by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2017
This fall, I have both kids away at college – my daughter, a freshman in her first dorm at UCLA, and my son, in his first house as a junior at University of Puget Sound. Both will have new quilts for their rooms!
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 | 2016
Top is done! So excited to finish this for a special young couple who recently tied the knot. Would you believe – I had all this fabric on hand in my stash? Love that black and white!
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
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
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
It’s been awhile since my last post – not that I haven’t been quilting and sewing! This is a gift I made for a colleague who really went above and beyond on a recent event for a program within the nonprofit we work for. The program acronym is YES...
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...
