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Yesterday, Terry and I went to hear Faith Ringgold speak and she showed lots of slides of her work. I was struck with how many of them were...

If I wanted MESSY quilting, that is certainly what I got. The photo doesn't even do justice to the messiness! I lost track of the numbe...

This is a tricky one for me! Here are the few thoughts I had since Kristin gave us her theme... I first thought of the nice little neighbou...

Everybody's posts have had me thinking a lot about community. Mostly, I have been thinking about how I would like a community to look v...

After my last post I wondered why a granfalloon was a "false community" and what makes a real community. A group of people is not...

I think I've chosen my direction with the 'community' theme. At first I thought this theme would be very challenging for me and...

I experimented with my stencils today and here are the results: As you can see, the water colour pastels and pencils went blotchy with even ...

This is a tile made by Motawi Tileworks from a design by Frank Lloyd Wright. I saw it in a shop downtown, and the image has stayed with me...

In response to the first comment on my last post - I always hope that this little boy will grow up to a a famous photographer despite his st...

My problem with this theme is that I had instant ideas but they are very big, thematic ideas and I have no idea how to get them contained in...

Nothing visual to show as yet. Just some thoughts about "community." My first thought was our cyber community, which most bloggers...

My initial thought was to make my "community" quilt a variation on previous "rooted" quilts I've made. Roots are a m...

When I found out that our new challenge theme is "community", I immediately thought of notions of connection and interconnectednes...

I've been thinking about community, and I keep coming back to the words group and sameness and how these can be positives or negatives. ...

This is the original version of Chocolate Love. I didn't like the quilting or the spareness of it. You can read more about it on my blog...