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 [...]
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 holiday show last weekend was a big success. Anette Hansen took some pictures I would like to share with you! Silk and rayon velvet is the most seductive fiber! It’s fun to paint and hard to sew. Here are the new smaller sizes I developed for this years show: For the last [...]
I have been helping Rebecca Sites out with a sewing class at the Catholic Multi-cultural Center which she teaches in Spanish, quite masterfully. There is a Monday class and a Friday class… I caught her bag demo in both and came home to sew this nifty shopping bag with my hand painted cotton sateen that [...]
This is almost all of the second part of the collection for Absolutely Art on Atwood Avenue. these are one sided velvet in 2 sizes that can be hand washed and machine dried. They are painted with procion fiber reactive dyes here in my studio at 1331 Dewey Court in Madison.
I have a darling home in San Miguel de allende Mexico where I winter. It does have very funky mexican construction and the bathroom is 22 steps from the kitchen. BFB…Big F*ing Bummer! I thought about selling it last year but it’s not quite the time. I decided to put in a half bath on [...]
It’s a humble thing a potholder, but sort of useful. I made my first on on a little loom with loops and went door to door selling them for a quarter. They sold like…hotcakes? potholders! Well I am still at it, now dyeing cloth or cutting up quilt tops that don’t work out, layering batting [...]
In the south we call distant relatives “kissin cousins” I was commissioned by my brother in law’s niece Ashley, the cousin of my niece Cydney to make a blankie for her first grandbaby coming soon. It’s a funny thing about blankies… they started off as a tithe to the newborns and have slowly turned [...]
A few years ago I did a project with the quilters and poets where the poet gave the quilter a poen to inspire a quilt and the quilter gave the poet a quilt to inspire a poem. I was paired with Timothy Walsh who happens to be quite a brilliant poet and a delightful [...]
My friend Lisa asked me to make something for her co-worker who is about to have a baby. The older son has named the baby “BUBBLEPOP MUSHROOM NINJA” and she wanted this name on the blankie. With an aquatic theme for the child’s room what could be more appropriate than my signature little cat [...]