When we were in France on one of our many walks exploring the city we came across this dog. He was tied to a sign and stood looking into the store where his owner disappeared. No matter how many people passed by his eyes never wavered off of the door. He was not one bit interested in anyone else. You have to admire that kind of devotion. I am sure that is how we are supposed to be with the Lord. Watercolor 13"x 12"
Monday, October 26, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
500 Art Quilts, Two of my quilts will be in this book!
Two of my quilts were selected for this book coming out in March of 2010. My quilt "Transformations and Crepe Paper Poppies" will be featured in the book!
An inspiring collection of contemporary work by Ray Hemachandra and Karey Bresenhan
500 Art Quilts
A beautiful new addition to the successful series.
A vibrant growing communtity of crafters has embraced quilting, and this outstanding international collection will inspire and captivate them. Juried by Karey Bresenhan, one of the most promonent figures in quilting, it presents
500 contemporary art quilts, made in fabric and other media, and showing diverse design,materials and techniques.
From their very inception, these quilts were destined for display rather than practical use,with an extrodinary quality of image, form, line and compostition.
An inspiring collection of contemporary work by Ray Hemachandra and Karey Bresenhan
500 Art Quilts
A beautiful new addition to the successful series.
A vibrant growing communtity of crafters has embraced quilting, and this outstanding international collection will inspire and captivate them. Juried by Karey Bresenhan, one of the most promonent figures in quilting, it presents
500 contemporary art quilts, made in fabric and other media, and showing diverse design,materials and techniques.
From their very inception, these quilts were destined for display rather than practical use,with an extrodinary quality of image, form, line and compostition.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Feastival at Houston
Lauretta told me about a blog that did a wonderful job at displaying alot ofthe beautiful quilts that were at Houstons Feastival this year. She also mentioned that that Susan Brubaker Knapps blog, bluemoon river, mentioned my quilt so I had to go check it out now! Thanks Susan for such a thorough tour of the feastival. Congrats on your new book and I hope we can meet soon!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Birthday Lunch
Today Dawn and Marta took me to our favorite Mexican resturant at the
Mission Inn. It was so great to just visit with them after Dawns
marathon and Martas vacations. That's a pomegranite margarita and it
was yummy. Thanks for a great birthday lunch!
Mission Inn. It was so great to just visit with them after Dawns
marathon and Martas vacations. That's a pomegranite margarita and it
was yummy. Thanks for a great birthday lunch!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Lone Pear
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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Flying home above the storms, the sunset was just amazing, the flight
was perfect, glad to be going home
was perfect, glad to be going home
Monday, October 12, 2009
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A project quilt very similar to the one our art quilt group did. The
description in the next post
description in the next post
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Houston here we come!
I am ready, I got everything plus more done in time thanks to all my sewing angels, Dee, Debbie, Karen, Shirley, Dawn, Randy, Marianne!! Thanks to all of you for helping to make my trip so perfect. I think one of the greatest blessing from having all these wonderful women here was that I got to visit with them and had such a great time just sewing with a friend. This is probably what the old sewing bee's were all about, sewing and visiting. I did manage to get this quilt thrown together, it also uses my fabrics and creates a non-western look, its called Bluebird Somersaults. I managed to remember to ship my "Sumi" artquilt to the Pacific International Show that is going on at the same time as Houston. I was afraid I might forget in all the rushing around that was happening here. I am leaving tomorrow and wont be back until next week. Be creative while I am gone!
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
It's Here
I know I have been sharing bits and pieces of my fabric line but now its all together on a info sheet. I wanted to post it for you to see the line in its entirety. I finished the quilt and need to bind today. It is going really well besides the fact that I keep pinching myself because I can't believe I am sewing my own fabric! Happy Tuesday, it is Tuesday right?
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Studio Tour Oct 3
My studio - OCT 3
Hi everyone, well today is the studio reveal through Quilting Arts. Everyone who signed up is supposed to post pictures of their studio spaces. I will be posting different photos during the day since I have two work areas now in my home. Although my husband says that the whole house is a work area before a show or during a project. It happens to the best of us, we nicely organize a space to sew or paint, but then we need just a bit more, so, we borrow some space from over there. Then that space is full so we take a tiny corner from over there! LOL Does this ring a bell with anyone else?
My studio is a converted bedroom, I have tile floors and a design wall for quilts. I always have a ton of projects hanging at anytime on my design wall. I hang some of my quilts and some of my artwork on the opposite wall. I love to have the walls full of "my" things. The room becomes an inspiration and motivation just being in there. It is my refuge, I love it. I have a TV also that allows me some company when I am working but I often find the family loves to just come and sit with me while I work. Isn't that how it always is, just like when the kids were small and followed us into the bathroom. I usually do not hang other art in my studio, only my own. Other art can be found around the house along with mine.
Since I also design fabric and paint for a living I love natural light. Although my husband installed all kinds of good lighting its just not the same. So..... in our bedroom we have a sitting room, it is a large area that we basically don't use and I love the view and the light from the octagonal windows that face the backyard. I love to sit and watch "nature" as I paint. The windows are tinted so often birds will play within inches of me painting. There is no TV here, the view, the area is enough, and I love this spot too. Combining painting, pastels and fabric didnt really work, I always had to clean up one before starting the other. I love having multiple project going at one time so this allows me that luxury. We have a big house and I am making the best use out of otherwise usless rooms.
Look for pictures throughout the day today sent from my phone. We are frantically working on quilts etc for Houston since my fabric just arrived yesterday. So I will post some of us working from varies spots.
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