I’m not a big Facebook fan but I do check in with a few old friends who live far away.  About a month ago, a chlldhood friend posted an incredible photo of a sunset in Virginia.  I commented on her post….”I see an art quilt!”    This past week I finished Sunset 55, inspired by
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The custom part of my art quilt business has been exceptionally busy, leaving little time for creative art quilts exploring new designs.  In January, between customs, I took advantage of a free week to create two new designs. First, I created a new version of “Birch Trees by the Lake”, 23″H x 28″W.  You’ve heard
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I create about a dozen custom quilts each year and almost all are a change in size of an existing quilt design. I have received positive responses to these custom art quilts but it is often a challenge to take a design and colors in a smaller quilt and make it larger.  I have learned
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2018 has arrived and in my Pennsylvania studio I am staying warm in spite of extreme cold outside.  It is a good time to quilt….but then, isn’t it ALWAYS a good time to quilt!? I am making a change to my blog postings….moving to a committed blog post in the first week of each month
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Purchasing an ART QUILT as a gift is similar to buying a print, photograph, or painting.  We are often reluctant to do this due to personal taste in art.  I would like to suggest that purchasing small works of art for friends and family may be the most fun gift of all.  Everyone has a
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When my creative juices are feeling a bit stagnant or maybe every day life is just crowding out the ideas, I look at abstract paintings to get inspired.  I’ve been busy creating a lot of landscape quilts and flower quilts and my heart and brain needed to work in a different design area.  I found
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Not to minimize design….BUT….the perfect fabric is so important for an art quilt!  The other day I was looking for fabric to redo pillows and a throw blanket for our bedroom when I came across an abstract cream with pale grey and pale dusty rose fabric.  One of my poppy designs is created on an
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One of my signature styles is the use of curved piecing in art quilts.  I use these techniques exclusively with my landscape quilts and also with any abstract quilts I create.  There are so many varieties of designs for which curved piecing is a great choice.  This week I made three new quilts and used
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