Pieces and Resistance

At Quilt Surface Design Symposium each year they have a delightful challenge. This year it consists of the theme of four colors -- green, ...

This ain't the first time I've said, implored really, that you should live with your art. If nothing else, hang it up and enjoy it...

Nancy Valle's studio at the Anderson Arts Building in Rochester, N.Y. was the site of our portrait show. Sunday she hosted a paint par...

I could not wait to see how his looked on the wall, so spent the weekend on the facing and sleeve. It is a square 77", whic...

Each side of this blue quilts is about 6 feet, so adding the sleeve, that's about 36 feet of hand sewing. The sun was out, I was happy...

A big 48" T-square that Home Depot markets as a drywall measuring tool is my go-to for squaring up my finished quilt. I use the ...

I've got my fabric ready to be soda-soaked for teaching in Florida. But first I want to sew on a tyvek label -- here I'm using an ...

Squaring up is tedious. But I do it. Cleaning and oiling is not a picnic, but I do that too. Finally quilting, ah, the quilting. That is t...

The sun finally came out today, just long enough to me think I was warm while I shoveled. I wasn't. Glad the snow forced  me to stay...

These full moons (and tonight is a special lunar eclipse variety) make me melancholy. I think of how I've befriended nature -- squeeze...

I'm near the piecing end of this garden. It took all the tricks I knew to get the parts together, and in hindsight, could have used a ...