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Art Quilt: Study for a Finding
 It started with a shell fragment. A piece of mussel shell found on my walk by the Bay. We hadn't been on the complete loop since before the pandemic, keeping the walks short for a year and a half. But...
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Art Quilt: Hello Chickadees
 Just one more, and just one more. And I still have quilt sleeves to sew and boards to saw. This one was pure joy; I used some Japanese fabric I had bought on a whim from Kimonomomo and pieced it in a...
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Little Free Tiny Art Gallery
 The Little Free Library movement, has been growing and moving since I last wrote about it here in 2012, and checked back in here in 2013, and 2014 here and here. In my area there is a Little Free...
View ArticleBook Art Video: Driftwood & Roots
 We were a little adrift in 2006. We had moved out of our house to redo it and were living in an apartment not too far away. And we got very sick that summer. I didn't have full access to my press, but...
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Nature on Loan: Art Quilts at Piedmont Center for the Arts
 If you are local to the SF Bay Area, I hope you will stop by my exhibit at Piedmont Center for the Arts. I will be there on the three Sundays the gallery is open, September 5, 12, and 19 and would...
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Writing, Naturally
 This past year I somehow convinced myself that I was only making art and not writing because then I wouldn't have to confront how I really felt. Keep it all just under the surface. I could make work...
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New Quilts: I Like A Kea (1) & (2)
 After reading The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think I fell in love with the Kea parrots of New Zealand. One of the videos I found featured them playing with a...
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Ready, Set, Show: Nature on Loan Installed
 Nature on Loan, my show of art quilts, is up and ready for up close viewing starting at 11am on Sunday, September 5, 2021 at Piedmont Center for the Arts. They will be holding several concerts out on...
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Reverse Appliqué Again: The Lone Kea
 It has been nearly a year since I wrote about my first attempt at reverse appliqué, and I hadn't found a project since The Plague. The Fire. The Fall. that needed it. While I was trying to work out my...
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Art Quilt: The Hidden Dog
Continuing the series of the Hidden Animals, the next art quilt is The Hidden Dog. As mentioned in previous posts: in Jewish mysticism there is a story of thirty-six righteous people in the world,...
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Following the Stitching Line: Machine and Hand
At the walk-through of my art quilt show last week, a friend asked how I decide whether to machine sew or stitch by hand. I answered that it depended on what else was in the quilt, and overall I was...
View ArticleWalking Through Nature on Loan: Exhibit Videos
Art on the wall is better than art stacked up, art in boxes, and art in closets, and now that my exhibit is over, I will have to stack the quilts back up on the bed, save a few that found other homes....
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Indivisible and Octopus
Although my work is not overtly political, still I am always thinking about power and its imbalance and the frightening divisions in the United States. Weaving together our connection with the animals...
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Art Quilt: The Hidden Coot
For several years now, a friend and I have regularly walked by San Francisco Bay, stopping to pause, breathe the cool wind, listen to waves, and watch and snap photos of birds. We've begun to notice...
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Art Quilt: Indivisible (Liberty and Justice for All)
Recently, when I print on paper I have been throwing some cloth onto the stack, just in case a textile piece occurs to me. I looked at the little stack of printed cloth; seven octopuses in a bright...
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Art Quilt: Through the Fog
The fog used to be synonymous with San Francisco. More recently, it has become a state of mind during the pandemic. But I love the tangible, grey weather fog, and it has started becoming more visible...
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Art Quilt: Catching Up
After my September art quilt exhibit (see video!) at Piedmont Center for the Arts, I was given a multitude of colorful thread and a 1963 Singer sewing machine that belonged to the coordinator's late...
View ArticleBook Art Video: Fair Entry
I remember thinking this was a humorous book, made in 1990. Inspired by vegetarianism and California drives back and forth between Berkeley and Los Angeles on I-5 and the cattle lot in the center, I...
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Cutting and Tearing Paper and the Binder's Fold
It has been a long time since I did a post like this, but recently I received an email asking about the details of folding and cutting paper, including the binder's fold. First, I want to stress the...
View ArticleBook Art Video: She Said I Like Almost Anything from a Distance
Long ago and not far away I worked in an art-supply store in Berkeley. And when I left, my artist-colleagues gave me a monetary gift to make a book, which became She Said I Like Almost Anything from a...
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