Studio Notes

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...

The Quilt Alliance is an organization devoted to the documentation of American quilts.  One of their projects is "Go Tell It At the Qui...

Today I did the overdyeing for Accident-2.  Since I was doing this on the cloth alone (no screen stretched over the top), I realized I coul...

I left this work to batch for about 10 days.  Today I washed it out--detail above, full piece below.  The final step will be to overdye...

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

I'm making progress again on Accident 2.  When I last wrote about the piece (in this post ), I had gotten to this point in the trials: ...

Matisse, Le Coeur (The Heart), photo from The National Galleries of Scotland Matisse is one of my favorite artists, and I have long be...