a quilter’s journey
Posted in Art Quilts, Quilt Shows and Exhibits on Feb 4th, 2010
…has been juried into the next CQA Exhibit at University House Issaquah. Show dates: March 8 – July 11, 2010 22975 Black Nugget Road, Issaquah The reception is Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:00 – 4:00 pm I hope many of you will come.
Posted in Art Quilts on Jan 25th, 2010
Now on exhibit at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center/Seattle: Beyond Convention This spring, CQA offered the opportunity to make a quilt based on a poem, written by cancer survivors at Cancer Lifeline Seattle. Being a cancer surviver myself, out of about hundred poems this poem by Jean Joder is my personal favorite: Untitled A poet writing, [...]
Posted in Art Quilts on Jul 16th, 2009
Every city has its reputation. Seattle is well-known for its rainy days. Best Challenge and Best Interpretion of the Song Title.
Posted in Art Quilts, Charity on Mar 8th, 2008
4 Elements, 28″ x 28″ In 2007, a group of quilters organized a connection to the Fabric of Life organization. During a CQA meeting, we had the opportunity to buy hand-dyed fabric from Mali/Africa. This quilt is my contribution for the fundraiser auction for Fabric of Life, soon to be held (more info on this a.s.a.p.). [...]
Posted in Art Quilts, Quilt Shows and Exhibits on Mar 2nd, 2008
Fragrance I’m pleased to announce the CQA show “Gathering” at the UpFront Gallery, 48 Front St. N, Issaquah, WA Artwork will be shown from April 4 – 26th, 2008 Opening at the Issaquah Art Walk, April 4th, 6 – 9 pm, 2008 I will be present at the evening reception.
Posted in Art Quilts, Work in progress on Feb 27th, 2008
25″ x 25″ - finished block: 2 1/2 inches. A quarter of the size of Earth, Wind and Fire. The top of this year’s challenge quilt is pieced. All scraps in hand-dyes or batiks. Now, it’s all about the quilting. Again: Ship? What ship? Wat I wasn’t expecting, I truly enjoy to play with the word or motive, coming [...]
Posted in Art Quilts, Quilts on Feb 9th, 2008
Deadlines, deadlines, they sneak up so fast, tomorrow is another one: at CQA, – for a Small Quilts show in April at Up Front in Issaquah. Well, I’ll see if this quilt is going to make the move, it still has to run thru the jury process. I love the layers and circles, which look just as I imagine molecules of fragrances. [...]
Posted in Art Quilts on Feb 6th, 2008
Serendipity is my contribution to the APNQ Traveling exhibit 2006-08 It will be auctioned off at the APNQ Quiltfest Gala evening in August 2008. Anyone can bid on this quilt, check out the APNQ website.
Posted in Art Quilts on Feb 6th, 2008
It’s done! Finished! Looking for hours at the diverse greenery, and over and over again thru hundreds of my traveling daughters pictures, the title Nature’s Lace just fits. It is a small glimpse into the world of tropical rainforests, – this one is north of Cairns/Australia, where this kind of palmtree is native to. What’s [...]
Posted in Art Quilts, Work in progress on Jan 23rd, 2008
Two days of work. Still not even the blocks finished. One-hundred of them, 2 1/2 inches finished. Curved piecing in miniature. It seems to take for ever. The whole quilt won’t exeed 25 x 25 inches, that’s my goal. All fabric is scraps of either commercial batiks or hand dyes. It started with a 5 x [...]