As part of my spotlight on Creative Whimsy, I was asked to show several completed quilts. Crotons served as an example of my earlier quilting style. This piece is one of my all time favorites! Then, I showed some of my more recent abstract pieces, along with these words about my transition to this style. My…
Creative Whimsy, a website about artists and their endeavors has just done a spotlight on me. How nice! They sent me a ton of questions and I answered most of them. (I mean, you didn’t want to read PAGES about me, right?) I was glad they asked about my process. I explained how I make…
As usual, my current quilt started with a high contrast piece of hand dyed fabric. This is all I had of it. What could I do to best show it off? The additional fabrics added above provided interest, but the original fabric swatch still seemed rather straight forward. It was kinda hard to judge against…
I’ve been working on a new quilt, using fabrics I dye-printed during my last dying session. As you can see, I made them to go together. To get started, I pulled these out, along with every fabric I thought MIGHT go with them. As usual, this stage was a rather ugly mess. (I was toying…
My current quilt is progressing along nicely, (but slowly.) I spent a LOT of time piecing the background and was quite happy with it. But, I wanted to tie the background of angular shapes into the design more. Since I planned to use large circular shapes in the foreground I thought skinny circles in the…
I’ve been wanting to do a series of quilts about my family. I made the first one, Happy Family, which used circles to represent people. With that one the circles were an 11th hour addition. For the next one I wanted to be much more intentional. After selecting green for the background of my current quilt it…
For my latest quilt I envisioned an interesting green background with vibrantly colored circles in the foreground. I got to work on the background with my usual technique of auditioning fabrics and designing as I went along. I chose green, because I had A LOT of green fabric. Plus, I had a theme idea that…
I’ve been busy cutting slats, packing and shipping quilts, making lists, and marking things off. Such are the activities needed when preparing for a solo show. I’ve got my promo/ad all ready to go. Now I’m working on a press release for the local papers. (When was the last time I wrote one of those???)…
Here’s my latest quilt, Happy Family I’m REALLY happy with it and I hope you like it, too. As you can see, I added three loose circles, to add interest. Since there are three members of my immediate family, and because the colors are so upbeat, I decided to name it Happy Family. I got carried away…
I continued working on my latest quilt, using lots of trial and error. This is where I left off in the last blog post. I decided against the strong stripes in the lower left. This closer shot shows how I first, fold the fabrics to audition placement and size. I cut into them when I…