Work In Progress: Earth
Earth quilt top completed September 2021 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by weaving design. This quilt is the first in the series New Harmony: Earth, Fire, Water. July 2025
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How Exiting Social Media for Good is Saving My Life
I’ve always had a fraught, ambivalent relationship with social media. I’ve switched platforms, taken extended breaks, but never “broken up” with it for good – until now. So, if you’re reading this you’ve found me in the only place I’m going to be online. I can’t promise how much or how often, because my primary […]
Read MoreRecalibration
After an intensive year creatively, and personally – it seemed like a good time to take a break and turn back to the roots of what I love most about quilting – color, geometry, and tradition. I am making Recalibration simply for the joy of making it, in hopes that this same joy will be […]
Read MorePoor Man’s Damask: A Hymn in Four Part Harmony
Re-imagined weaving patterns provide endless inspiration. Can hardly wait to start this series! Soprano Bass Tenor Alto
Read MoreMonsoon
I recently had the pleasure of accepting and completing a commissioned piece for a couple of Kansas City art collectors and friends of mine. I am typically hesitant to accept commissions, but was honored by this one. The piece is titled Monsoon and was inspired by my experience of Arizona monsoon rains while visiting in the […]
Read MoreMay Day (You Are Here)
original sketch, completed on December 10, 2017 I began working on the piece May 1, 2018 in Ellensburg, Washington two of the foundational checkerboard squares front and back of one the diagonal squares my progress as of the end of June 2018 (1/4 of the finished top, lower right corner) As of August 5, 2018, this quilt […]
Read MoreGewandhaus
A year ago, or so, I started envisioning architectural installation quilts – deconstructing and subverting the notion of what a quilt is, while simultaneously celebrating the convention of a quilt as comfort and shelter. I believe place has an inevitable and indelible imprint on creativity and the forms of its expression. I grew up surrounded […]
Read MoreMeans of Living
Continuing in the vein of my concentric square obsession, this is the hand-colored sketch for my next large-scale (~8x24ft) piece, Means of Living. This piece will primarily feature Robert Kaufman chambray indigo and Danish STOF yarn dye wovens, with a linen binding fabric from my trip to Shanghai in 2012. I am enjoying making the 33″ concentric squares for […]
Read MoreDreamer (started late November 2016)
Currently working on another colossal scale quilt (~8.5 x 24 feet), working title Dreamer. I’ve had the idea for some time. I made a sketch while vacationing on San Juan Island in Washington state in early November 2016. I started mostly with fabric from my existing collection, as well as several pieces given to me by […]
Read MorePoppy Field (aka Cross-Quarter Embrace)
March 2014 I was recently thumbing through a book about weaving when I came across a design that really excited me as a potential quilt idea. I wouldn’t make the quilt in black and red, but this is just a simple way of remembering that basic concept so that I can later have the fun […]
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