California

I spent a week in California with a dear, dear friend. We did little except talk, read, talk, knit, and talk some more. There was a lot of catching up to do. Besides, we were sitting in front of an incredible view. Our one big excursion was to the Getty Villa Malibu, a museum of [...]

Minimalism

As it turned out, I took 1391 pictures on the trip to Durango and Wyoming. Don’t cringe. I’m only going to show you three more. These are three of my favorites which turned out to be quite minimal. As my quilting is going minimal, so seems my photographs.

Home again

Before I edit the more than 800 pictures that I took on my trip, I want to post pictures of the award winners for which I was the Juror at:
FIBER CELEBRATED 2009, An international juried fiber art exhibition
July 29 to September 20, 2009
Center of Southwest Studies Gallery
Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Dr., Durango CO
BEST OF [...]

Good Grief Quilt

Uncommon Threads, an art quilt group that I belong to, has made a funeral quilt to be used for each of us when we die. When the last one dies, it will be donated to a museum. Sounds morbid, I know, but a couple of members researched the subject of funeral quilts and discovered that [...]

Back in the Saddle Again

Got the bug to do some little studies. Here are three more. Can you find the cat hair on one of them? Oh, good grief.

I’m really in the mood to do more of these, but we’re leaving next Tuesday for Durango, CO to attend the Intermountain Weavers Converence and then on to a camping trip [...]

Detail

The current wall quilt, that I’ve been working on, is finished. I don’t want to show the whole photograph until it’s been exhibited, but here is a detail.

It is a photo image with stick figures silk screened over it, hand dyed silk velvet with pieced cotton satin stitch-appliqued on top. Hand quilted and machine quilted. [...]

Take a Moment…

…to read the “Inspired by Photos” information in the sidebar. Linda Matthews has put together a photo hunt and questions, concerning copyright to test your knowledge, with ten quilt artists.  At the end of the hunt, you will be able to dowload an ebook/slideshow of photographs that have been provided by the same ten artists, [...]

Two of my small 6″ x 6″ pieces are in this exhibit.

Two More

For lack of a better name – “Point”.  Any suggestions????

Two’s Company

Moon Shots

Moon Walk
Seven Moons
I’m trying to get back to the little 6″x 6″ pieces. Fusing and machine embellishment.