Banquet Journal

milk maids and grace kelly

Carine Roitfeld and I are once again on the same wavelength. I thought I was the only one channeling milk maid meets Normandy nun meets Grace Kelly for autumn. I love the silhouettes, and that l...

more thoughts on quilts

If I had the patience, I'd love to make this one into a quilt... From an old Australian Vogue Living. Off to Savary for two whole weeks - I'll be back, browner, fatter, inspired (yes please!)

mina perhonen

I always get a boost looking at the prints from Mina Perhonen. Because I am me, I also adore the fact that they are located by a doughnut plant.

schiaparelli

More from the World of Interiors - this, an old Schiaparelli print. Fantastic circus animals and really lovely rabbits! Working on a design job right now, but hoping to get back into things next w...

swatches

I've been going through some old magazines, trying to cull an unwieldy collection that threatens to overtake us. Some things I'd forgotten all about, and others look brand new. I love this haphaza...

more thoughts on quilts...

Love these old concrete builders. Yes, that's snow on the ground. So much for gloating about our early West Coast spring. Another quilter I admire is Ian Hundley.

quilting

My quilt obsession is growing. I bought the brilliant Quilt's of Gee's Bend for myself recently, and it's doing nothing to still my itchy fingers. Like these two, by Annie E. Pettway and Annie Be...

roses

Thrifted silk. I love the potential of a scrap of new fabric - filled with possibilities. Time to pull out the pfaff.