tumbling bratz (happy late birthday Thatch!)

This is a bag for Thatcher's birthday. Cyanotyped plastic dolls, red satin border, leopard velour lining, quilted. It is delicious. Lucy models. It IS a little big for her.

priorities? priorities!

It's hard to be a blogger when you also have to be a soccer mom, gardener, cook, employee, spelling coach, etc. Here is the first one, Walker, 13 years ago. It was so much easier back then. I even had time to tie dye!

a wonderful pattern

I've been experimenting with cyanotyping on different types of fabric. This will help me both break up the overwhelming blue, and hide the many imperfections that are a natural and unavoidable part of the blueprinting process. Laura Blacklow gave me this idea, and I've been having Linda at Blueprints on Fabric custom coat various calicos and solids. I had tried this on my last quilt in a limited but very successful manner. Now my coating days are over due to a limit of time and space. So anyway, Linda does a great job.

***This project is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council which receieves funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Legislature!!!

married three days

A second awesome couple. When I took this photograph, in Snider's Crossroads, SC, they'd been married for only three days. The bride is a fantastic singer. The I shot the image at a monthly "Pickin' Parlor".

a perfect autumn day

It was a beauiful fall Sunday in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. This couple stopped by the Kirby Town Hall in order to have their photo taken. They had dressed for the occasion and were starting a Sunday drive. They've been married for over fifty years.

I decided to make a few images stand alone on the Kirby Quilt (as opposed to being placed in a four square or nine square). Jean and Melvin seemed important enough to frame in red satin.

****This project is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council which is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts****

silver cows

Here's a piece of the great Kirby Documentary Quilt in process. After realizing that my original idea of photographing everyone in my small town of Kirby, Vermont was not going to work, I had the idea that I should aim to photograph every cow in town. These cows are printed on the almost luminous cotton sateen sheeting made by Blueprints on Fabric. It fairly glows. I bordered this image with silver velour from an old shirt worn by my son. The quilts of Gee's Bend were a revelation to me; they gave me the idea of using non-traditional quilting fabrics- corduroys, work clothes, old clothes, etc.


****This project is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council which is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts!****