What a delight to open my mail box, this week, to find the Summer 2024 issue of Art Quilting Studio, open it to page 90 and see my name in print! My work has been included in various books and magazines before and it’s been a wonderful experience. This time, it was all about my…
My friend Mary Kerr, has been challenging me for years. Encouraging me to go places I didn’t know were possible. She revels in taking anything vintage; be it scraps, quilts or textiles, and repurposing them. Creating something new, all while giving us permission to use those old items and making of them, what we wish….
Earlier this year, a quilt that I entered into my local quilt show was judged, hung and then removed from the show. It was a community quilt that I had longarm quilted for the Social Justice Sewing Academy. I was proud of the work that I had done on this project and I wanted to…
My husband and I just returned from a nearly 4,000-mile road trip, to spend our Anniversary at the Grand Canyon. We added stops and excursions along the way and while it was colder than I had hoped for, it was a wonderful week and a half of seeing this beautiful country. We dropped off my…
I love trying to quilt unusual materials. A lot of quilter’s like to use cotton and cotton is lovely. I like to see what happens. So I try different things like linen, cork , leather or lutrador. I’m still working on that last one. Some things need more experimentation than others. Never did I imagine…
Hello! Welcome to my place! I’m re-starting this whole blog thing with an introduction. This is me and this is where I hang out most days. Most people would use this space as a living room and until 2010, that’s how we used it. That’s when it became my studio. We live in a 100+…