Studio Notes

Working on pieces like "Accident" is just that--work.  These deeply personal pieces are challenging and difficult, both in the co...

Back in May, I made the decision to quilt my shot cotton "Plain Spoken quilt with embroidery stitches .  In the months since, I scoured...

I recently finished piecing the shot cotton " Plain Spoken " quilt.  The next step was to figure out what I wanted to do for th...

The second project I'm working on between stints on the art quilts is a version of a  pattern by Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle, "Pl...

I usually have at least one project in progress, set up by the comfortable couch in our living room.  Right now, I'm working on the han...

To make a backing for my shot cotton "Spectrum" quilt (see here and here ), I decided to experiment with tray dyeing, a me...

I finished piecing the top today.  I wanted to give some close-up photos, to show the range of colors in the shot cottons.  They are real...

A couple of years ago, I made a baby quilt from a pattern called "Spectrum" by Judy Turner, from her book with Margaret Rolfe, ...