Studio Notes

Back in 2013, I made a small quilt,  "Homage to Ellsworth Kelly," working from his paintings of colorful squares. You can see an e...

With prepping my studio for painting, putting it all back together again, and then a two-week trip to France, I was out of the studio for al...

I'm thinking of working on no more than one block a day , so that I don't get frustrated with the process of working on these blo...

I had stamped several bowls on white linen instead of natural, and decided to make a few cards from them, no stitching added. These n...

It has been many months since I've made a quilt.  I finished piecing " Holiness " in March, 2016, and then worked on...

I was the lucky winner of a copy of Kathleen Loomis' new book, Pattern-Free Quilts: Riffs on the Rail Fence Block .   I have long fo...

I'm delighted to be a stop on the blog tour for Sherri Lynn Wood 's new book,  The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters.   I was...

(Note to Quilters by Design folks--If you'd rather be surprised by your block in March, go no further!) I tend to work on mult...

I got the happy news recently that a quilt of mine has been accepted into a forthcoming book by Sherri Lynn Wood, The Improv Han...

A recent project demonstrated clearly to me how expanding a palette can make a more interesting quilt.  I recently got a ruler t...