Studio Notes

Starting in May of this year, the main project I worked on was Accident 2, still in progress.  On a large, difficult piece like this, I nee...

The top is done. It measures about 60 x 100."   I do not have the full sense of satisfaction that I sometimes feel when I compl...

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...