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 [...]
Well it’s been a busy week, folks. I finished the top for the second 5×8′ quilt for the new Wingra Clinic on Park Street. I love some of these fiber art pieces. I call this work: Large and small, light and dark Blocks. It’s with Cheryl Payne at the Patchwork peddlar about to be quilted! [...]
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.
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 [...]
Well here they are, tiny baby onesies and other cute garments scrunch dyed in jars. I can tell I was out of red and my fuscia (a primary) was sort of thick and a few will have to go back in they are just too too pale… whats going to cover all the barf that [...]
I bought about 30 tiny onesies this morning at a garage sale for .25 each with a volume discount (of course)! and set to dyeing them. Here they are stuffed in their little cups after being soaked in a mixture of soda ash and water. 20 minutes later, stage 2! [...]
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 [...]
Robin Cooper took me to see the Gee’s Bend exhibit for my birthday quite a few years ago. I was familiar with African American quilts and loved them. This show rocked my world. I came home and pieced the crosses quilt out of beautiful but heavy earth tone fabrics. I was up till 2 in [...]