Homemade Lemon Cake

2026 is the Block of the Month year for me, and while the other 3 I am invovled with I have slipped behind in, this one has been easier to ...

The Tamayo Museum (Museo Tamayo) was founded by Ruffino Tamayo in 1981, when the Mexican artist donated his own works, in addition to a mas...

This is such a gorgeous musem. It is among the biggest museums of its kind in Latin America, witn an extraordinary collection focuses on t...

The Gelman Art Collection is take your breath away amazing to behold. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good. More on this museum la...

The Frieda Kahlo Museum is the blue house where she was born, died, and spent most of her life within these walls. It is a gorgeous space ...

My quilt guild hosted this quilter last month and I have been thinking about her work ever since. On the 4th of July she announced her new ...

I just heard Lorraine Woodruff-Long speak about this project, which has been completed and is a quilt that is going on tour. Quilters hav...

Wow, wow, wow. This book and this artist are both equal parts amazing! Yumiko Higuchi is a world-acclaimed Japanese embroidery artist reno...

I very much enjoyed this talk by a Canadian quilter who spoke to the Sew Squad that is hosted by the incompable Libs Elliot. She talked abo...

What an amazing quilter, and I recently heard her speak about her process for design. Libs Elliott is a quilt artist renowned for blending ...

Kaffe Fassett (born 1937) is a world-renowned American-born artist and textile designer based in England, celebrated for his pioneering wo...

Ok, the writing in this is maybe not five star material, but it is very good, and the book goes about descibing in pictures and in words th...

Johanna Masko talked to our guild about how to think about, design, and operationalize gradients in our quilting. Use of gradation is a pro...

I am a bottomless pit when it comes to watching lectures on quilting in general and modern quilting specifically. This speaker is a freque...

My quilt guild had a spring retreat that happened two weeks after I had should replacement surgery on my dominant arm. I did not sign up fo...

I watched a lecture given by this artist, who trained as a gemologist, and who has translated that into quilt blocks for all 12 of the birt...

I have an I am in the midst of a big house organization project and discovered this book amongst other things in a box and realized that w...

This artist presented her case for upping your documentation game to my quilt guild, and she made a great case for both why you should do i...

Chloé Zhao is a master at translating a book into a movie. I was very impressed with her adaptation of Nomadland and this is even more impr...

This documentary has a song that was nominated for Best Song in the 2026 Academy Awards--which it did not win, but I liked the song far mor...