Book Art Video: Epictetus: Once Said a Stoic
When we experience pain or a loss, we instinctively seek comfort. Some find it in religion, the arts, food, substances, exercise, or many other things. In 2003, after our son died, we started reading...
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Art Quilt: We're Gonna Live in the Trees + Quilting Gloves
Sometimes a collection of materials becomes a series, of sorts. I still had scraps left over from Owl Construction, and Heartstrings and Division, all of which were made with extra pieces from Where's...
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Art Quilt(s): Waiting for Peace to Land
When the rain stops after forty days and forty nights, Noah first sends out a raven, then a dove (three times) as scouts, hoping for a time when it will be safe for his family and the animals to...
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Cretan Stitch for Cloth and Books and "Corset"
After finding one book in the library by Natalie Chanin and making my quilt, "Keystones," my tendency for obsession (call it research) kept me browsing the Alabama Chanin website and ultimately buying...
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Art Quilt: Unmoored
After an unusually big storm in the San Francisco bay area the end of January, a small sailboat, without sails, appeared, unmoored, at the water's edge near the Bay Trail where my friend and I walk....
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In the Presence Of: an Exhibit at Berkeley Art Center
I'm always (choose an adjective: relieved, happy, excited, pleased, inspired) when I visit an art gallery, center, or museum and see actual physical work obviously made by one (choose a noun: artist,...
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New Quiltlet: Kelp Portrait
It takes at least a week for the letterpress printed cotton to dry after I have printed, so while I was waiting I rummaged around in my hand-dyed cotton for inspiration and found a panel of kelp I had...
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Star 82 Review Is in Its Twelfth Year
Star 82 Review, the magazine I founded, publish, edit, design, etc. is in its twelfth year and still going strong! Issue 12.1 is available here. A link to the hard copy, print-on-demand from Lulu is...
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Art Quilt: Precarious
 It may have started with the word. I think it did. It may have started with the image of a bird perching on a very thin line. I knew I wanted to print the word in red. I researched perching birds and...
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Turtle Art Quilt: Time Release
A friend recommended the recent book [Amazon link] Â Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shellby Sy Montgomery, a nature writer I admire and enjoy. I find most natural science and...
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Art Quilt: On Turtle Time
Again, a shoutout to Sy Montgomery's book [Amazon link], Of Time and Turtles, and inspired by the work of the Turtle Rescue League, with the latest art quilt On Turtle Time. This sea turtle was once a...
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Nature Reading and Turtle Art Quilt: To Honor the Elders
Many of my ideas are prompted by books I have been reading. Or perhaps I read those books because there is something in the world that prompts my interest. In any case, I seem to process and express...
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Art Quilt: Fate. Luck. Chance.
Okay, little turtlings, you are launched! This is the third and final of the turtle quilts, a celebration of the hatchlings that come out from their nest in the sand to venture toward the sea and a...
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Art Quilt: A Way, and Wen Redmond's Inspiration
I've been interested in the art quilts by Wen Redmond since I saw two small ones at Studio Art Quilt Associates fundraising auctions. They are beautiful and mysterious and have a slightly wistful...
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Art Quilt: Fire Line: Do Not Cross
On a recent trip to Los Angeles I could not go the quickest way, I-5, because a fire was too close to the connecting freeway, and they had to close it. So I took the scenic route, US-101, which tipped...
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My Work Travels Without Me: News from the Studio
Here's what is up. I have actual quilts traveling or being shown now and in the near future. And I have some quilts that have been included in literary magazines this year, another nice acknowledgement...
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24-Hour Scrap Quiltlet: Outlier
After finishing Fire Line: Do Not Cross I saw it was time to clean up the workspace. I had some scraps pinned up that I liked, that I had dyed, and that I had not been able to incorporate into any...
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Happy B-day for a friend who likes Spelling Bee & Hexagonal Paper Piecing
A few years ago I followed Jude Hill's blog, which was very inspiring, full of interesting images and stitching, and it was there I first saw how she hand-sewed hexagons together, also known as English...
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Art Quilt: Fire Break
After the quilt "Fire Line: Do Not Cross" went its own way, becoming something beyond and quite different from what I had envisioned, I wanted to revisit my initial interest and wonderment at the line...
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Textile Balls
Seeing a variety of exhibits, websites, and catalogues can be a source of inspiration for both large works and smaller explorations. After stitching regularly for many years, I am drawn to anything...
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