Late one winter night, I was walking in my neighborhood park, thinking sadly about how wantonly we are treating our beautiful planet. These ...

The title of this quilt describes the inspiration and process of its design, and also a great way to approach Life. Serendipitous - occurri...

A flash of inspiration birthed this quilt.  It celebrates the wedding of two of my daughter's super super good friends.   They married l...

  Hi, everyone!  I'm announcing a new video on my YouTube channel.  It's a bit of a tour of my quilting studio and fabric stash. You...

Back in August 2017, my husband and I traveled to Paducah, KY.   The city shared the happy coincidence of being the home of the National Qui...

 I came across this on Instagram (@hayfestival) a couple of weeks ago: These words were written by author Arundhati Roy.  They are the concl...

  Wow!  This post marks the completion of a 10-year quilt project! Ten (10!) years ago I started a series of quilts , my own personal c...

  This is my newest art quilt - I didn't start out to make a topical quilt.  I was just playing with some gorgeous swatches. I have ment...

  This is a challenge project from the Just Wanna Quilt Facebook group.  We each got 2 packets of swatches from Free Spirit Fabrics, and ...

So, having just blogged about my entry in the Eye Contact show yesterday morning, this post about the exhibit showed up in the evening on m...

An exhibit called Eye Contact: Creating A Connection has recently opened at the Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg, VA.  The exhibit r...

  I am happy to announce that my daughter, aka my darlin' daughter, just finished making a gorgeous quilt.  She's always been an ...

  This year, maybe because of our super long and wet spring, the fungi group has flourished in my yard and neighborhood.  Such variety th...

I wrote about the Social Justice Sewing Academy in a post last fall, and showed these first two blocks I worked on.  You can hear a great i...

I made a small polka dot themed quilt as part of the copyright study at Just Wanna Quilt .   The basic question is to find the line betw...

  A Facebook group called Tree Sisters put out a call for 12" blocks to be joined into a quilt to be displayed next year, the "...

I finished this little quilt a few days ago.  It is now en route to the Sacred Threads exhibit, to be held in Herndon, VA, July 11-28, ...

  I must admit that the quilt repair process can get kind of boring when it gets down to the actual sewing.  Once I figure out what needs...

The Evanston Art Center is once again hosting an exhibit as part of the Evanston Made arts month in June. I'm just finishing up my ent...

I took this photo of my design wall last March, to celebrate being able to walk around enough on my healing foot to get back to pacing aroun...