Betty Pillsbury & Green Spiral Herbs

 My quilt guild issued a color challenge this year. Make a block each month in the color revealed at the meeting.  Instead of just making, say, an orange block, I used the color wheel to work w...

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Looking for a unique Christmas gift? Give a one-hour, private, on-line crazy quilt/embroidery consultation from me! Using Face Time or FaceBook messenger video, I will provide advice and tutelage...

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On Saturday, I was at Beekman 1802 Mercantile in Sharon Springs.  I make several products for The Beekman Boys.  On this particular day, I was discussing and sharing Little Black Mask.  This i...

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I just finished embroidering (by hand) the center of my latest crazy quilt.  It was done with a single strand of silk floss (various manufacturers) and a #10 sharp needle.  I used a fine l...

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My crazy quilt, "Therapy" earned a red ribbon at the Vermont Quilt Festival over the weekend.  At VQF, quilts do not compete against each other; they compete against a set of criteria.  A r...

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Happy Yule! Here is a link to a video on how I put together my crazy quilt, "Therapy".  May your holidays be lovely.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG2AULs7T7Q"Therapy" video of my most recent cra...

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Sound the trumpets!  My book, "Crazy Quilts - A Beginner's Guide" has been published by Ohio University Press! I am so grateful.  It was a long time coming and I appreciate all my family...

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Have you ever added beads to a crazy quilt and realized you used a wrong color or something happened to the bead and you wanted to replace it?  On my latest project I was using acrylic pearls fo...

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I have become a contributor for Mother Earth Living's new web site, Herbal Living.  I'll be posting videos and posts about herbs - growing, using and enjoying.  The first video is about making ...

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Spring took its own sweet time in arriving this year.  Winter simply did not want to loosen its grip.  Finally, the spring peepers are singing their chorus, red-winged blackbirds have appeared ...

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Video of some of my work

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Yesterday I was judged into the Catskill Mountain Quilters' Hall of Fame!  I am delighted and honored.  Induction ceremony will be September 15. 

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 The challenge:  Riding mowing for 7 hours over the last two days in 90+ heat and humidity with one hand.  If you recall, I severed the tendon and cut into the bone on my right hand (dominant ...

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Last I posted was June 23.  Night of the Super Moon.  I was reveling in the aromatic roses that grow in my garden.  I as finally catching up on yard work that was hampered by all the flooding ...

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“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.” This is Egl...

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 For your amusement and enjoyment...I've created a few small stitcheries.  Using vintage and contemporary materials, I've created some adornments for your home.  The first measures 8" x 5" a...

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Finished~!!  I am quite impatient for spring to arrive here in the northern Catskill Mountains.  Still several inches of snow on the ground, it's 38 degrees and the winds are howling.  But, ...

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It is 7 degrees on this snow-covered, first full day of spring!  But, I am not despairing because a Hover of Dragonflies has appeared!  Okay, so I spent yesterday stitching them, but that's sti...

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Here's the February block for the CQJP 2013.  I chose the Scilla fairy fabric, although it is still very frozen here in the northern Catskills of NY state!  Scilla don't appear hear for anoth...

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I am participating in the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2013.  I started last year's CQJP, but only got the January, February and March accomplished.  I was working with the paisley shape.  ...

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 Yesterday, September 22, 2012, the Autumnal Equinox, saw the installation of the first Quilt Barn Block in Schoharie County, NY!!  And it is on my barn!  Ginny Schaum started the local edit...

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The amazing Ginny Schaum has started implementing a Quilt Barn Trail in Schoharie County, NY.  The Quilt Barn Trail is a national movement, started a few years ago, to paint quilt blocks onto...

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SOME OF THIS YEAR'S ROSE BOUNTY FROM MY GARDEN: DRIED ROSE PETALS, ROSE SYRUP, ROSE JELLY AND ROSE CONSERVE. (ROSE GLYCERINE, ROSE TINCTURE, ROSE HONEY AND OTHER GOODIES ARE ALSO IN THE MAKING.)...

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The center portion of my crazy quilt, "Crazy Diamonds".

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This is my award-winning crazy quilt, "Crazy Diamonds" in my garden.  That's an Apothecary Rose to the left.  Apothecary roses date back to at least the 14th century and are one of the vari...

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