Russ has been lying on the couch coughing and channel surfing today. My desk is not far away, and I can tell that Christmas Day offers very little choice. He stumbled on a Spelling Bee just when the word “passacaglia” was presented and we both laughed. He connected to a satellite circling the earth at exactly the right moment. The long-the-other-way traffic light near our house is always green for Russ too. He has a gift. He is a gift.
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You could win a fabulous prize of fabric! In celebration of Tilde’s fantastic Passacaglia Table Runner Pattern (free, see previous entry), and in celebration of Christmas and the New Year, Tilde and I are collaborating on a Give Away. (Monkey calls it a Give-A-Way, not a Give Away, because Inklingo is a simpler new way to quilt.)
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Passacaglia is a musical form dating back to the early 1600s. Lucy Boston, the renowned English patchwork artist, interpreted the style in fabric as a gift for the talented friend who played her favorite Passacaglia on the harpsichord in her ancient manor house near Cambridge.
Tilde Binger, a dear freind (friend) and Inklingoist, took one look at the Passacaglia Patchwork in Diana Boston’s book and knew she had to make one!
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Posted in Lucy Boston on Nov 18th, 2009
The dozens of Patchwork of the Crosses (POTC) blocks in the photo albums of the Inklingo Yahoo group have prompted some discussion about Lucy Boston’s wonderful Green Knowe books.
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Posted in Inklingo KISS, Lucy Boston on Sep 6th, 2009
I fussy cut four of the sixteen octagons—à la Lucy Boston—with Inklingo KISS 103, and stitched this one on the porch. An Inklingo KISS (Keep it Simple, Stitchers) was just what I needed on a quiet Saturday afternoon—needle & thread, pretty little scissors, and some fabric in my lap—keep it simple pleasures. It was a nice break from all of the machine piecing I have done with Inklingo this summer.
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