I can remember when I started creating quilts with curved cuts.  I was nervous and intensely focused, afraid the pieces sewn together would not lay flat.  Now, many years and many quilts later, I create almost all my art quilts with curved piecing.  Straight lines are unusual for me. I decided to make an Ocean
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I created this Sunset 71 over water after seeing a photo of a similar sunset.  I like the colors in this because it is a moment in time when the sunset is still quite filled with lightness, both in the sky and on the water.  I really studied the reflection on the water and noticed
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I’ve been busy this fall creating art quilts, more focused than much of the last two years.  My life is finding a new rhythm after my husband’s passing and COVID coming to live with all of us.  Moving myself back into art quilt creativity has been a much needed outlet for productive time and a
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I recently created TREES 42 which gives you an idea of how many tree art quilts I have made.  I like to try different background colors and different layouts of the trees.  In this art quilt I used gray blues and gray greens for the non-leaf background parts of the quilt.  These more subtle colors
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When I finished my last custom order this spring, I took a look at my Etsy shop and realized I needed to design some art quilts with CURVES.  This is not a “twist my arm” situation since I love love love making quilts with curved piecing.  But this time I wanted to try some new
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I love to look at abstract paintings for art quilt inspiration.  Sometimes I’m looking for great color combinations, sometimes I’m thinking about design possibilities.  I found an abstract painting using simple curves of color which looked like a landscape to me.  But mostly I liked the colors and the curves.  Maybe because they are my
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As the fall arrives and summer winds down, I find myself thinking about images that relax me.  I just finished this art quilt in early September.  It transports me back to quiet afternoons at Long Beach Island in NJ with my family or visits to the Outer Banks in NC.  Beaches are universal.   After creating
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This summer of 2021 is proving to be quite different for me.  My husband Jeff’s death in January 2020 and then the 15 months of COVID left me with lots of time to quilt….at home.  Now fully vaccinated as are my friends, it seems as though the summer has taken on a different urgency, to
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