by andrea | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog, Tutorials
I hate wasting fabric. It’s probably a function of my upbringing. The traditional way of making flying geese is pretty wasteful. And there is a better way. It’s well-known, but I wanted to provide my own tutorial anyway. Time-saving techniques such as...
by andrea | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog, Canada, Tutorials
Happy 150th Birthday, Canada! Everything around us has been branded Canada 150 for months: coffee mugs, jerseys, soap, even granola bars. And we have finally arrived at July 1 of this sesquicentennial year. I will be celebrating at the Canadian Museum of Immigration...
by andrea | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog, Quilts
Sometimes you come across a dream client: Someone who lets you explore as an artist, someone who wants you to succeed, someone who wants what’s best for them and what’s best for you. These people are hard to come by. This happened to me in early spring 2017, with the...
by andrea | Jun 14, 2017 | Blog, Canada, Pier 21
This is the third in a series of blog posts describing and documenting The Here & Elsewhere Bee, my project as the 2017 Artist-in-Residence at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. A list of posts related to the project can be found at the bottom of the...
by andrea | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog, Quilts
Euclid was a Greek mathematician and the “father of geometry” that lived in the 4th- to 3rd-century BC. Euclidean geometry is basic to our understanding of mathematics, including the Pythagorean Theorem. In the mid 20th-century, Alvin Lustig designed only twelve...
by andrea | May 29, 2017 | Blog, Canada, Pier 21
This is the second in a series of blog posts describing and documenting The Here & Elsewhere Bee, my project as the 2017 Artist-in-Residence at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. A list of the subsequent posts related to the project can be found at the...
