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Integrating the Parts

Integrated actions that draw on meditation lead the mind towards introspection. Gardening is a combination of physical work, experimentation, time, and observation. Garden observations brought to the sewing machine turns time into a rumination on the minute. Having fun experimenting on shorter, smaller projects.

Deconstructed Banana Leaf

An avid gardener understands the importance of ornamental plants. It’s the layered values beyond the aesthetics that draws me equally to gardening, and quilting. Towering banana trees shade the pond. Shade keeps algae from growing while providing a heat blocker for the aquatic critters. Human size leaves double as utilitarian privacy fence. Their gargantuan sizeContinue reading “Deconstructed Banana Leaf”

She Plays With Snakes

Pillow shams for the snake show at the Electric Shed Gallery, Nashville. I altered vintage quilt squares with my hand appliqued snakes. I have heard the vintage squares called both Dutch Girl, or Sunbonnet Sue. I picked them up at an antique store when I first started quilting. I held onto them waiting for theContinue reading “She Plays With Snakes”

She’s Got the Devil in Her

An Evening Around the Fire It’s like the song by Cedell Davis and Ayron Jones, “She’s Got the Devil in Her”. I wanted a quilt that changed as it was folded. One evening we were sitting around the wood stove in the studio. I was talking about my brother’s Mad magazines. When I was aContinue reading “She’s Got the Devil in Her”

High Priestess of Heart Rocks: A Quilt Making Journey

Maria is one of the high priestess that walks amongst us. Even those in such positions needs a moment of emotional support, and reassuring. Living so far away from a friend that needs a nurturing hand is difficult. Quilt making has become a popular art product for showing, selling, and promoting individual ideas. The coreContinue reading “High Priestess of Heart Rocks: A Quilt Making Journey”

Babes in the Woods

I was visiting Mount Saint Helens, Wa. On the drive to the visitor center, we past tall evergreens planted by Warehouser. Because they were planted, they made a repeated pattern that made me dizzy. It was almost artificial. The majestic evergreens looked like giant, powerful soldiers marching in waves of green. Back in Tennessee, IContinue reading “Babes in the Woods”

Finding Myself Within Patterns

My parents stressed the importance of taking care of yourself. This included skills like sewing, cooking, and growing things.  My father grew up on a farm in Arkansas.  At night the family came together and helped making quilts. It was survival.  My mother grew up making her doll clothes and baby doll blankets. She emphasizedContinue reading “Finding Myself Within Patterns”

The Circus Trip

The Circus Trip is technically a collaboration between my husband and I, but I have a hard time think about it like that. So much of myself goes into making a quilt. He had a sketch that I worked from. I altered it, and the amount of work it takes to sew a quilt top,Continue reading “The Circus Trip”