Studio Notes

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

I've recently added links to a selection of my quilts in a box at the top right of my blog home page.  I wanted to include the quilt a...

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, ...

We've had lovely fall weather here in western Illinois, much appreciated after a blazing-hot summer.  On a beautiful day recently, Da...

I recently came back from a five-day class at the Barn with Carol Soderlund .  The class was called "Visions and Revisions," an...

I have a trunk full of old linens from my mother and my aunt, both of whom delightedly abandoned linen for permanent press.  I have pulle...