I haven’t done much, really any, work with textiles over the last 6 months. Once I finished my house plants quilt my desire to work on anything whimsical dried up and I just wasn’t interested in doing anything but working on my photography. My textile work is very whimsical and quite frankly with all that’s … Continue reading
So you probably picked up on the fact that I have been struggling to find my creative art quilting mojo the last 6 months ago. I think part of the problem was that I was too hung up on trying to merge my photography with art quilting and I no matter what approach I tried … Continue reading
In my last post I talked about how my photography hobby had become a big part of my life and that I wanted to somehow try to merge it with my fiber work. I decided to start with a simple photo with a limited amount of imagery in it so I went back through some … Continue reading
I finally finished this latest quilt in my black and white series: It took me forever to stitch over all those black lines! I am glad to have this one done and it’s the last buildings themed quilt that I will be making for the time being and I will get to why in a … Continue reading
I recently got juried into the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and with that came an opportunity to have my work represented in their eight locations across New Hampshire and a solo exhibit this summer at the Eversource corporate headquarters in Manchester (more on this as soon as I have confirmed the dates). I’ve been … Continue reading
I’ve gotten quite a few questions lately about how and if I am still enjoying the Babylock Coronet long arm that I bought so I thought I’d do a blog post to talk about how it’s going and give you some things to consider if you are thinking about adding a long arm to your … Continue reading
I haven’t had much time for writing blog posts lately because I’ve been keeping my focus on being in the studio creating new work. The focus has paid off because since I posted about finishing my first quilt of 2019 back on February 2, I’ve managed to design and finish two more… I am … Continue reading
I put the finishing touches on my first quilt of 2019 yesterday: The Treehouse: 40″ x 50″ machine quilted/hand dyed cotton This is is my first piece quilted on my new Babylock Coronet long arm. I quilted the entire piece with the exception of the black lines on the Coronet. It was my intention to … Continue reading
After several weeks of practice I finally worked up the courage to use my new Babylock Coronet long arm on a new art quilt. Before I loaded the art quilt onto the machine though I spent a lot of time practicing and experimenting not only with threads, needles and quilting styles but also with machine … Continue reading
I did something today that I very rarely do: I rolled up a piece in progress, put it away and started a new one. Now I now that for 99% of quilters this is not that big a deal but for me – it’s a really big deal, like a huge colossal deal… I always … Continue reading
