While in the Hallie Ford Museum of Art the other day I went up to the corner on the second floor where new work is often shown, and found these three nice prints, gifts of Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom of Seattle. Collections Curator Jonathan Bucci had alerted me to the Louisiana Bendolph print “Shared […]
Category: Quilting
Clay Lohman at JSMA
We were heading to Eugene and wanted to see Clay Lohman’s installation “Camo Cubes” at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon. Parking is very limited and we had heard that we might apply for “movie star” parking due to my knee recuperation..What a delight to drive up and find… We […]
Red and White Quilts
Over the weekend when I was in the “sewing cottage” I got looking at some weird old Red & White blocks I had put up on the design wall… and that reminded me of the terrific catalog of the amazingly beautiful show of red and white quilts at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC in […]
Studio Addict
The first week of January. Snow. In an effort to get the year started right, I’ve been in one studio or another of mine every day. In both cases I entered into long reveries about studios and how lucky we are who have them…alternate realities really. They don’t have to be clean and tidy (though […]
“Still Talking”
Today for me was a day of beginnings and endings… Kay Worthington and I spoke today at Chemeketa Community College at the third quilt show we have produced together. Last year we were invited by Tim Timmerman to show at George Fox University Gallery in the fall. This year we were invited by Laura Mack […]
Improv Quilting
I don’t teach this Improv Quilt class to show people how to make quilts like mine, I do it to explain that there are no mistakes in quilting, that finding something unexpected is always best, and that the work and concentration of quilting transports us to “another land” like making music or art of any […]
The Melange That is July…This Year
What a crazy mixed-up fun month this has been…so far. Possibly there is a limit to how much fun you can actually have in one calendar month, but I haven’t maxed out yet. The fourth of July of course (see below). Then visitors… How and Amy came and we looked at the bridge progress.. […]
SUMMER!
I actually do have a serious and informative post for later in the week, but I’ve been doing some summer things of late…it began with a seismic upgrade which meant cleaning the basement, this of a house we’ve lived in for 36 years…can you IMAGINE what a momentous photo this is?? …and artist Kathryn Cellerini […]
The Heart of the Quilting Community
It’s interesting how every community is composed of overlapping circles of smaller communities…we, for instance, are part of a neighborhood community, a preservation community, an art community, a university community, a garden community and more. We value these circles and like the network they provide for us. In addition to the above, I’m a member […]
Tuesday Quilt Group
Once a month we come together from our different lives and different points of view to sit for a few hours, do a show and tell, and then companionably work. It is this exact thing, this feeling of sitting and working in a group of talented people, that I am only now coming to understand […]
On The Way 