Art

Jingle Jangle cover

A Foray into Improv Piecing

I wanted to learn something new. I chose to learn about improv piecing and took a class from Maria Shell. She was a student of Nancy Crow’s who has taken off in her own direction, and has many students and followers. The idea is to build pieced units and follow your visual instincts in constructing

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Getting into the weeds

Ok, sometimes I repeat myself, I admit. Unless I get tired of making something I might make multiple versions of the same thing?  Does anyone else do that? One image has been particularly prone to this repetitive activity. I had silkscreened a two-color image on a piece of satin rescued from an old wedding gown

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Berks in Stitches video

Here is a little video of Berks in Stitches, currently on display at Art Plus Gallery in West Reading. And, a link to the show: https://art-plus-gallery.square.site/berks-in-stitches And in case that wasn’t enough to pique your interest, an article in a local paper. https://smartnews.link/w/gcBs It has been really fun to meet friends and visitors to the

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Artist of the week, SAQA

On my last day, I want to give a shout out to my challenge group within SAQA. Karol Kusmaul was our founder and is our leading light and has recruited 11 members from 8 countries. We take turns issuing a prompt and we have two months to finish our quilt. We are in round two

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Artist of the Week, SAQA

I’ve done many small (mostly 5 x 7”) quilts while travelling. These have often included found objects from those places. I combined some in a piece entitled “From the Other side of the Wall,” which is currently travelling with Quilt National 2019. For the last two and a half years I have been working on

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Evening in Steel Valley

Day 2 SAQA Artist of the Week

I started transitioning from painting to art quilts while living in Pittsburgh. I was greatly influenced by The Fiber Arts Guild of Pittsburgh and the Fiber Arts International which the Guild organizes. I took my first art quilt classes from Sandy Kephart and Tina Williams Brewer in 2008-2010, and I was immediately off and running.

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