This spring, Lisa Ruble, editor of Benartex’s e-zine Modern by the Yard, invited me to participate in her Modern with a Twist column. This column features modern quilter’s interpretations of…
In my previous Cloth in Common blog post about the prompt International, I mentioned that I learned of our prompt while traveling from New Zealand back to Anchorage, Alaska. (If…
Over the years, I have made several quilts using the flying geese unit. I think the obsession started in Nancy Crow’s Workshop called Sets and Variables. We were to select…
Most of you know that I am a founding member of Cloth in Common a small international group of artists. Every two months, we get an unusual prompt from one…
This is the story behind my latest quilt for Cloth Common, the small art quilt group I belong to. Water was the prompt for the most recent two month period. …
In the Alaska, we can be well into May and still have patches of snow and ice. We were out in McCarthy, Alaska last weekend, and this is what the…
It has been almost a month since I have connected with you people. If you follow me on Instagram, you know I have been busy traveling, teaching, and making a…
I married a Dead Head. I knew this going into the marriage, but I didn’t really know what it meant. We spent our younger pre-kid years going to music festivals…
Last summer, I decided to accept an invitation to join an international art quilt group. I wrote about the group in this blog post The group is called Cloth in…
Since I have written Improv Patchwork–Dynamic Quilts Made with Line & Shape, I have received a dozen or so emails asking me all manner of questions about my quilting. Today,…
