Blogger’s Quilt Festival – A Little Citrus
I almost forgot to enter the Blogger’s Quilt Festival this year! Sponsored by Amy Ellis, who blogs at Amy’s Creative Side, it’s a fun week of sharing quilts and quilting online this year September 18 – 25. You can follow the Festival here. A Little Citrus is one of my favorite quilts from my book,…
See My Work at the Torpedo Factory!
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been juried in to the Fiberworks Studio at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA! Fiberworks, in Studio 14 on the first floor, is one of the original studios at the Torpedo Factory. As of September 1, I’m one of eight artists working there in a variety of…
Quilt Inspiration from a Gift
Inspiration for my work comes from many different places. In this case, it came from scarf. And it wasn’t even mine! I was giving a talk last month in connection with the opening of my solo show at the Crossroads Gallery at Goodwin House in Falls Church, VA. There was a lady sitting in the…
Prairie Star Quilters Teaching Trip
I’m just back home from a great trip to teach and lecture at the Prairie Star Quilters Guild in St. Charles, IL. It’s a large guild with about 300 members, so they have an evening meeting and a morning meeting to accommodate as many schedules as they can–what a good idea! I taught my Artful…
Mounting Small Art Quilts on Canvas – Tutorial
I’ve had so many requests to explain how I mount my small art quilts on painted black canvas that I decided it was time to write a tutorial! There is a step-by-step description of my process in my book, Artful Improv, if you’d like to have it in hard copy. I started mounting my smaller…
Fun with Artful Improv Classes
I’ve had fun teaching Artful Improv classes the last few weeks! So I decided I should do a roundup of some of the wonderful work that has been created in my recent classes. Artful Improv is the name of my book: Artful Improv: Explore Color Recipes, Building Blocks & Free Motion Quilting, and you can…
The Design Wall is Full
Do you like to work on one project at a time or several? I almost always have multiple projects in process on the design wall in my studio. Next to my sewing machine, the design wall is probably one of the most essential tools in my studio. My design wall is full right now with…
Guest on American Patchwork & Quilting Podcast!
I had so much fun as a guest on Pat Sloan’s American Patchwork & Quilting Podcast today! We talked about my book, Artful Improv: Color Recipes, Building Blocks & Free Motion Quilting and the fact that Pat and I belong to the same large multi-chapter guild here in Northern Virginia! We chatted about color, using simple…
Thoughts on QuiltCon 2017
I just spent a fun weekend at my first QuiltCon! The image above is a bird’s eye view from the second floor before the show opened this morning. Since I’d never been to QuiltCon before, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was impressed with the energy around the event. One of the best…