I am a reluctant quilt studio cleaner!  Usually after a bout of creating a handful of wall art quilt, the piles of fabric and scraps everyone starts to bother me and I dive into a thorough cleaning.  This happened the other day and I was inspired to continue the process into my closet with about
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Art is sometimes hard to gift.  We each have our unique likes and preferences. But you can start now with special friends and family as you visit the next few months in late summer and early fall.  Take a look at decorating colors and what kinds of art your friends and family have on their
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I had so much fun with thread sketching of grasses on the dunes on some of my ocean/dunes art quilts that I decided to try this technique with flowers.  A few weeks ago I created a quilt pieced background of mixed green piecing with several different fabrics for the sky.  On that background I did
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I tried a different piecing process with this recent art quilt of GRASSES.  I selected a single background fabric and then layered different grass pieces, using some darker ones in the back and more medium greens in the front. I also added some thread sketching of stems with decorative foliage, using black thread, to add
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I have again begun to accept limited custom order requests.  Any custom request must be of one of my designs in different colors or a different size. The custom quilt shown here was a very creative request by a new mom for an art quilt for her baby’s room.  I have made this design in
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After my local art quilt show the month of January, I’ve been busy creating new quilts.  Somehow the whole month of January snuck by but February has been a very productive month in my studio.   I’m excited about two tree quilts I finished in February, one Birch Trees 16 in Spring and the other Birch
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I have been creating ocean and dunes art landscape quilts for many years but this week I decided to try some new designs.  In Ocean and Dunes 22 I used one fabric for the sky instead of piecing it like I usually had done.  When it came time to quilt it, I thought I would
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I had an interesting request this month from a pack leader of 4th grade Webelos, boy scouts. They were working on a unit on art appreciation and she asked me to speak with her pack about making art quilts.  I was a little hesitant because I wasn’t sure how interested 4th grade boys would be
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If you have been reading my blogs the last few years you know my husband died in January 2020.  I walked away from my quilting in mid 2019 and did not return to sewing until later in 2020.  My grief and sadness was too deep for the fun of quilting.  For me, quilting always makes
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