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Winning Vistas Between Portland and Bryce Canyon

March 23, 2015

There’s nothing like seeing the landscape of our beautiful country go by from the ground. I’m on the road with my husband and 10-year old son, traveling the Southwest by car.

Fence-Post

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Categories: Everyday Life, Travel Tagged: Bryce Canyon, eastern Oregon, road trip

What is Honey Mama’s?

March 16, 2015

One month ago, I did not know the answer to the question, and now I do, and I want to spread the word to everyone I know. Honey Mama’s Nectar Fudge is one of the most delicious treats I have tasted. A friend of my husband’s left a package of Honey Mama’s CocoNoNut Nectar Fudge in our fridge late one night with my name on it – so generous! I was not so generous when it came to sharing it with my husband (something he likes to remind me of every time I stock the fridge with new flavors I haven’t tried). I’m completely addicted.

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Categories: Everyday Life Tagged: gluten-free dessert, gluten-free fudge, gluten-free treat, honey mama's, madeinpdx, nectar foods

Herringbone Pattern Appreciation

March 3, 2015

Harris-tweed

The versatility of the classic herringbone motif is evident in the many different ways current designers and craftspeople have incorporated it in their work. Originally designed as a V-shaped weaving pattern, it has been reinterpreted across numerous forms.

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Categories: Pattern Inspiration Tagged: chevron pattern, herringbone motif, herringbone pattern

Most Recent Memorial Quilt

February 24, 2015

Over the past couple of months, I have had the pleasure of creating a set of two memorial quilts for a woman whose mother, Genevieve, passed away in 2013. Genevieve was known for her lively sense of humor and her dedication to nursing. Taking seven of Genevieve’s garments together with a solid ivory linen, I constructed the two quilts using my Eclipse quilt pattern.

The process began with deconstructing the garments.

Cut-shirts

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Categories: Behind-the-Scenes, Memorial Quilts Tagged: commemorative quilt, memorial quilt, quilt, reclaimed clothing

A Legacy of Art and the Old Country

February 9, 2015

Following the death of my 100 year old grandfather, I find myself, a few months later, helping my mother and my aunt packing up my grandparents’ house. A hundred years of stored memories, papers, photographs, furniture, and most of my grandmother’s life work as an artist. It has been an amazing process of unearthing a century of my legacy.

Among the items packed away in the basement was this beautiful zither and this leather-bound set of Goethe’s works in German.

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Categories: Everyday Life, Inspiration Tagged: art, bronze sculpture, clay sculpture, Eva Reichl, family life

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From Lori’s Notebook

  • Mark’s van der Rohe

    It’s not often that the clothing I receive for my memorial quilts so clearly reflects a person’s passion and life work.

  • Louisa’s Eclipse

    I believe many of us from a certain generation can relate to having held on to a box of our mother’s or grandmother’s table linens which we don’t have the heart to discard, nor do we want to bust out our irons every time we have a dinner party.

  • A Tartan for Tasmania

    After having successfully shipped my most recent quilt all the way to my client Sigrid in Tasmania, I can officially say that my work has made its way across the world.

  • Sat, Cit, Ananda: A New Day
  • Ed’s Cribbage Board Quilts

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