Author: Judy Coates Perez

  • Craft fair bummer

    Unfortunately we had a terrible rainstorm the night of the craft fair and no one came. All the kids had worked so hard, their table displays looked great. There were some sales made none the less, so the kids weren’t too unhappy. Here is Ty’s origami raindeer and more of Nina’s monsters.

  • Homeschool Teen Craft Fair

    Homeschool Teen Craft Fair

    This week I have been helping my kids do the last minute preparations for the teen craft fair this friday. They have been in high production mode and want to make some cash! Ty is selling Origami ornaments. Primarily these sonobe modules and also oragami raindeer. Indigo has created a line of stuffed monster dolls…

  • Off to Houston friday

    I’m going to the International Quilt Festival for the weekend. To see the show but mostly to hang out with my textile art group gal pals from Texas. I am so proud of Kathy York from Austin who won first place large art with her wonderful quilt Little Cities.

  • All Hallows Eve • Dia De Los Muertos

    Today is The Celtic New Year, the day when the veil between the spirit world and our world is thin enough to allow visitation by our departed loved ones. My altar is set for my dear friend Onnolee who passed this spring with a few of her personal items that I am blessed to have…

  • an experiment

    an experiment

    I am going to start a new quilt soon. While I am working out the design I have been trying to figure out what techniques to use to make it. I want a dark probably black background on this next quilt,so I debated if I should paint the background or dye it or paint on…

  • Yippee, Woo Hoo!!!!!!

    Yippee, Woo Hoo!!!!!!

    Oh my god, I totally forgot to look at the website for Pacific International Quilt Festival today. A friend just emailed me to tell me congratulations for winning FIRST PLACE Innovative for Primordial Sea!

  • Virtual Quilt

    Virtual Quilt

    I have combined my cellular quiltlets into a virtual quilt to be in Artella Magazine issue 10 BODY OF ART: Passion and Projects of Universal Creation. This issues theme is about the Body, tying in with themes of Soul, Creation, and Creativity. My artwork is going to be paired with a poem by Nita Penfold…

  • Progress

    Progress

    This is the quilting so far. Not terribly exciting, but I thought the lines running linear with the leaves would help give clarity to the agave image defining the shapes of the leaves.

  • New Sweater

    I have started a new sweater. This time it is a hoodie from Patons made in Knitpicks Merino Style wool. It is nice and soft. I was not so thrilled with the cable design used in the pattern so i have decided to try my own. This has been a lot of trial and error.…

  • Want to knit gorgeous socks?

    Then you must go to Emily Parson’s Etsy shop to buy her hand dyed sock yarn. Who can resist yarn like this?

  • Abby’s new fall sweater

    Fall is coming fast in Chicago and I thought Abby should have a new turtle neck cable sweater. She is a stylish city dog after all.The basic dog sweater pattern can be found here. This is a great pattern to create a sweater in any size to fit your dog and it is simple to…

  • What I Did On My Summer Vacation

    I knit my first cable sweater. This is Patons “Must have Cardigan” in Knitpicks Shine Worsted cotton.When I was at my mother in laws house I laid it out on her lovely patio to block. It dried in minutes in that hot Los Angeles sun.Attracting a baby lizard.It’s really soft.

  • Fauna rejected from IQA after all

    Fauna rejected from IQA after all

    I got the news from IQA that they think the wires on the cactus are too sharp and they can not accept it into the show. So it looks like IQA is truly a quilt show in the end even though there seems to be a greater and greater emphasis on art quilts, the quilts…

  • Home from California…finally

    I could have flown to Australia in the time it took me to get home from Los Angeles. I booked the shortest flight I could find considering I would be traveling with 3 kids and a small dog (carry on). I had a non-stop flight on United, 4 hours total. We got to the airport…

  • Scenes from Northern California

    Bodega Bay Tide pool creatures Fruit trees on a friends property in Sonoma County Lichen only grows where the air is clean. Boating with friends on Folsom Lake Cactus fruit

  • Off to California

    Well I leave wednesday morning for 3 weeks in northern and southern California. There may not be any posts for a while.

  • Agave Quilt

    Agave Quilt

    Here’s the final background for the agave (pre-fusing). It is now all fused together and ready to layer it with batting and backing. Unfortunately I am leaving for California in a couple days and will be gone for three weeks. I am anxious to get my sewing table put back together so I can quilt…

  • Woo Hoo!

    Woo Hoo!

    There’s a Place Called Mars won second place in Innovative quilts at the World Quilt show- New England. U.S. Winners & International Entries will tour to: Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza and Pacific International Quilt Festival with a grand finale exhibition at Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition Schaumburg, Illinois November 9-12, 2006 This little Martian lady is…