I spent most of a day in conversation with Leslie Bixel about what are warm colors versus cold colors. She said Nancy Crow says warm colors come foreward. OK so what does that mean? she gave me a little exercise with crosses in hot and cold colors to see which came forward, which went back. [...]
I will be leaving my Mexican home here in San Miguel de Allende just after Semana Santa around April 2. I will visit my family in Austin and New Orleans and travel to Mathews, Virginia to work on a project with my dear friend, Svaha Woodward, before returning to Madison. I made a series of [...]
Yesterday I decided to dye 2 different blacks from Dharma Trading Company in 5 color gradations using Katy Widger‘s formulas. I have here in San Miguel Jet black and plain old fashioned “black”. I used 2 tsp in 100ml of urea water with salt and did a full strength 400ml on 1 yard of manta [...]
I am back at the dye pot today, using Katy Widger‘s terrific book Dyeing the color wheel for quilters. I used Turquoise for the blue and my colors were not quite spot on but still it looks pretty sweet. and useful on Mexican muslin called Manta.
Last tuesday I was drinking coffee when I heard a funny sound. What is that??? and I got it… Hot air balloons! I grabbed my iphone and ran up to the terrace. OMG it was right over my house! I looked right to see a second one coming up! so I ran to the [...]
Every Tuesday here in San Miguel there is a flea market on the hill above town. I never miss it, although it can be a somewhat expensive hobby. I wish I could play the sound track it is astounding! The noise, the hawkers, the blaring music of the vendors of cds, the repeated shouts of [...]
We finished half of the center of the 2nd quilt Gordon commissioned me to support him making. I never work from pattern or try to get a specific color. this has been a big learning curve for me… but we are moving along. and here is Gordon Kyle holding up his painting/cutout in front of [...]
My friend Gordon Kyle hired me to make 2 quilts for his daughters of his designs. He made both of these with coloraid paper while hanging out on his sailboat. This one we have been calling fog. We dyed cloth for a week to get all the shades. Today I put the top together… we [...]
I received a commission from the UW Hospital (where I am the most represented artist) to make 2 series of 4 quilts 20×30″ I made the first series before leaving Madison called dots and blocks and I am now working on the second series called Simple Arches. yesterday I finished the first of the series. [...]
Christmas is celebrated for a long time here in Mexico. The final day is when the 3 kings come on January 6. This afternoon I found a couple of young kings with piercings, very kinky! The day before and way way into the night there is a huge market where clothes and toys and king [...]