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Art Quilt: Footfall
Mostly I prefer reading to listening, but when I am sewing I find I enjoy listening to various podcasts. On the fairly new NPR podcast, Wild Card with Rachel Martin, for each round Rachel asks her...
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Perfect Poached Egg
I've written many instructions, but this next project pushes the boundaries of art, craft, reading, and creative writing. If you are not an egg eater, skip this one. It really is about eggs. When I...
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Art Quilt: Girl with Stars
This little project leapfrogged over the two sea star quilts I am working on, but it does contain the cutout portions from the reverse appliqué of stars on one of the quilts. I have been wanting to try...
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Sea Star Gift & Quilts: Asteroidea and Collective Good
I made a sea star weight filled with sand for a young friend's birthday after having heard he was interested in starfish and brittle stars and tidepools. It was a pleasant gift to make, being a fan of...
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Star 82 Review, Issue 12.3 Is Available!
The forty-seventh issue of Star 82 Review, the art and literary magazine I publish, is available now, free online, as always, and in a full-color, print-on-demand issue from Lulu. Since I have been...
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Art Quilt: Forest Bathing
This quilt began with formal ideas of color and shape and composition but grew from there. Sketches in my art journal suggested a long, thin quilt, a runner, with a center stem and geometric lines or...
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Art Quilt: Culcita Draconis
Long ago, perhaps 2007, I taught a workshop called, "Tiny Shiny Books," in which we embraced our inner sparkle and brought pearlescent acrylic inks to share and paint paper, then bound a book, adding...
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Art Quilt: Angling
It is curious to watch one's own process shift. Natural, I suppose, to keep exploring one's own interests. The stenciling feels natural to me, certainly hearkens back to my screenprinting days and is...
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Some Etiquette for Writers Submitting Work to Publications
Long ago and far away, well, not far away, when I was starting to send stories and poems to magazine publishers, I would buy a copy of Writer's Market, which mostly listed every magazine and a brief...
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Sustainable Watercolors: Beam Paints
During a September visit to New York we visited The Whitney, and of course had to exit via the gift shop. Â Everything is always lovely in art museum gift shops, but a particular display caught my...
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Art Quilt: Palm Reading
At the Little Free Craft Library that is up the hill from me and on my walking route, I always peek in and sometimes see something that grabs my attention. In this case it was a small book-as-binder of...
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Art Quilt: Interior Monologue
After a friend sent me a postcard of "The Letter" by Mary Cassatt, I became obsessed. The colors resonated with me, and the whole composition felt pleasing. As I studied it more I became aware of the...
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Art Quilt: The Letters
As I was working on Palm Reading, and Interior Monologue, I was also working on The Letters, the second of the two quilts inspired by the pattern on the woman's dress in Mary Cassatt's print, The...
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For SAQA Spotlight Auction, Mini Quilt: Go Fish
I came to making art quilts as my main work at a bit of a slant, as described in this post from 2015. When I realized this new direction was going to be more than temporary, I joined Studio Art Quilt...
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Art Quilt: Avoid Long Lines
Last year, my ongoing dive into nature books brought me back to the ocean, my favorite place, and a more focused look at the life within it, which includes sea turtles. Carl Safina's book Voyage of the...
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Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Print Show with "Unmoored" Quilt
We took a little field trip to Sebastopol, California, about an hour's drive from our house, to see the latest exhibit at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and to visit my quilt, "Unmoored" which was...
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Quiltlet: What Garden Is This?
A friend took a little trip to Big Sur, California and found, to her surprise, some textiles designed by the noted designer Kaffe Fassett, and she brought me a sample of one of his commercially printed...
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Nature-inspired Needlepoint Wall Hangings
 I came back to needlepoint in 2021, and wrote about it previously here. At that time, I made many small pieces into collecting boxes, which I built by hand from book board and various hand-dyed cotton...
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Art Quilt: To Protect
I woke one morning with the image of a vertical brown wing on a black background. Immediately, I painted it in my journal, then researched wing shapes, choosing an Osprey wing to draw in detail that...
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Art Quilt: Please Do Not Feed
A 1940s snapshot of my father's mother feeding a bear cub in Yellowstone National Park surprised, delighted, and ultimately disappointed me. It made me think about actions we take for our own pleasure...
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Art Quilt: Melt Away
Once again, a book became the catalyst for a project. Speaking on the radio about her new book [Amazon affiliate link], Immemorial, Lauren Markham talked about her anxiety about the world, her search...
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SAQA Spotlight Auction March 26 - April 5
If you like little bursts of color and art, consider checking out the SAQA Spotlight Auction that begins Wednesday, March 26, 2025. SAQA is Studio Art Quilt Associates, to which I donated a small...
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Art Quilt: Home
I feel most at home by the sea. So I am alarmed by the talk of mining the ocean. Haven't we humans done enough damage already to the land? Yes, we need resources, but surely there are more responsible...
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Process and Exhibit: Rainbow Roll, 2022
My quilt, Rainbow Roll was juried into the upcoming show, Hers, His, Theirs, Ours: Queer Expression! a collection of work celebrating gay pride by the LGBTQ+ community and their allies. This quilt is a...
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Art Quiltlet: The Gift
Sometimes it is satisfying to work on a small scale. The pieces stay within your peripheral vision, and if there is a blind spot you are sure to notice it sooner. The work can go a little faster as you...
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