TWELVE BY TWELVE

Where am I now? That's  the question I was told to answer for this blog series. But you know me. Rebel to the last.... I think the mos...

Today was installation day at the European Patchwork  Meeting.  Here is our blank canvas: Here is hanging in progress: The installat...

The annual benefit auction is the signature fundraising event for Studio Art Quilt Associates. Your purchases help increase the recognition...

Leave My Land Alone my last 20/12 series quilt After the 20/12 series finished and my fellow Twelves decided not to do another group c...

The third round of the SAQA 2013 Benefit Auction begins on Monday! Four of the twelves are featured in this round. Check out these beautif...

A certain Twelve -- Helen Conway, to be precise -- is too modest to share her good news, so I will leap in to reveal her happy news.  Her ...

The exhibition tour of Beneath the Southern Sky is drawing to a close. The final venues are: Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK : 8-11 Au...

Following Helen's completion of her quilt, here's an updated mosaic of the Sweet mosaic:   And here is an overview of Helen'...

You might recall that I for the special 12/12/12 reveal I managed to produce only an insipid, contrastless, unexciting map.  You can read...

Beneath the Southern Sky is a travelling exhibition of 30 textile works curated by Brenda.  The exhibition includes Helen's African ins...

There have been many things about being a Twelve which have been 'sweet'. The friendships, the personal challenge and development, ...

One of the many joys of our online collaboration has been to observe how each Twelve has explored different techniques, materials and motifs...

I am on the last minute with my Sweet quilt despite knowing for a long time what I was to do. By the usual warped workings of my Google- a...

Using the Google It mode of design I wrote about earlier I quickly found that Mavericks was a 'Revue Bar' or 'Gentleman...

I do have a theme to my quilt that actualty links to a maverick subject but I think maybe I will qualify just because of my materials..... t...

In a private email to the Twelves, Deborah suggested that we post about how we get to our end design, especially as Maverick is not the most...

Congratulations to Helen . Her distinctive African figures feature on the promotional materials for the forthcoming Studio Art Quilts Assoc...

  It was an easy step to make to go from my last 20/12 quilt, 'Vilakazi Street', straight to urban mythology. My first step was to ...

Last week I went to see the We Face Forward exhibition of Contemporary African Art in the Whitworth Museum in Manchester. The first part how...