Category Archives: Modern Art Quilts

Textiles Tuesday | 01.25.22

Schedule for my Open Studio Sessions in February & March 2022.

Fiber Friday 01

Algonquin BFFs. Stories by a Pou Wau Dancer.

We’ll Understand It Better Bye & Bye

We experience many mysteries in life that we can’t understand. To survive we need preserving steadfast faith and unshakable hope in Jesus as Christ.

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.”

Watchnight In Isolation 2020

New Year’s Eve is Watchnight for people of color born on the land of the Union States. Watchnight Ceremony is a healing medicine to send blessings to all who need them with much love, honor and respect.

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”

Walking Out Transformation

  Moments in life are full of unexpected changes. The older I get the less I understand about people and circumstances. I do know a few truths, one of which requires me to stay in the moment in order to walk out my purpose. Mat Randolph described four traps set for all of us inContinue reading “Walking Out Transformation”

Drawing & Researching a Design for a Modern Quilt

Freewriting + Geometric Quilt Designs + Memoir = Modern Quilt Today, I acknowledge and accept the reality of no longer having a mother, father, two grandmothers, one grandfather, two great-grand fathers and one great-grand mother. I was blessed to have had their love, support, teachings, stories, wisdom, songs, jokes, secrets about cooking, instructions about life,Continue reading “Drawing & Researching a Design for a Modern Quilt”