Actor Harvey Fierstein HD Instagram Photos and Wallpapers March 2024

Forty years is a long time to be friends. I first met Chita when our beloved Ted Hook brought her to my dressing room following the first performance of TORCH SONG TRILOGY on Broadway. We spent the next decades roaming in and out of each others’ lives the way you do with family. She taught me, not only how to behave in public, but to take psyllium husk every morning to be sure you are nice and empty at curtain time. To say I loved her is almost an insult to the deep connection I always felt when with her. And so, let me simply send my heart out to Lisa, Armando, Lola and Julio. And let me never forget her ever loyal Rosie! 91 years is a great run for a Broadway legend but for a goddess….we could have worshipped her for a hundred more. Goodbye, my friend. (Charlie, Chita, the quilt I made for her, and me)

Mixing patterns for another new hoodie. I’m getting good at this

Someone, some very generous someone, sent me a box of her tossed off scraps. I opened the box and my mind was blown. I had to make something of them … My aim was to throw judgement away and just grab tiny scraps sewing them together and seeing what they did for one another. If I liked a color, I sewed it on. If I liked a print, onto the quilt it went. I cut very little, (the fussy cut flowers are an exception), but tried to use the scraps as they came out of the pile. The technique was “quilt as you go” style, on the long arm, and it was so much fun to make. it was so freeing! I was in heaven the entire time. Even binding it was fun since I just kept using the scraps. And… It’s HUGE! 120″ X 106″ I love it. But my favorite detail can be seen on the lower right hand corner. it’s a smile covid mask leftover from the baby quilt I made last week.

We lost a great one. David Mixner. A true hero of the LGBT movement. A wonderful human being and a loving friend. Always caring. Always dedicated. And always right. (Left)

This was conceived as a background for appliqué and couching experiments but I fell in love with the simplicity of it so… Quilted it as is and bound it and… say hello to “Harvey’s Basket”

My friend Erin, of Cotton Candy Fabrics, gave me the remainders of a bolt of fabric which, when cut up and sewn, created Covid masks for children. Obviously, the days of cotton masks have passed. I took that fabric, paired it up with a mess of scraps left over from a failed shirt project, and…. Voila!… a friend’s newborn baby is about to get a beautiful quilt. BTW – if you enlarge the photo you’ll see that I quilted it with the repeated message, “YOU ARE SPECIAL”. There is also an Easter egg of my name hidden in the quilting. On to the next one!

Charlie’s audition tape for JEOPARDY with an assist from BoBo. Sing out, Louise!

Look who’s been at it again! I opened the drawer that I toss my orphan blocks into and challenged myself to get sewing! Well, here is the result. The drawer isn’t empty but someone’s bed is about to get full!

This one gave me quite a rough time! It began simply as an exercise in sewing curves. I then decided to “couch” a design over the top which didn’t work out because I don’t really know how to use the “couching” foot. But the disastrous remnants of the experiment are visible in the lower right hand corner. Then I had an idea of “thread painting” Mer-men over the watery landscape. Those disastrous remains can be seen as errant threads toward the middle of the quilt top. And so I cut out the Mer-men figures from fabrics Ala Matisse. I made them of red and violet and hot pink. I pinned them onto the quilt top where they hung unhappily for more than a month while I made 3 other projects. I was just not happy with what I was looking at. Cue fresh eyes! Through the wonderful Lisa McNulty I was virtually introduced to one of my quilting heroes… LIZA PRIOR LUCY! If you’ve never seen the work she does with Kaffe Fasset just look her up. Genius colorist! Magnificent craftsperson! All around terrific human being. She took one look at a. photo and diagnosed the problem that had been staring me in the face the entire time – the MERMEN needed to live in the same color world as the sea in which they swam. Off I went to Cotton Candy Fabrics and, thanks to Erin Byrne Holmqvist having a great selection of Kaffe designs, I was able to choose the 4 prints that I eventually used. I decided to leave the mistakes of the past on the quilt top as a great example to myself of the struggle. So many of these projects seem to come together easily. It’s good to remember that the struggle can be the best part of learning a craft. So.. here it is. Now Liza wants me to make a red version using the original figures. But first I need a good night’s sleep. and moment to celebrate.