A selection of quilts from Quilt National ’13 is showing at the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, from January 30 through April 13, 2014 …
Retro Thread Rewind
A while back I wrote a post about collecting old wooden spools. Why does any collector collect? I don’t know the answer to that — …
Keep Your Head in the Game: 7 ideas for keeping your mind on creative projects
After hearing the phrase “Keep Your Head in the Game” at a meeting, I spent the weekend thinking about what it meant to me. I …
Occupied with Octopi, part two
Or perhaps I should have said, Preoccupied with Octopi. This is the second of two blog posts about making a big quilt featuring PaMdora and …
Occupied with Octopi, part one
On a street corner outside a noisy concert, a friend pulled out her phone to make a call. I was shocked to see the front …
Timid about Sketching in Public?
Kerry wrote me, “my friends and I took a brief online course with Jane LaFazio…about sketching/watercoloring in public…we did just fine…most probably because there is …
Hands, Tentacles, and Monsters
Celebrating Labor Day by working with my hands today. Sometimes I wish I had extra hands, but these won’t really be much help. While up …
Old Irons, New Fires
Had to get the antique irons out for this one. Some patterns that I draw are either so big, or the dimensions are such that …
Kimonos and Patchwork
Kimonos have always fascinated me and influenced my work. Not as a piece of clothing, but as a form of expression. If you look at …
The Next Step
Luckily I have a great technical support team. Russ is my main got-your-back guy. He coaxed the big printer into producing a pattern for my …
