Venti?

I know that you have come to think of me as a sophisticated man-about-town.  In fact, you'd be right. I'm totally hip and groovy.  No one is more with it than I.

What can I say, chicks dig me.  Why wouldn't they?

Remembering Les

I know that I've come back to college football time and time again on this blog.  There's a part of me that wants to apologize for that because a quilting blog wouldn't seem a very natural fit for college football.  On the other hand, this is a blog about me as well as my quilts, so, in that sense, it seems fitting.

This past Sunday, following a heartbreaking loss to Auburn, LSU decided to fire Head Coach Les Miles.

Honey's Maze: Part I

The Maze

Top Half of "Honey's Maze" Pattern

For the past month or so, I've been working on a quilt that I dreamt up about a year ago when I was doodling on some isometric paper.  (Look here for printable isometric paper: Printable Paper or CustomGraph.)

As I mentioned in The Dream, I like to doodle to come up with designs.  I have a lot of drawings that aren't very good, but that's ok because, every once in a while, something just comes to life on the paper.  I never start a doodle thinking that I have to produce a home run.  Rather, I start a doodle thinking, "I wonder what it would look like if I did this."

Hanging Columns

Sometimes it looks awful.  Sometimes not.  For me, it's all part of the process.

So, last year, I chanced upon a design that looked fun to me.  I'm really not sure what to call it, but I've chosen to call it a maze.  It's not really a maze, but it does kind of look like one, so there ya go.

The Wedding Planner

Engagement Ring

As I mentioned somewhere on this blog, I became engaged this past May.  We didn't really have a date in mind, but we knew that the Spring or Fall of 2017 was what we were shooting for.  Now, it looks like April, 2017 is the time.

It's nice to have it narrowed down to a month.  There is a specific date in April; I just can't remember it.  I'm a guy; details aren't my forte.  What can I say?

Bet I'll be there, though.

The Dream

I want to share the delights and the process of designing a quilt.

I don't want to talk about the technical ways to design because there are many different technical ways to design a quilt.

Rather, I want to talk about the spiritual and philosophical aspects of design.

It's a funny thing to write about something that seems so organic to me.  It's sort of like explaining how I breath or eat.

The Week in Review

There's no one thing that has struck my fancy to write about this week, but there's lots of things happening, so I thought I'd just recap the week.

Speaking Our Minds

For decades I have heard parents of college age children complain about the dangers of the university environment.  Largely, they are right about the ideological leaning of campuses around the country and the danger that the campus culture poses to unprepared students.

Just when I thought that the craziness could not become crazier, the idea of "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" burst onto the scene.  A safe space?  When I was growing up, a safe space theoretically protected one from nuclear holocaust, but, to these weak-minded wimps, it protects them from getting their feelings hurt.  Good Lord in heaven above, we have raised a country full of spoiled-brat whiners.

Heaven help us.

But, into the darkness comes John (Jay) Ellison, Ph.D., Dean of Students at the University of Chicago.