Seeds And Friends

The Gallery Opening Was a Success!

Don't worry you have a few more weekends to get there:

Seeds & Friends

You are invited to take a beautiful drive to see remarkable work at the Barnes Gallery, Leverett Crafts & Art Center

14 Montague Road, Leverett 01054

Artists Opening Reception - Sunday, September 8, 2013, 1-4 p.m.

works by Nina Compagnon, Sally Dillon, Rebecca Fricke, Martha May, Martha Robinson, Flo Rosenstock, Deborah Slavitt, Margaret Stancer, and Nancy Young

The show will be open Saturdays & Sundays from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 

September 7–29, 2013

Here are the friends whose work hangs in this show.  

Sometimes there is only one thing to do and that is to drop everything and quilt.  But where do you drop everything and who will step on it?  Will everything just go away or will it get moldy?  Will someone pick it up for you?  What if it is gone when you come back, then what?  I need to drop things and quilt.  Maybe tomorrow I will do that, but only if everything will let me.  Check out my show at Henion (through June) and have the best dounut in Amherst -just dounut touch!

Pelot's Bay

I quilted it. It took me five months to get to it, but it is done. Only once. I thought maybe I would do one for myself, but instead I concentrated on this one. I grew up on North Hero (Vermont) which is an island in Lake Champlain. My childhood home faces west and Pelot's Bay is just over the hill from my parents house. Some time in elementary school a new family moved in to a house tucked onto the shores of the bay and our families became friends. Now years later, my friend's mother has recently begun heading south for the winters and she asked me if I could make her a quilt to help her remember the bay in winter. For years my family and I have gone ice skating, fishing, and swimming in the bay. In fact, we still do. Now it is my children who can skate for miles up and down, around the ice fisherman's holes, in and out of the beaver swamp. I was honored to be asked. The quilt is from a bird's eye view because I wanted to show the length of the bay and the banks. Every year the water freezes differently and the ice changes many times over the course of the winter. I tried to capture the variety of ice colors and textures and I think I came close.

The TWIST Fair is coming!

I'm almost ready. Are you? Come check out my new pillows, table runners, wall hangings and more!

June 2011

The Art on the Common http://www.chd.org/index.php/bbbs-events-view/events/amherst-crafts-on-the-common-fair-6.html is happening July 9th and I've just kicked into production mode. Shrinking my ideas down to 12 x 14 is a challenge after spending my spring thinking big. The photo to the left shows my latest whole clothes portrait of my inlaws on the Cordoba Pass in CO. Yes, PopPop really does like plaid.

But now, like I said, it's time to move on to smaller things like my cupcake people and making dozens of cards which you can see here: http://bedscapedesigns.com/gallery/quilted_paper_cards/

Back to work!

My piece "Let Them Eat Cake" got in to this exhibit in Eastern MA - check it out if you can!

Two Series Yet to Come

When I am finished making cards and runners for my December sale I am going to do more of these...

And these....

And I won't worry about how much they are going to cost or where I am going to hang them. There's no sense in that, now is there? First make, then place, then sell or not.

PEace.