Hi! What about all the fabrics you love and those go-to colors that jump out at you? Whatever you've spent on them or how much you love them doesn't help whe...

It's not about doing a representational picture 'the correct way' because there is not one correct way. Your art is your interpretation of what you see. But ...

‘Let the fabric do the work for you' has never been more true than when you’re trying to make grass in your fabric landscape. Don’t waste time by using fabri...

Again I say, 'Let the fabric do the work for you'.

Hi Everyone, I will be continuing to make new posts for this blog, but to keep more communication going with you I will also be sending emails via my new ser...

I have been very hard at work creating my version of a water lily photo taken by my friend, Linda Lang. I remade the lily at least five times, changing fabri...

I've been having fun creating my realistic landscape online classes (still in progress) and have noticed the number 3 coming up again and again as I define t...

Happy Day! News from another addicted fabric art quilter! I thought you'd like to see the work of Kathy H from Michigan because she made this wonderful fabri...

I often work from photos, they give me lot of information about the scene which I probably wouldn't remember on my own. I recommend that my students work fro...

I'm kind of on a high here, and not just because Spring seems to have finally arrived in the upper midwest. Yes, trees are budding out, ice is off the lakes ...

Hi Everyone, I'm very close to getting some classes online for you! To make them the best they can be, I want to know what is meaningful to you. In advance, ...

Currently there is an exhibit by the Art Quilters Unlimited guild of Ft. Myers at the Cape Coral, FL library, in SW Cape, just off Mohawk Parkway. It is tho...

I make a lot of greeting cards which I sell at the Hirdie Girdie Gallery, Sanibel. In fact sometimes my stock is low because they take some time to do. Final...

What is The Quilter's Calendar? The Quilter’s Calendar is a brand new website that connects quilters, guilds and quilt teachers to each other using an easily...

Just want to remind you that AQS Quilt Week, Daytona Beach, will be here before you know it. One of my classes is already filled so I don't want you to miss ...

I hope you've had a great Thanksgiving, and now have some Me Time. So enjoy the goodies I've lined up just for YOU. If you're in the shopping mode, I have s...

In my class supply lists I specify 'no shiny threads'. The reason is that few things in nature are shiny. (The big exception is water.) I usually don't even...

Isn't this a lovely fall picture? How would you interpret it in fabric? You know that if you used plain white fabrics for the pumpkins, you'd pretty much hav...

Recently my niece, Fran, and I were going through fabrics at a quilt shop deciding which ones work well for fabric landscapes. It helped me realize what a wi...