautiful job of renovating their residence, a Tudor house in Oakland, and thought this red crumbs quilts would remind them of the bits of wood, metal, concrete, etc. that they generated while fixing the house!

New York: Squares for Brooklyn

5 percent of the squares were "leftovers" from other projects, and the rest inspired by a quilt designed by Kaffe Fassett, an American who lives in the UK and known for his quilt and knitting work.

New York: Rooster for Brooklyn

This is the second rooster I have made, and re-lived as a wall hanging.

Kathmandu: Quilts at Smithsonian, Washington, DC

Metro Manila: One of the Multicolor Abstracts

Work in progress, being completed by the girls. The tops are all assembled by hand stitching.

Metro Manila: the girls at work on their blocks

 

Sewing boxes being prepared from used grocery cartons, fabric, buttons, and a lot of imagination.  One of the girls made two tiny teddy bears from felt scraps in lieu of two buttons to fasten the lid!  And a fastener-less bracelet, reincarnated as embellishment.

Imagine my surprise when I found two fat bags of fabric scraps ready for sorting, and lots of yardage purchased from Taytay, the textile center of Metro Manila.