Sewing, blogging, and creative business.
I’m very excited to have finished this patchwork Progress Pride Flag quilt. The pattern is by Bobbie Gentili from Geeky Bobbin. All of the fabrics are scraps from my stash.
This was a fun project and the finished quilt is really bright and colorful. As part of this process, I also enjoyed learning more about how the design of the Progress Pride flag came to be.
"Raptor II (Out on a Limb)mixed media scultpure(Guinness bar towel, muslin, wire, polyfill, floral tape, acrylic paint, Paperclay, scrap wood) When I was packing all the pieces to take to Portsmouth for the show , it was this one that was the hardest to let go. I felt I should make another. Of course, itRead More →
Awesome news today. Two of my pieces, "Get Ready. Get Set" and "Nest of Thread VI" have been accepted to the juried show, "Ode to Cornell: What Would Joseph Do?" . The judge was Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Cheif Curator of the Peabody Essex Museum and a world renown expert on Cornell. I drove my piecesRead More →
These nine pieces will be on exhibit at the Three Graces Gallery in Portsmouth, NH, as part of a group show, "Things With Wings". The show opens this Friday, Aug. 10 and runs through Sept. 8. The opening party is this Friday from 5-8 pm. I hope you’ll come by and say hello if youRead More →
"disassembled" mixed media sculpture(muslin, embroidery floss, yarn, glass mason jar, wooden box) Charlie is frightened by this piece. I think it would be creepy if the doll were a baby. As she is now, I think beingRead More →
mixed media collage/ sculpture(rusted sheet metal, bingo chips, wire, flour sack, wood and paper ephemera on oval canvas) I found this piece of rusted sheet metal on our street two weeks ago while on a walk with Stella and another neighborhood mom and her littlest son. Isn’t it great! Like a topographical map or theRead More →
"Get Ready. Get Set."10" x 8" mixed media sculpture and collage(wood, ephemera, wire, matchbox, nails, flour sack) I like this piece. The other day I started collaging a rectangular scrap of wood and as it went along it started to look a bit like an urban landscape to me. It wasn’t quite big enough onRead More →
Nest of thread VII is the featured piece on the Three Graces Gallery website announcing the upcoming show, "Things With Wings." That was exciting to see this morning. I will spend the first week of August getting everything ready for the show and then I will be driving to Portsmouth, NH, on Monday, August 6,Read More →
"hunger 4 you"mixed media sculpture (linen, wood, wire, glass bead, paper ephemera) A few weeks ago I responded to a post on Craigslist – someone in my neighborhood was giving away a bunch of scraps of wood. I went over there one evening after putting the kids to bed and got a lot of greatRead More →
I made something new. And it’s not a bird. This piece started with the head. I had decided to make a doll and to try a head with little darts all around the face, but once it was stuffed it started looking more and more like a muzzle to me, suggesting a cow. So IRead More →
where 2?mixed media shadow box(fabric, wire, compass, dice and wood) This piece is appropriately titled. I really need to move on now to something new. I guess I’m a bit afraid, strangely feeling out of the swing of making things besides birds. I did some sketching last night and cleaned up all the little messesRead More →