Art & Quilts

  • The Unofficial First Member

    I am part of a group of women who are in the incubation stages of forming a place where women can meet and share their journeys.  While its focus or its intentions is to help women travel their personal journey… Continue reading

  • My Body and Mind are with Me.

    I have been working on a book that has photographs of my quilts along with some writings and it feels like it is a completion to my Art Therapy. Sitting with each quilt and writing about what wisdom it imparted… Continue reading

  • Ladies Day in Marquette.

    Our Ladies Day Trip, to see the quilts hanging at the Sweet Water Cafe. "Inner Joy" welcomed us as we entered… My girlfriend had suggested we go and see the quilts, and I am glad we did.  It was fun… Continue reading

  • By Feelings.

    I always knew that my quilting was Art Therapy, I just never knew how…it just was.  I never sat down and dissected the parts or even looked closely at the process, but rather was focused on the fabric, quilts and… Continue reading

  • Quilted into My Art

    Last week at Dial Help, I was given a thumb nail sketch of a few different disorders or what I guess we call Mental Conditions or ways in dealing with pain and abuse. One of the things we talked about… Continue reading

  • Arrived at a New Place

    Well, the day finally arrived. With some trepidation or perhaps curosity in how it would all go, I walked into the Sweet Water Cafe, with a carpet roll of quilts. A group of Weavers, were in the process of taking… Continue reading

  • All Her Stages!

    I found the black,white, red border fabric and was very drawn to it.  I then picked a few more that would accent it nicely…and added a few from my stash.  When I completed the stripes, I brought it upstairs and… Continue reading

  • My Journey in Fabric.

    I had to go and hang up the Storyline quilts….and with a cursory glance to get them in order, I was totally amazed…and this is without their personal one on one time with me.  Wow.  (I know it sounds odd… Continue reading

  • My Art Shows my Inner Changes.

    I had put off pricing my quilts, for the task seemed overwhelming. Today I asked a special friend of mine to give me hand, to see if we could find a respectable price that our local market would hold, yet… Continue reading

  • The Story of Becoming Me

    In reading the comments on the Extoots Blog, I marvel at the secrecy and how they hide their identities…while commenting freely about their religion; either why they stay or why they left. It is like they are talking about a… Continue reading