It’s sometimes useful to repeatedly follow the same path creatively. This is called practice. To understand things deeply and in detail sometimes requires that we repeat familiar techniques and subjects. … Read More
My mother’s 90th (!) birthday was yesterday and today would have been my grandmother’s birthday. In honor of both of them, I thought it would be an auspicious day to … Read More
I’m home now, but what a whirlwind tour was last week at AQS QuiltWeek – Paducah. Whew! It was a thrill for myself and the thousands of excited attendees who … Read More
This collage portrait of my son Sam, has been in progress almost as long as COVID-19 has been on our radar. In other words, almost two years. And like COVID, … Read More
This Saturday in your regular weekly post, I’ll unveil my (finally) finished quilt, “Earthshine.” The piece is a portrait of my son as a crescent moon, the third portrait (one … Read More
Now that I’m finished the collage piecing of my quilt “Earthshine,” it’s time to prepare it for quilting—I’m on the home-stretch! The fabric collage technique is a raw-edged appliqué of … Read More
Okay folks, it’s down to the wire—finishing the portrait collage of my son, Sam—my summer project. And three days from today, summer is officially over. Just so you know, when … Read More
Sometimes it’s the simple things that take the longest to figure out—like creating a “perfect” circle in fabric collage. Even though I’m willing to let it waver ever so slightly, … Read More
A couple weeks ago, I posted a third update of the progress of my son’s moon portrait. Coincidently, I was also into the third “final” draft stage and had finally … Read More
This fabric collage portrait of my son Sam, is one that I began the week of his 23rd birthday, April 2020. Now more than a year later, it has become … Read More