Challenge Accepted!

When I saw the fabrics selected for the QuiltCon 2024 fabric challenge, I knew I needed to accept the challenge. Purples and blues with lime green–what’s not to like? Windham and QuiltCon offered a free fat eighth bundle of the fabrics to the first 500 people who asked for them, so I threw my name…

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“Supernova” in Process

I’m working on something I rarely do–revisit an older piece and create something new. A few years ago, I made a quilt called Fireflies using a combination of bright reds, oranges, and yellows, plus dull burgundy and gold, with a black background. It sold last year, and I found that I missed it. Here’s the…

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I’m Teaching at the Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival!

I’m excited to be teaching at the Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival February 23-25, 2023! I have three full day classes on the schedule. The Saturday class is full, but there are spaces available in the other two. Thursday, Feb. 23 – Fearless Curved Piecing – Take the fear out of curved piecing with three different Improv…

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Alaska Quilting Cruise in 2021!

UPDATE: My Alaska cruise in 2021 has been cancelled due to Covid-19. Hopefully we’ll be able to reschedule at a later date.    I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be teaching on a Quilting Cruise to Alaska in 2021! The dates are August 14-21, 2021. We’ll leave out of Seattle, WA and cruise up the Inside…

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Fun with Improv at Capital Quilters Raleigh NC!

I’m just back from a fun visit to the Capital Quilters Guild in Raleigh, NC. I gave my Anatomy of an Improv Quilt lecture and taught two workshops, Fire and Ice Bargello and Improv Puzzle, to some very enthusiastic and talented quilters! The Improv Puzzle class takes a free form approach to improv design. Students…

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SAQA Auction Starts Friday!

The annual Studio Art Quilts Association (SAQA) Benefit Auction starts this Friday, September 13. Over 400 12″ square quilts will be for sale over a three week period, including my Flying Saucer piece. This Friday, all of the quilts will go on sale for $1000 each beginning at 2 PM. Then on Monday September 16,…

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Another Two Weeks at the Crow Barn

I’ve been home for a little over a week from my third trip to the Nancy Crow Barn in Ohio. It’s an intense, exhausting, exciting two weeks immersed in art–not just fiber art, but Art with a capital A, full of exploration of color, line, shape, composition,  and design that could apply to any medium…

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“Abstract Akimbo” Completed

My newest large scale art quilt is finished, and I’ve decided to call it Abstract Akimbo. I like the word “akimbo” and it seems to apply to the figures in this piece, which are all a little off kilter. The other choice was actually “Off Kilter,” but I thought that might be a little off…

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Work in Progress with Friends

This large scale piece has been up on my design wall for the last several months, patiently waiting its turn to be completed. Part of the problem was a busy travel schedule in the last months of 2018, and part of it was uncertainty about how to proceed. It’s been through several variations already. This…

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