Creating my Olive Green Tree of Life has taught me about the power of waiting, things develop in the artistic process. Often, the most beautiful creations take time to emerge. I encourage fellow quilters and artists to embrace your journey, no matter how long it takes. Your ideas will germinate and flourish, leading to art that is uniquely yours.

Upcycled Fabrics - Endless Shades of Orange - Upcycling means transforming discarded materials into something beautiful and useful. This concept has always resonated with me, as it embodies creativity, sustainability, and resourcefulness. I am challenging myself to see how many different things I can create with the orange fabrics that I am finding.

Something practical this week, summer crumb patchwork placemats. I found some summer crumb pieces and I decided not to store pieces anymore. Rather to create finished items and keep if I need, and gift the rest - Life is too short to hoard.

As an art quilter, nothing brings me more joy than seeing the excitement on my students' faces when they dive into the creative process....

Creating art has always been a refuge for me, a space where I can express my feelings and ideas through colors and textures. The students had asked me to create a technique for an art quilt but they didn't want to have to iron at all. So I created my Strip Collage Patchwork. This method is wonderfully freeing, requiring no ironing or precision. Instead, it invites a playful approach to assembling fabric pieces into beautiful creations.

Bringing creativity to life through fabric is always a thrilling experience, and this year’s class has truly outdone themselves with their sunrise landscape quilts. Each quilt represents not just a project, but a personal story woven through the strands of fabric. The sewing studio has transformed into a vibrant gallery of colors, where each piece shines with its unique character.

Creating, learning, and collaborating are at the heart of what I do in the sewing classes. This blog post will explainhow I involve my students in crafting a Simpler Sunset Landscape Quilt Tutorial, which I hope will inspire both new and experienced quilters alike.

My student created a sunset wave landscape mini quilt this week. This time I did hide my fabrics that I had planned to use for a wave...

I created my Wave Sunset Patchwork Tutorial a while back.

Today is a grey day, fitting for working with grey fabrics to create a grey slow stitched wave landscape.

After receiving many requests from people who don't sew by machine I have created a Wave Landscape Slow Stitching Tutorial.

Sometimes I tend to overthink about a piece. After doing that for a few weeks, yesterday, I told myself to just begin creating

I have been working in pinks and creating a pink progression of art quilts in the last week. They are each 25 x 30 cm.

A twilight wave landscape patchwork pocket. The studio moved and I am just beginning to get settled again.

I was curious to see whether I could use the technique to create a planned art piece.

More of the creative process - quilting the wave landscape patchwork piece

Now that I am happy with the colors, I found most of what I wanted, I can begin the part of designing and color layout.

I colored the first version of the sketch of my next technique. I wasnt happy with the end result. It didn't tun out as I had "seen" it.

The studio has moved and now I can begin to work on all the ideas that have been floating around in my head for the past 2 months.

A few weeks ago my students asked me to teach them collage art. I don't buy any special tools or materials