I’ve always been a little obsessed by pattern. In fabric, floors, clouds, food…the patterns always emerge. One part of quilting I love is just looking at the fabrics and taking all the patterns in… Part of getting back into the studio after a hiatus is looking at past work… …and I immediately saw all the […]
Category: Quilting
Quilt News…the Good News First…
I finished the “recovery quilt”…(even though the recovery itself lags behind…)! I started the quilt in August using some hand-dyed fabrics from Mary and a sheet from Value Village… I added on to it this fall until it was big enough to be a “real” quilt… …and then started quilting it. For me only, the […]
Take-A-Breath Day
I admit to kind of liking it when something shows up in the NYTimes or a magazine as being a must have item…and it’s an item that’s been kicking around my own kitchen for at least three years (though I take no credit for design sense…it was a gift)… (in case you missed it, it’s […]
Stamina-building, Day 4
That’s really what this week is about…starting to walk, and building stamina…but in the most fun possible way. Today’s “work” began with a sunny-day breakfast with some artist friends, including Violet, who got right to work with crayons… and then getting the quilt (for the soon-to-arrive Seattle baby) safely into his grandmother’s hands… After lunch […]
Seeking Order
Neither art-making nor quilting, my two main endeavors these days, are orderly processes for me. (I AM orderly in the kitchen…learned behavior after over a decade in a restaurant kitchen…but in other work, my work-space becomes something of a disaster area. I’ve come to believe that if it isn’t a mess, nothing good will come […]
Notes From the Sewing Room Floor
Well…not the REAL sewing room. The real sewing room is upstairs, and I can’t get there right now…so in the spirit of making do, I moved my machine, ironing board and piles of stuff down to the main floor. (Note: the person I live with is very tolerant…) I set up shop in “the back […]
The Wedding Quilt
When she heard Zach and Ashton were getting married, my sister in law LeeAnn immediatelsuggested we make a quilt…because she’s a quilter. She suggested she make half the blocks and I make half the blocks, and she chose a Becky Goldsmith applique pattern. Each block could vary between 9 and 11 inches wide, and would […]
QUILTS
Some friends have a nice old family quilt that mysteriously was damaged, and I agreed to repair it. Have I ever repaired a quilt before?? Nope. But it was fun and didn’t take long… the damage was on both sides, but not as dramatic on the back… A damaged section of the quilt had been […]
SUN…
Well the sun is gone and the rains are setting in, but last week in California I sat in the sun on Carolyn’s deck, and put the final stitches on this little quilt I started in Alabama at the Camp McDowell Gee’s Bend quilting week. and here it was on the floor as I was […]
ART LAUNDRY
It all began when Carolyn thought we might want to collaborate on an installation in her “home” gallery Lost Coast Culture Machine, in Fort Bragg, California. She then admitted a deep-seated need to iron in public, and “Art Laundry” was born…with the support of gallery owners Anne Beck and Dietmar Krumrey. We visited the gallery […]
On The Way 