Category Archives: modern quilts

Adventure with ChatGPT and an artist statement

Posted on February 4, 2025 by admin

Here’s my first quilt of 2025 again. I’ve added two vintage plastic buttons from my mom’s stash. I finished this quilt on the same day I had to enter it in a juried show. I needed a fast artist statement, … Continue reading →

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First quilt finished in 2025!

Posted on January 30, 2025 by admin

This is the second cubist face I’ve done. It’s inspired by the paintings of Paul Klee and Picasso. I used fusible applique. There’s no piecing at all, just fusing and then I quilted over all the pieces. There’s a SAQA … Continue reading →

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I’m in two SAQA shows at once!

Posted on January 17, 2025 by admin

I mentioned the Prism Play show in San Diego in the previous post. The SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) show, Art Movements is opening in Folsom on 1/31/25. I’ll be at the opening. My quilt, My Cubist Friend is in … Continue reading →

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Improv city almost done

Posted on December 9, 2024 by admin

I started this quilt several years ago in an EBHQ class by Krista Hennebury @poppyprint, called Speed Date with Improv. This is the almost finished quilt top. I might add more white fabric to the top and/or black to the … Continue reading →

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Piecing letters

Posted on December 2, 2024 by admin

In a group I’m in we are making a group quilt with a quote on it. We divided up the words and I made these. It looks like some people in the group are using the same white fabric for … Continue reading →

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There’s nothing like a deadline for motivation!

Posted on July 3, 2024 by admin

I just finished this quilt! It’s for a SAQA show called Art Movements- making quilts inspired by art movements, like Cubism. When I was eleven years old I painted a self portrait that my art teacher said was reminiscent of … Continue reading →

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My quilt top from Sarah Goer’s class

Posted on November 6, 2023 by admin

I took a Zoom workshop with Sarah Goer on making an improv quilt with squares. Each of us cut out random squares of fabric- mine ranged from 7.5″ down to 2.5″. I decided that I didn’t want to deal with … Continue reading →

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Looking at a WIP (Work in Progress)

Posted on March 7, 2021 by admin

When does a WIP become a UFO (Unfinished Fabric Object)? I haven’t worked on this improv Log Cabin in many months. I was deleting photos on my phone and came across it. When I stopped working on it I was … Continue reading →

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Baby quilt continued

Posted on April 30, 2020 by admin

I decided that this baby quilt needed another color. I was thinking purple or hot pink. Some online quilters in the Lib-quilters suggested gold, to go with the giraffes on the back. I went with a cranberry. And here’s the … Continue reading →

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When your quilt isn’t working…keep working on it.

Posted on February 27, 2019 by admin

This was the hot mess on my design wall, a few weeks ago. My artist friend Lila Wahrhaftig looked through the photos on my phone. She liked the one with negative space, which was just slices separated by an inch … Continue reading →

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