Boom! Success.

If I don't get the blue and red morning star cushion done tonight for Harry, I'll give him this sweet 12x16 feather pillow I made last week. I really love this one. Not really a good cushion but still sweet pillow. I've been carrying Ze's around for days. Thanks to Anna Marie Horner for the feather design idea from her feather quilt pattern. I love making them.

Boom! The center points are much better! It really pays to take the time to cut and pin the best you can. I kept this one 16x16. Not perfect but already way better and only my second one!

Blessed Holy Week folks. Peace.

Uncle Harry's pillow

Well here's Harry's pillow that I finished today. Finally got the kids down and had a few hours to catch up for myself. Spent the evening leaning about blogging... and doing dishes... and reading Ninjago.

I didn't have a pattern for this pillow so I just logically reduced from the two larger Lonestars that I have made. They were cut at 2 3/4" and there were 11 colors. This one I cut at 1 1/2" and there are five colors.

What you can't see is that my points suck. Well only in the center. I'm going to try to pull together a another star before we leave for Oklahoma. Even if I don't finish the pillow I'm just determined to figure out how to get points on all my stars. I wish they had a class on it at the Española Fiber Arts Center, which is an amazing resource for all things textile. I think I'll request it.

Off to read and doze.

Welcome to my sewing room

Well. This is it. I am officially blogging. Welcome to my little world in Northern New Mexico. I decided to start with a few pics of my beloved sewing room.

My sweet new machine

Diamond's daily naptime on the ironing board

After so many things knocking me back the past few years, I decided to take some time for me this year. I am off-call for the first time in years. I work only ten hours a week now so that I can spend time everyday in my sewing room. I am so happy here. No one can hurt me here. And I am always right. It's so sweet after so many years of fighting the good fight everyday, I am so blessed to be a 100% mom more often and enjoy my family and our home. I feel like I am putting myself back together right now just like patchwork and I feel like if I just sit here and keep sewing fabric pieces together that everything is going to be alright. Yup. It's my therapy.

I am a woman of color, a midwife, and a mother of four. I am an Executive Director and a Graduate student. I am a beader, knitter, and singer, a dancer and a quilter. I am a 19-year survivor of childhood sexual trauma and incest and an inter-generational survivor of cultural genocide. My cultural identity is important to me and central to who I am as a lover of the Earth. I have walked across the country, traveled on a circus bus playing a tap-dancing bird, recorded a CD, and started a doula program. I have given birth at home four times and first-held hundreds of wet babies in my humble hands. I am a proud Filipina-American. I am a proud queer. I am also a proud wife to a beautiful man named Mateo. 

I am excited that I finally got this started and I look forward to being able to be part of the great blog community of creative folks out here. I hope some of you follow along on my blog about my Quilting and healing journey.
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Wow. A whole new world for me. Let's see where this goes...