Hooray…I finished the spring quilt only two days after the solstice! it’s all different than my beginning intentions…less detailed maybe…but springy all the same. And, it’s DONE! Hooray…here’s a detail…each square quilted differently… and I signed it BIG…which I’ve never really done before… …now on to “Turbulence”…goody…
Category: Quilting
Works in Progress….
This weekend I got OUT of the bathroom… and INTO the studio… where, after looking at an old painting painted in memory of the lovely William Peyron, dishwasher at the Arbor Cafe for 6 years, reader, person of great good humor (sometimes old paintings are better than photographs for conjuring people up…this is called “I […]
Happy Birthday Harry!
We started Sunday at the beach… but quickly jumped in the car, and headed home to get ready for Harry’s 84th birthday party. LUCKILY I can sew in the car (…and no, I wasn’t driving…) I’m still working on the spring quilt…trying to finish before summer gets here! The sky was so beautiful today…. We […]
The Spring Quilt
This winter I was “confined” and had a lot of time to read, to sew and…to surf the internet. Somewhere along the way I ran across the work of Japanese illustrator Siota Mako … and the idea for the spring quilt was born…here are a few more of the inspirational flowers of Mako’s that I […]
A Visit to Cynthia…
Quilter Cynthia Wilcox was one of my very first quilting mentors. She taught me a lot, and patiently looked at my puny first efforts, always adding encouraging comments. I went to her studio several times and we would just “play” with scraps…I consider those moments to have been seriously important to the way I work. […]
Anne’s Quilt: Reality vs Abstract
Last fall I was in California with Carolyn, setting up an installation and show at the Lost Coast Culture Machine in Fort Bragg (“ART Laundry”). I showed 2D work, but also quilts, and gallery owner Anne Beck was curious about the process. “How do you make a quilt?” she said…I said…”you just start.” We struck […]
Moving to the Abstract…Quilts
Grids, abstracted images, hidden narratives…all part of the 2D work I make, AND…it’s just dawning on me…part of why I like quilting. Quilts can be quite abstract, they ARE grids, and they certainly contain hidden narratives…on several levels if you are using “repurposed” fabric. I’ve written here about the quilt I made for baby Hendrica […]
Saturday Catch-up…
Wow… a busy three days have zoomed by over here in the far west. In chronological order (I’m influenced by an art historian here…) it looked like this…celebrate Jim’s birthday (and it was a major one…) have breakfast with artists…good talk, good breakfast… go get LAST (5th) cast removed, into “the boot”, and actually SEE […]
A swirl of a day…
Posting on blogs late at night is probably like writing emails when you’re mad…it shouldn’t be done…tired, all the events of the day swirling…too tired to edit… caught in a maelstrom of stitches… roaring off to bed…
On The Way 