Cut Up That Quilt Top

Sometimes it just doesn’t work. I love creating improvisationally without a pattern or templates, but I’m the first to admit that the process isn’t foolproof. That composition just doesn’t hang together right, or the colors don’t mesh like you thought they would, or the lines and shapes just aren’t interesting. It happens to everyone. So…

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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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Creating an Improv Quilt

As a teacher, one of the questions I get most often from students in my Improv classes is “how do you know what to do?” followed closely by “how do you know when it’s finished?” Those are great questions with Improv quilting, because there’s no pattern and no rules to follow. For me, this is…

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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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Working Large

In 2018, one of my goals was to work much larger than I have done in the past. It’s been a very interesting journey. Working large doesn’t just mean making bigger quilts–it also means adjusting my style and my method of design. In the past, I’ve started with a color plan, pulled out fabrics that…

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Butterfly Wings On Exhibit at Torpedo Factory

My new quilt Butterfly Wings is on exhibit at the Fiberworks Studio14 Gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA until September 3, 2018. And I’ll be there giving a demo on free motion stitching in the gallery this Saturday, July 21, from 1:30 – 2 PM. This is an appropriate demo, since the stitching…

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I’m a Poster Girl!

I’m so excited to announce that my work has been chosen as the feature art for the poster and T-shirt for the Downtown Art Festival in Gainesville, FL this December! (Note: updated with a better image of the poster.) I got the call from the show director earlier this year, but I wanted to wait…

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Spring Art Fest in Great Falls is This Weekend!

The Great Falls Studios Spring Art Fest is this weekend–Saturday May 5 and Sunday May 6. I’ll be at my studio at the Artists’ Atelier, located at 756 Walker Road, Great Falls, VA right in the Village Center. Hours are 10-5 both days. I’m excited to show my new “Confetti” quilt for the first time!…

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Designing Confetti

Confetti is my newest art quilt and I’d like to share the process of creating it, because it’s a new way of working for me. This quilt grew out of my work at the Crow Barn last year, although it’s a completely new work–you can read about that experience here and here. I’ve always been…

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