My friend Emmie sent me the link to this group of European art quilters. What is it about European art quilters? Do you think their work looks that different from American artists? I have this book of Euopean art quilts that I got when I was just getting interested in art quilting, and I swear I looked at it every night for weeks.

I accidently left it outside one evening, and it rained. It was very upsetting to find a soggy mess on patio the next morning, but I carefully dried it out and can still look through all the pages although it is very warped.

Gabrielle asked why work in fibers? I’ve worked in lots of different art media, but finally I’ve settled here for a while, for several reasons.

1. I like to work big and to be able to lift my work by myself.

2. I like lots of bright color and can cover a lot of territory fast with fabric.

3. It’s fun.

4. It’s great to be able to roll your work up and ship off to a show overnight.

5. I love scrappy quilts. There’s something oh so funky about putting weird patterns together, maybe it gets the old synapses in the brain fired up.

6. See number 3.