In my opinion, my cool friend Denyse Schmidt has the edge on hip coolness.
First, she makes incredible quilts, one of which I just had to have both because I loved it and because of it's super appropriate name: "mental blocks" (how could you not own such a quilt?).
It's the very quilt you see here and it's on my sofa where I go when I experience any of these aforementioned blocks (which, needless to say, is often--especially when I'm writing). Sometimes I throw caution to the wind and save myself a step and head straight for the sofa to write since I know I'll end up there at some point. "Mental Blocks" is the perfect antidote to blocks of any kind. Just looking at it makes me want to sing and dance and run and play. What better place to be to write?
To see Denyse's stuff for yourself, check out her site denyseschmidtquilts.com.
Second, she lives in a wildly cool house and you can check it out here.
That's the thing about my quilt. It makes you happy just to look at it.
