Travel brings out the best or the worst in people. I've seen both, but I admit to loving travel and I take the good with the bad. However, it's mostly good. There's something about packing your bags and being satisfied that you've done it well, then there are those first few minutes as the plane…
Category: Quilting
Designing a quilt for a specific project brings forth a lot of challenges.
Designing a quilt for a specific project brings forth a lot of challenges. "Hunger" was this challenge. It's not beautiful, its supposed to be provocative and the images are from my own experiences of people on the streets in Thailand, India and Mexico. The Artist statement will give a detailed description of the quilt. It…
A day in the life of a quilt designer.
4.30. The eyes open and the heart beats a little faster as the day ahead passes through the mind like a flash. Its clear, colored and I rarely achieve all that I set out to do but its good to have a starting point. It's raining, not cold just wet. wet. wet. I lay there thinking….
Bayeux Discipline
It's quiet and I can sit quietly and enjoy my music. Feeling a little strange this evening, I suddenly realized it's the first time in 2 months that I have had a few hours to myself. Home alone and enjoying the sanction of my studio. I'm a little overwhelmed and don't know where to start…
Shoes, Stage 6.
I've finished the shoes… They took almost the entire day to create, in hours…. about 10. Now to quilt the piece and I do have some challenges… In fact. I only had a small piece of black fabric so I chose to add the newspaper border… The entire quilt was assembled prior to doing the…
How will it turn out.?
Having just returned from overseas I am on a time line to finish an Auction quilt for IQA. I can't make quilts as I travel but I can work on the design so today is the day to begin the challenge……!!! It's day 2 home and the jet lag is diminishing so I'm going to…
My own Marathon – What a way to start the year.!!!!!
OK guys, this is a bit embarrassing, But then who am I kidding, - I love it…. This is the link to the Quilt Show and my first video of the year, part 1 of the Houston Quilt Show. The Show I was on a few years ago….. Forget football and journey…
Today I'm working on the new Janome Horizon. Its wonderful, I trialed it in Houston and Its the best machine for the genre I work in. I think the first thing you notice are the huge bank of lights, I can count 5 halogen lights. There is the luxury of space on this machine… Sitting…
progress
I've had lots of visitors today, so the work has been spasmodic. I finished the thread illustration on the flower and you will note that I've taken it out of the background…(the top petal and the stem) it gives a 3 dimensional effect. Now I'm quilting the background following my computer manipulation guides. The watermarks…
Designing fabric on the ipad
Working on some designs…… I need to do my own fabric for portraits and the back ground of my small quilts