3/24/16 3/24/16

march mandala / percolating

A trifecta of purification, SIMULTANEOUS transformation by fire, water, and air! What's percolating in your creative life this month?

1/30/16 1/30/16

january mandala / basics

These old hand stitching tools remind me that life is too short to be on the computer all the time.

4/5/15 4/5/15

Mastering & Innovating Patchwork Techniques

Innovation is something that happens when there is no instruction manual readily available. Improv Handbook giveaway on OkanArts.com.

1/6/15 1/6/15

2015 Focus ~ Listening

As the patchwork unfolds I will listen without agendas of planning, perfecting, or pleasing. I will allow the patchwork to show me what it wants to become.

11/29/14 11/29/14

20th Century Comfort Room

It's an interior space that speaks about the confinement of imagination. Installed at the Headlands Center for the Arts, 1998.

6/1/14 6/1/14

38,564 words and twelve new quilts!

It's as if I've been on a boat for the last year and a half and I've just been dropped off on a new shore in my life. Everything is new. Everything is YES! Many thanks to all who've been on the journey with me.

9/21/13 9/21/13

Piñata Anchor of Hope ~ Happy Birthday Mom

Remembering a geo-psychic, temporary public art project for the city of Durham, NC, that marked the beginning of urban (and personal) renewal.

9/7/13 9/7/13

improv from the heart ~ lessons learned in theater class

My improvisational patchwork process is getting a boost from taking an improv theater workshop. It also affirms my deepest values: discovery is the path to freedom, freedom is the path to connection, connection is the path to joy.

8/23/13 8/23/13

sorting scraps like the bionic woman... i wish

8/14/13 8/14/13

I Ching Modern Quilt

The pattern of this all linen quilt was created by chance through a random process of throwing coins as prescribed by the I Ching.

7/29/13 7/29/13

Patchwork Scrap Doodling

Scrap Doodling is a playful improvisational patchwork process utilizing fabric scraps without concern over the outcome. It's like drawing but better!

6/21/13 6/21/13

Summer Schedule

This rainbow of fabric reminds me of the lengthening and shortening of days. Happy Summer Solstice and a season full of fun and creativity.

5/9/13 5/9/13

Extravagant Generosity

This one quilt "Manna" brought in $16,000. I wonder about the power, the extravagant generosity of art to move people and rain bread from heaven.

3/11/13 3/11/13

a lucky BLUE bottle face day

I spied a graffiti Easter egg hanging in a tree. A down and out bottle face waiting there for me.

2/19/13 2/19/13

My Blue Bike Ride

Riding along the bay in East Oakland on a sunny Sunday afternoon in winter restores my rhythm of attention.

2/4/13 2/4/13

RGB Modern, 2012

I considered the space between warp and weft when piecing these curves with bias cut strips to create this modern improvisational quilt.

1/30/13 1/30/13

a lecture on modern improv quilting at Stitch Modern

I will be presenting a new framework for improvisational quilting that breaks free from the design/pattern/copy paradigm of traditional quilting: on Feb 5 at "Stitch Modern" a quilt show with special events hosted by the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild.