by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2017
One of my first quilting attempts about 5 years ago from a photo much older than that. The picture is of my kids (the two little ones) with my brother’s boys on a family trip to Lake Tahoe. I loved creating the shapes of their little bodies, clothing and hair....
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2017
Posting some things I made a while back in 2012 as gifts for family and friends. Everyone loves a portrait of their...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2017
Still working on this one – I’m hand quilting it (my first attempt at hand vs machine quilting.) I used scrap slivers from another project. When it came together it reminded me of the NASA photos of space, hence the name.
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2017
Wow – four months since my last blog post! It’s been a busy time, new job with long hours, college apps and decisions for my youngest, weekends of protest marches and letter writing…and not as much quilting or creative activity as I usually have...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2017
I made this giant top about two years ago. The colored blocks are made from the leftover squares I’d cut to create a pixel quilt (from a photo of my daughter, Adrienne, dancing on the beach at sunset – below). The small blocks are variations on 9-patch and...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
A group within our Bee Modern San Francisco quilt group are exploring the creation of social issue quilts. Not knowing where to begin for our first attempt, we agreed to use “women” as a first theme for us each to explore. The only parameter was to make it...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
This is from my wall of green scrappy “made fabric” from a few months ago. This was the ongoing -and apparently unending- task of trying to use up all my scraps for a useful purpose. I got pretty far on using a large portion of green tiny bits and...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
Inspired by the tiny log cabin strip piecing of Completely Cauchy, I woke up a few weeks ago to start on this. While not the beautiful silk fabrics she uses, I challenged myself to make this from the vast cache of old denim I have on hand. Each of the strips in...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
I just came back from a whirlwind business trip waltzing across Texas. It involved driving over 600 miles from Dallas, Austin, San Antonio to Houston in just 5 days. Having grown up in Houston and being a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, I always love...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
My first tutorial — check it out! Hillary Logo Block Tutorial. Make your own!
