Studio Notes

Back in early March, I started working on a final quilt in my series about loss, one that would focus on stones, and would include some k...

I did more trials this past week, collected below: Some are pretty awful (like the large piece done with deconstructed screen print...

I'm back to working on the large quilt having to do with stones.  In my previous post on this quilt, I mentioned being unsatisfied with...

Holiness  is now basted and the hand-quilting has begun.   Hand-basting on the floor took about a week.  Now that that's done, I ca...

In the last two months, I've spent a lot of time in my basement wet studio, dyeing many gradations of different grays.  After the f...

My first blog post on stones was written in April 2009 , so I've been thinking about this subject matter for a long time now, and have t...

The making of this quilt goes back more than two years. Here's the story of the front . And some details: Both top and back have be...

I finished up a small piece I posted about on May 20 . It doesn't look very different in its finished form, because all I did was stitch...

Time to catch up, now that teaching and the art class I was taking are both finished for the year. The collage of cut up images of stones t...

Having put aside "Shelter" for a while, I sorted through other projects that have been in the closet, looking for those that would...

In between the painstaking work of piecing the black tier of Shelter, I've worked on this simple quilt top, made from the pile of stone-...

Back in this post I wrote about a quilt top pieced with rectangles that combined fabric from two ideas--thinking about a pine grove and abo...