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Almost Time to Turn the Page…..
Dear Friends, Thanks and welcome to all of you who have signed up for this blog in the last few weeks as we are going through such a huge transition. Some of you who follow my personal page on Facebook know that – in the midst of selling the warehouse, selling the business, moving eQuilter to a new warehouse with new owners, packing up my eQuilter office, then loading up my studio to ship to our new home in Washington state – I had a knee injury that really has put me out of commission. I was unable to walk for a week, needed a walker for a couple weeks,…
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More Big News!
By now we hope you have read a press release detailing the sale of eQuilter to the new owners: Collin and Christina Stewart. Today Paul and I went to visit eQuilter in its new location, which is about 15 minutes NE of the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. It was great to see our staff running the business with the new owners in this new space. Such a huge relief to us to know that this couple, and our staff, will steward the business into a new chapter. But today I am sharing some more big news. As you know, Paul and I are ‘retiring’ so I can return to a…
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Two Quilts for Durango
I have just returned from Durango Colorado, where I attended the opening reception for the SAQA “Balance” exhibition. My art quilt “Stardust Mothers” is in this exhibit, which will travel to other venues over the next couple years. “Balance” will be at the Durango Arts Center until August 30, 2025. Originally this piece was made for Sacred Threads in July 2022. Then it traveled to a quilt festival in France, another quilt festival in Birmingham U.K., and then spent 9 months at the DAR Museum in Washington DC. It was part of my solo gallery at the Kyoto Quilt Festival in March this year, and now will travel with “Balance”.…
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The Children of War – for Sacred Threads
You are probably feeling the same as me – sad and stressed by the state of the world – particularly the wars that are continuing to destroy the lives of innocent children in Gaza, Israel, Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen…and the list goes on. There is no justification for a war that kills and maims children, and destroys their families, their homes….their future. The only way to deal with my frustration is to speak out, and so I’ve planned this piece since the start of the year. I knew that Sacred Threads was the right exhibition to properly share my message. In April I had just started to lay out this 40″…
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Stardust Mothers – Now at DAR Museum
Whenever people see this piece, they have lots of questions about my process, so I thought I’d share the story with some images. I lost my mother in November 2023. On my last day in Houston at the Quilt Festival, I got the call that she tested positive for Covid. That was Friday…I flew back Saturday….she was gone late Tuesday night. She had a long slow decline and was near the end (before Covid took her), so I had a lot of time to prepare. Me & Mom, circa 1968. During the last year of her life, I thought a lot about the generations of women in my family. I…
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Life in the Arts
I have identified as an artist as long as I can remember. I was told that I was an artist as a child, and I accepted it as truth, because that is what I loved to do. In school, I was not just doodling in class. I was sketching in class, practicing drawing a wide range of subjects in the margins of my math assignments while sitting quietly, shyly hiding under the radar. I remember feeling competitive in our brief art classes. I wanted to be the best artist in the classroom. By Junior High I had read The Agony and the Ecstasy (biography about Michelangelo) so many times the…