On a grey February day, stopping by Design San Francisco was as invigorating as a scoop of lemon sorbet. Which, by the way, is also the name of Benjamin Moore’s Color of the Year. Benjamin Moore’s Mary Hoffman shared the news about “emerging pastels” and the “softening of the palette” at the beginning of this three [...]
At the annual Quilting in the Garden quilt show held at Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore this past weekend, quilts hung from beautiful old oaks like a dapper giant’s freshly hung laundry. Each year the show features a professional quilter and this year’s quilting queen was Judy Mathieson, master of the Mariner’s Compass. Her exquisitely pieced quilts were [...]
Though this was supposed to be Tangerine’s year, the Blues Brothers (and their sisters Azure, Turquoise and Indigo) rule! According to San Francisco seamstress Laurel Sprigg, blue is the color she’s stitching up most often for the interior designs of her fashionable clients. She attributes the ongoing interest in heavenly hues and patterns–like this new [...]
