My quilt is based on the elements of art. I pieced Improvisational blocks with skinny strips - when faced with an inability to get a sewing ...

My Element idea is a bit obscure yet quite meaningful in regard to my focus on simplifying my life in 2012.  Simplicity (like Elements) w...

I decided to do an "element" on the stove after being inspired by a workshop by Libby Lehman where she was using the circular att...

It was so interesting to read the other MM postings and discover that so many of us had almost immediately thought of the same ways to desc...

I thought of all the numerous meanings of the word, "element" and decided right away that I wanted to do something different and q...

What a famtastic theme, something to really get my teeth into. However I am sooooooo disapointed with my quilt. I was thinking along the sa...

I knew almost right away that my element would be earth. I have wanted to show, in a quilt,the topography of Mission Trails Regional Park...

Two things came to mind when I first thought of our new topic- design elements and chemical elements.  The scientific side of me kept ...

     In ancient thought, Fire, Earth, Water and Air and sometimes Spirit (something beyond the physical world) are the classical element...

Black & White With An Element of Silk With this theme I came up with many "working" ideas very quickly ( which was comforting ...

     As a retired science teacher, the only thing that came to mind was the Periodic Table of Elements when the word Element was posted.  I ...

The Four Basic Elements:  Air (Sky), Water, Fire, and Earth The ancient philosophers believed that the world and everything in it wa...

When the word "Element" first came to mind I was in an art gallery and I thought, "What are the elements in these pieces of a...

Four Material Mavens were able to meet at the Quilting Adventures seminar. Alice was supposed to be standing in the front of this line, but...

Chosen by Rita--MYSTERY!  Announcing early, to accommodate some who are attending a quilting workshop and might want to base their workshop ...

I also participated in our guild's 12 X 12 challenge along with fellow MM Andrea.  It was a great experience and so much fun I took t...

Material Maven member Nedra & I co-chaired a twelve month, 12 x 12 challenge for our small ( 50 member ) guild which ended last week ...

And don't they look impressive, all together like this?  Thanks to Diane Perin Hock who told me how to make a mosaic like this! Now ...

Okay, now I've fixed it so that we have a gadget list on the sidebar that shows all the labels, arranged in order of number of labels. ...

Judy commented about my use of labels at the end of my South theme posting tonight.  I'm addressing this subject here so hopefully every...