by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
As a young college grad, I traveled around Europe with two girlfriends and we made the trek to West Berlin. The Cold War was still in in full throttle and the Berlin Wall divided the city. I remember our Berlin visit vividly: climbing the perches alongside the Wall...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
I finished this a while ago but only recently got around to photographing it. I’m not sure what I want to title it yet. It features my fascination of creating blocks from random tiny scraps leftover from other projects . It’s one of my favorite things...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
After QuiltCon 2016 in Pasadena, several of us from the San Francisco Francisco Quilt Guild (who also meet on the sidelines as the San Francisco Bee Modern quilt group) were inspired by some of the quilts that addressed social issues. We have formed our own group...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
At QuiltCon I took Jeni Baker’s Equilateral Triangle class and started this quilt made from (mostly) Carol Freidlander fabrics and some of my other graphic fabric favorites. I like learning new techniques to make projects quickly and this was definitely one that...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
I’m not really sure where I’m going with this. I’ve been saving solid neutral pieces for a while and wanted to use them in some way with various bigger scraps. I like how it’s looking though! My daughter thinks it looks like the movie Inside...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
Sometimes I just get a hankering to pull out my itsy bitsy scrap pieces and see what I can do with them. This is what got started from my yellow bin. I then went on to pull out more. Each colored piece is about 4 1/2 inches across and the strips prior to sewing are...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
How I love a long weekend! I had a wonderful, restful and reflective time with my family and alone as well. And part of that time involved finishing two quilt tops I’ve been planning for a long time. This one uses 36 different “made fabric” blocks...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2016
Well, ALMOST the first. Still have to bind and wash, but I just finished this very dense quilting. I needed to start the year with a project that I really wanted to look at – both as a project to work on and something I wanted to keep (for me!) in our home....
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2015
On it’s way to to North Carolina, something special for a special sister-in-law. I hope she’ll cuddle in it through the winter, and know that she has so much love from all those she touches. I quilted in all her special names, just to remind her! I...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2015
My kids and I enjoyed the “I Spy” baby books when they were little. I recall many hours of looking for items in the books, seeing if we could find all the hidden images. It was long before I began quilting (who had the time with little ones and work!),...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2015
I have a personal goal to make a quilt for any friend who has a baby 😀 or has surgery☹️. Sadly, for my sick friends and family, I’ve had a hard time keeping up with my goal. But I’m glad to have this quilt solidly underway for a good friend whom I hope...
