Archive for the 'Finding Art in Self' Category



A Passion for Quilting

Published on February 1, 2008

  
Quilting became a passion for me when I realized the unlimited possibilities it offered me for discovery, for companionship, for entertainment, for study, for a peaceful activity while pondering, and, most important of all, to create something of beauty.
Many years ago I was talking with a friend who had just found her way out of [...]


Favorite Things

Published on January 27, 2008

As individuals we are ever-changing as we grow, learn, age, and live. Recently as I sat working I began to reflect on my favorite “things” and I realized how much those things have changed as time passes. 
When I was a young girl I sometimes thought about what I would take with me should I need [...]


NQA Quilt Conference

Published on June 13, 2007

 
 I’ve been away teaching at the 2007 NQA Quilt Conference in Ohio. It seems that no matter how many years I have traveled to teach quilting, I cannot seem to streamline the amount of time and energy it takes to prepare before a trip and to return to normalcy when I am home again. Thus, [...]


Environment and the Artist Within

Published on May 31, 2007

  I was born and grew up in St. George, Utah. It is a community set in a dry, sandy corner of southwestern Utah. Ages ago there were some violent upheavals of the earth and active volcanos that shaped it’s beautiful, raw landscape. Within 30 miles in different directions from it are wide empty places, Joshua [...]