I recently created an enlarged design of a smaller quilt I had made several years ago.  All enlargements have challenges, especially as I’m usually working from a photo and I don’t make patterns.  This starburst design is a creation of “rays” with each having seven different fabrics in it, progressing from light to dark fabrics
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Last year was a busy year with custom quilt orders.  I had one custom order for a tree quilt design, quite large.  I was working from a photo of a quilt I made previously and the customer wanted the design enlarged.  I’ve made dozens of such orders of different designs but this time around, I
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The year 2020 is finally over and I’m glad.  Not just because of the pandemic, which has all of us learning to live differently, but because my husband died last January.  I had no idea the grieving process would be so intense, so life consuming and so difficult.  But…I am feeling part of the human
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I am fairly firm about always making custom quilts that are one of my designs, larger or smaller or different colors.  However, I had a request last year to create a landscape, which was one of my designs, and two quilts of cats.  I was quite uncertain of my cat design abilities!!  I’m not a
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A dear friend asked me to make a custom curved pieced quilt for her to match her decor.  She wanted reds and greens.  While the color wheel says red and green are complimentary, I had to confess to her that I couldn’t think of red and green without thinking of Christmas.  So….time to expand my
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As this year began and my husband died, I wasn’t sure I could muster my creative spirit to sew.  Sewing brings me such joy and is such a special outlet for my creativity.  I wasn’t feeling a lot of joy and even the beautiful fabrics (well over 500!) in my studio couldn’t lift my spirits. 
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As the pandemic took over our lives in central Pennsylvania, I decided to put down art quilt making and take up mask making. My initial efforts were a tucked mask with ear elastic but I quickly realized that keeping the mask on ears for the periodic community user was kind of hard…no easy way to
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I often look at paintings and photographs to find inspiration for new art quilts.  I’m especially drawn to other art with curves in the abstract designs.  I LOVE piecing curves in my art quilts, a design component which I would say defines my art quilts as different from those of other quilters.  The quilt showcased
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I’m working my way into a new normal in life after saying goodbye to my dear husband and best friend.  He experienced many health problems in 2019 which resulted in my closing down my sewing studio since last August.  Finally, in early February, a few weeks after his death, I re-entered my studio and began
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