I’ve been making art quilts for almost 10 years. My studio looks like a fabric shop with around 500 or more different fabrics…AND YET…there always seems to be a unique color or design I’m looking for. My late husband used to joke that he hoped my quilt business would at least pay for my fabric
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New Art Quilts and my blog is back for 2021
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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Three Custom Quilts Challenge My Abilities
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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Red and Green but not Christmas!!
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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Many custom quilts keeping me busy
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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Making Face Masks, Quilts on hold
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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Curves and color in an art quilt
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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Quilting Landscapes if Good for My Soul
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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I’m back in my quilt shop
Back in September I posted about my husband’s diagnosis of ALS. That diagnosis ended up being incorrect. He instead developed two very rare cancers and passed away in early January. I was fortunate to have him home with me with caregiver support and hospice support for the last 6 weeks of his life. I am
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