Studio Life

Here it is in its taped corrugated glory – Surtex Booth #550!  There’s a lot of paint, and foam, and paper, and fire-code-sanctioned flame-proofing, and adorable baby robots, and argyle elephants, and jumpin’ monkeys, and you name it – it’s in there. Now to tackle the seasonal 6″ paper-flurry that has blanketed the studio…

Not long ago, I reopened Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt given to us by our friend Emily at this book shower in 2008.  The full-page full-color images are gorgeous and the writing is both a history of the place over several decades and a bit of art criticism – the good kind of academic in tone.  It wasn’t

As we’ve been getting to love to our amazing new Wacom Cintiq 21UX’s (which, for me, was not love-at-first-sight, but rather, a slowly-endearing romantic-comedy-style realize-the-ugly-girl-with-glasses-is-actually-your-soulmate-and-now-a-total-babe type of love), every now and then I’ll use Spoonflower’s fabric design of the week theme as a jumping-off place for learning to do more and more with our new equipment.  Here are the swatches

I LOVE surprises, and usually spend hours planning them.  But, this year the Easter Bunny inside of me had to yield to the limited hours in the day.  Who came up with that 24-hour idea? Packing for trade shows, sending out new designs and watching our very last lacrosse games of the last child at home took up all of

It was gorgeous on the first Sunday of April so we made it out again to the Alameda Antique Fair for the outdoor museum experience.  We got a bit of a late start and ended up in a warm car in a long line listening to the oldies station and finishing the last few bites of glistening glazed doughnuts.  I