Hand Sewing Dilemma UPDATE

This is an update to a video posted regarding the cramping/locking of my left index finger while hand sewing hexies together.




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The Magic Quilt

In this short film, which mixes live action with cutout and embroidery animation, a group of children finds a magic quilt that is their passport to a voyage of discovery. They step inside the quilt and as they travel through its velvet farmlands and satin cities, they experience the multiculturalism of Canada. The quilt is torn and the magic broken when a quarrel breaks out. Once the quilt is repaired and harmony restored, the children have learned that patience and goodwill are needed to mend and maintain quilts, friendships, and nations.

The Magic Quilt by Bettina Maylone, National Film Board of Canada

Crazy Quilt

This film is part of a series of television programs including interviews with the directors of short animated films as well as the films themselves. This video includes 2 animated shorts: Quilt (by Gayle Thomas), an animated tribute to patchwork quilting and Scant Sanity (by John Weldon), an exploration into the nature of the mind and reality in which a person seeking job counseling receives psychiatric treatment instead, thereupon becoming convinced of the reality of his own internal world.

Crazy, Quilt by Donald McWilliams, National Film Board of Canada

Quilt

A tribute to the unique and long-established art form of patchwork quilting, this abstract animated film uses computer and experimental techniques to choreograph quilt motifs and designs to music.

Quilt by Gayle Thomas, National Film Board of Canada

Oma's Quilt

Oma's Quilt

This animated short tells the story of Oma, who is moving from her house on Maple Street where she lived most of her life to a senior's residence where she doesn't know anyone. Her granddaughter Emily, a young girl full of wide-eyed enthusiasm, senses that her grandmother isn't sure she will like her new home. Wishing to help, she comes up with an idea to ease the burden of this momentous change.

Oma's Quilt by Izabela Bzymek, National Film Board of Canada

Hexie Quilt

Here is one of the hexie projects that I am working on. It is a Hexie Quilt.

This is just the beginning. I have a very long way to go. I will post pics of my progress as it grows.

Try to imagine these three pictures as one long photo. That is the width of the quilt.

All I have to do to make it the right length is build UP ... and up, and up, and up.


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Grace Van Norman Correll Painting

Isn't this a beautiful painting?

A friend of mine picked this up from a garage sale for less than $5.00. She saw it and thought of me. It now rests against the wall on my ironing table.

What a great friend!

Grace Van Norman Correll

Birth Place: Peoria, Illinois
Death Place: Peoria, Illinois
Medium: Illustration, Mural, Painting - Oil
Subject: Animals, Landscape, Portraits
Exhibitions: Heart of Illinois Fair
Awards: Best in Show, Heart of Illinois Fair, three times
Collections: Bradley University
Training: Bradley University, Bachelors in Fine Arts, 1932
Related To/Associated With: Mother was painter Lulu Van Norman

Other Occupations: 
Illustrator, children's magazines
1940s, painted 60 murals for Fannie May stores throughout the country

Born in Peoria, Illinois, Grace Correll remained there where she became an illustrator, designer, muralist, and fine art painter. She did mural commissions for private homes and businesses including the Fannie May Candy Company. She was also a designer for Forster Textile Mills Inc. and was a part-time instructor at the Costume Institute of Bradley University.

GRACE VAN NORMAN CORRELL (American b.1912) "Winter Landscape" oil on board, signed lower right "G. Correll". 30"x24". Estimate $100-$200

More than 90 years of Fannie May – A success story

The first Fannie May retail store was opened by H. Teller Archibald in 1920 at 11 N. LaSalle St. in Chicago. By 1935, there were nearly four dozen retail stores in Illinois and several neighboring states. During World War II, while other companies chose to change their recipes when ingredients were scarce, Fannie May stuck with its exact recipes, making only what it could which often meant closing shops early because no more candy was available - never was the taste of the candy compromised.

Through the years Fannie May developed candies that went on to become favorites that were often the center of many family and holiday traditions. For instance, Fannie May Pixies® were first made in 1946 by hand-pouring caramel over nuts and then placing them on a conveyor belt to be drenched in chocolate. Today, that combination of caramel and crunchy pecans covered in chocolate is one of the company's best sellers. That same commitment to the quality of recipes continues today, with most of the same ingredients coming from the same suppliers for many years now. Quality has always been the driving force behind the making of Fannie May chocolates. We developed this by combining a delicious product, stimulating advertising, elegant packaging and selective distribution. Fannie May's standards of excellence include maintaining our product's high quality by requiring special handling during storage and display. Our growing popularity as a premium quality product is due to our innovative approaches in manufacturing, advertising and packaging. Fannie May stands by all its products and for over 90 years has provided high quality gourmet chocolates with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

In May of 2006 Fannie May joined the 1-800-Flowers.com family of brands. For more than 30 years, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Inc. – "Your Florist of Choice®" – has been providing customers around the world with the freshest flowers and finest selection of plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, confections and plush stuffed animals perfect for every occasion.

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