Improv Quilting
The Rhythm of Freedom: Improv Quilting and Antiracism
Antiracist ideas and actions are actually fundamental to improvisational process. To be an antiracist is to be a person who acts to liberate others and self. Improv encourages us to truly see, hear, and value others, which strengthens relationships and communities and encourages risk taking, innovation and change.
Embracing The Work of Anti-Racism with Improv
It’s a sign of hope when the unspoken comes to the surface and the floodgates are finally open. It’s a sign of progress and something to lean into. At the very least it has put a fire under my heels! The importance of holding space in the center for the most marginalized, has always been one of my core beliefs, and my commitment to live and act from this believe is stronger than ever.
Home Makers at Wave Pool
I am looking for volunteers, local to Cincinnati, with sewing machine experience, to help activate this participatory, patchwork improv installation at Wave Pool Gallery, Sep 14 - Oct 26.
patchwork improv road tour
Digger and I are going west this summer on a six-week patchwork improv tour. Catch us at Madison, Oakland, Bend & Fargo!
patchwork improv at the workroom in toronto
What could be more fun this summer than a week of patchwork improv quilting at the workroom in Toronto!
the rift between dreams
The limits and desires I’ve spun over a lifetime have manifested a 1904 three-story, red brick, row house, on a quiet dead end street in one of Cincinnati’s earliest suburbs. This version surprises me! Is this the dream I’ve been working towards?
home of one's own
In 1929, “A Room of One’s Own” was Virginia Woolf’s call for women to be educated and to claim space for their voices, their visions and their power as creators, citizens and leaders. Virginia was a contemporary of my grandmother’s era. Today I have SIX rooms of my own plus a kitchen and two bathrooms!
New Zealand & Australia Patchwork Tour
I never imagined that quilting would take me half way around the world some day! Sign-up for workshops, lectures, and demos down under!
Quiltcon East and BQE Schedule ~ Let's Flow!
Fellowship and good will to all attending, and for all at home, may you enjoy super creative and inspired studio time away from the fray!
Ruler Free Strip Piecing
Check out this video to see how much fun it is to cut strips ruler free! Try it at Glamp Stitchalot Nov 10-13. Booking new workshops in 2018!
Make Do Quilt - Curating Materials
The fun of making quilts with scavenged materials, is that you never know what will show up! - Giveaway winners announced!
a f t e r l i f e / it's show time!
My goal was not to speak through, of, or for the materials but to speak in conversation with them.
make do quilt challenge & giveaway
If 1 million active quilt makers in the US made one quilt from discarded materials this year, how many pounds would be spared from the landfill?
making do / unexpected juxtopositions
Both finds at Recology were curtains of sorts but with different narratives - red and white, purity and passion, milk and blood, virgin and whore
ruler-free patchwork at the alameda free library
Ruler-free patchwork will be demonstrated and performed on the spot according to suggestions received from the audience.
quiltcon 2017 workshops
I'm debuting three new workshops and a new lecture on flow at QuiltCon 2017. Fingers crossed you get your heart's desire on registration day!
make do with me
Quilt making is a model for reclaiming the legacy of making do at a critical time of cultural, economic, and environmental transition.
june mandala / making do begins
Making do with what's at hand is an accomplishment, a state of gratitude, a rhythm of attention, that feeds the spirit and restores the soul.