White Light Night

Annual event in Baton Rouge.  Here are the lights that caught my eye:

Published!

Check out the January, 2014 issue of American Quilter!  My article is on pages 88-89!  Here's what to look for, but the resolution in this photo is not quite good enough to read the article.

Quilts at the Houston festival 2013

exhibit: "Raining Cats and Dogs"

exhibit: "Hands All Around"

exhibit: "Tactile Architecture"

exhibit: "In the American Tradition"

Gus the Theatre Cat

"Gus is the Cat at the Theatre door...."
In appreciation of Edward Gorey & T.S. Eliot, who understood cats as well as any human.
26 1/2" H x 26 3/4" W
Made for Patience Quilters' Crayon challenge (asparagus)
Cottons; machine pieced, appliqued and quilted with words to T.S. Eliot poem.

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What's For Dinner?

Life is Short:  Eat Dessert First!

Quilting energy comes from that extra food group--the chocolate one!  Here is a whimsical look at a few of my favorite desserts, primarily constructed from silk drapery samples and remnants.  I did most of my image research on Pinterest, leading at least one friend who follows my boards to wonder about the sudden proliferation of dessert recipes, most of them chocolate.  Just research, but if you feel like cooking, I'd be happy to taste-test any of them, with a nice cup of tea, of course!

15 x 24 inches, cotton, silk, and synthetic fabrics. Fused and machine quilted.This piece was not accepted for the exhibit in Houston, but I do have 4 other quilts and 2 photos that are there this week!  You can see them if you scroll down to my previous posts.

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September Competition

Delivered today!  Exhibit opens September 6 and runs through November 30 at

Alexandria Museum of Art

On Their Way to Houston!

Here's Looking At You!

I shipped 4 quilts to the International Quilt Festival yesterday; they are on their way!
The title of each quilt is below it; on the bottom line is the Special Exhibit it will be a part of.
Today's task is to tweak a fiber piece a bit and hand deliver to the Alexandria Museum of Art for the September Competition show, opening Sept. 6. Update! Two photos were selected for the Eye of the Quilter exhibit, also at Quilt Festival! Photos and exhibit map below!

 Humble

Blue stars indicate the exhibits my work was selected for!

Before and After

Ugly fabric that looked like a road kill peacock, dyed by a member of a dye list I am on:

Knotted & overdyed:  Still peacock, but tame!

Colorful!

I've made 3 quilts recently, and none of them can be published on the web yet due to entry rules for various events.  Two of them WILL be published in a book next spring!  The book is tentatively titled Dare to Dance:  An Artist's Interpretation of Joy, and the author is Mary Kerr.

Pleinweave, made several years ago from fabric I spray-dyed especially for this quilt, and very carefully cut and pieced to keep the original color flow.  The pattern is a traditional basket lattice.

I made several smaller pieces from the leftover dyed fabrics, and more black, of course.

Update:  Look for two of my quilts at the International Quilt Festival in Houston this fall in the "Tactile Architecture" and "In the American Tradition" exhibits!  Big happy dance!
Second update:  Look for a third quilt in  the "Hands All Around" exhibit!  Holy cow!

Link to Bloggers' Quilt Festival.

Cornered!

I've made 3 quilts recently, and none of them can be published on the web yet due to entry rules for various events.  Two of them WILL be published in a book next spring!  The book is tentatively titled Dare to Dance:  An Artist's Interpretation of Joy, and the author is Mary Kerr.

So, here is an older, but popular quilt, Cornered!

Detail of Boris the black cat, who is now 13 years old.

Detail of Moose the Orange cat, who is now 8 years old.

Detail of Oslo.  She died last summer and is buried next to Boris's sister Natasha and Rorschach, who lived with us from 1988- 1999.

More information on this quilt and how it was made here .

Update:  Look for two of my quilts at the International Quilt Festival in Houston this fall in the "Tactile Architecture" and "In the American Tradition" exhibits!  Big happy dance! 
Second update:  Look for a third quilt in  the "Hands All Around" exhibit!  Holy cow! 
2nd update:  Look for THIS quilt at IQF Houston in "Raining Cats and Dogs!"
Link to Bloggers' Quilt Festival!