Quilting Journey 4 Healing

Indigenous Intensive Art Residency begins tomorrow at UBC in Okanagan. I’m one of the participating artists.

Quilting Journey 4 Healing

Designing and creating a memory quilt. Follow me on Youtube @artbycarola | Indtagram @fiberartbycarola

Quilting Journey 4 Healing

My quilting journey for healing begins at Flyway Farm & Forest in Spillimacheen, BC

African American Quilt Circle of Durham Celebrates 27th Anniversary

Fabric surface design for quilters including indigo and natural dyeing, fiber reactive dyeing, mono printing, screen printing and commercial digital printing at Spoonflower.

New Beginnings: Quilting To Heal

Using fabric from my indigo dyed cloth stash, along with my clothes that were rescued from my eviction, I’m creating new quilt designs about The Blues of “Winter In America.”

Life Lessons Learned Through Quilting

Motivational Sunday This is the first blog in my Sunday series about life lessons I’m learning through quilting.  My insights started at a young age when I was sitting under the quilt frame in Yat’s front room on Daniel Hill.  The Daniel Hill Community Quilt Frame lived with my Yat (Mattie Burnette Randolph) on SpruceContinue reading “Life Lessons Learned Through Quilting”

Poo’miikapi Textiles Tutorial 02: Naatowápo’takiis Show Quilt Pattern

Fabric description and requirements for Otahpiaaki Community Show Quilt.

Poo’miikapi Textiles Tutorial 01: Naatowápo’takiis Quilt Pattern As A Quilted Blanket Shawl

Preparing fabric to dye for Sacred Circles Community Healing Quilt.

My Reflections On The Process of Improvisational Quilting

My analysis of the process is to think music. Listen to the electric Blues guitar of Jimi Hendricks perform Hear My Train A Comin’. (Web Link) Problems to Solve. Fabric puckers. Because we are cutting against the grain and bias of the fabric, puckering happens. Be flexible and open to trying experimental solutions. Make itContinue reading “My Reflections On The Process of Improvisational Quilting”