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May, 2005
Teaching and Lecturing:
On May 10th I presented a lecture
to the Village Square Quilters in Scarsdale, New York. I have a lot of
friends who belong to the guild, so there were plenty of people to hang
out and chat with before and after my presentation. An absolutely
adorable group of children from a local school came to the
meeting to show some of the quilts they had been making in school . . .
so cute!
New Work:
I've started a new piece that's
kind of different from my latest endeavors. It incorporates some of the
silk pieces that my friend Susan brought home from Italy, some of the
upholstery fabric my friend Judy got from her sister-in-law the
decorator, and some small blocks that I had stamped with stamps I'd made
myself some two years ago. Working with the silk isn't as
difficult as I'd imagined it would be . . . I'm happy with how it's
turning out, and I'm trying out some satin-stitching-as-quilting. Let's
see how it goes!
April, 2005
Teaching and Lecturing:
This is a busy month for me!
On April
5th I gave my lecture to the Hudson River Quilters in Croton-on-Hudson,
New York. The Hudson River Quilters is a small group that meets at the Croton library once a month. The
library has a gorgeous meeting space. It's a semi-circular room with
a stage set up on the straight edge, and large windows all around
the circular edge. The projection screen drops down out of the
ceiling with a push of a button, and the sound system is amazing, no
buzzing, no wires -- incredible. There are about thirty-five guild
members, it's a fairly new group made up of pretty traditional
quilters, and it seemed to me as if each and every one of them came to the meeting. Among them were Barbara Lerch and
Kay Fowler, two lovely ladies who gave me my very first quilting
lesson almost fourteen years ago! They sat in right in the front
row of the audience, beaming with pride, applauded every quilt,
sighed, ooo'd and aaahh'd, laughed at every little joke, and
altogether made me feel absolutely wonderful. What a thrill it was
to have them be present for this latest chapter of my quilting life!
On April 9th I went
to Pearl River to present my workshop "Free Motion without Fear" to the
Heritage Quilters of the
Hudson Palisades. It was held at the Pearl River Public Library, in
the community room. The room was spacious and well-lit, and there was an
inspiring display of inlaid marquetry done by local artists around the
edges of the room. Beautiful! My students were very well-behaved (they
giggled when I told them that!) and enjoyed themselves very much. I
enjoyed myself, too . . . teaching always gives me such a thrill! The
group treated me to a lovely lunch at a local pub, and as always, I was
sad to bring the workshop to an end. Here are some candid
photos of them, hard at work.
March, 2005
Teaching and Lecturing:
On Saturday, March 5th, I taught
the Magic Textured Scarves workshop at my guild's Super Saturday
event. I first came across the technique last year when I attended the
International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, and was fascinated with
the idea of creating lacy, almost knitted-looking scarves with thread
and a dissolving stabilizer on a sewing machine. I figured it would
appeal to quilters who either didn't like to knit or didn't know how.
And it did! All the women in my workshop had a great time, many of them
went home with a finished scarf (some even washed out the stabilizer in
the kitchen sink during the workshop so they could model their creations
immediately!) and I thoroughly enjoyed myself, as I always do with the
great members of my guild! Super Saturday is always such a fun event . .
. I wish it would happen more than just once a year!
At the next guild meeting,
five of the workshop attendees surprised me by wearing their creations
to the meeting, and then modeling them up on the stage during the
meeting's show-and-tell portion. It was so gratifying for me to see them
wearing their beautiful scarves! I felt as proud as a new mother!
On March 12th, after a
six-inch overnight snowfall, I drove into Manhattan to give my lecture
"The Flowing Line" to the
Empire Quilters Guild. I knew it was going to
be a very good day when I found a parking spot right out front. Imagine,
a parking spot in Manhattan! The Empire Guild holds their meetings at
the Fashion Institute of Technology, where my oldest son was a student a
few years ago, so I felt right at home. Besides the familiar
surroundings, the guild members made me feel very comfortable and
welcomed me with open arms. It was a wonderful day! I owe many thanks to
my dear friend, Benedicte Caneill, Empire's "Quilter of the Month", who
first suggested to the Empire Guild that they hire me, and then helped
me set up my equipment and even walked to the drugstore with me to buy
an extension cord. She is my honorary "agent extraordinaire!"
On March 21st, I traveled to
Rockland County to give my lecture to the
Heritage Quilters of the
Hudson Palisades. Among the audience were a few old friends who are
also members of my guild, and it was great to see them! They made me
fell right at home. Even though I battled a nasty sinus infection, the
lecture went well, and the ladies enjoyed looking through all the quilts
I'd brought along. I look forward to seeing many of them again when I
teach a workshop for them next month.
New Work:
I've been working furiously on my new piece, "Spirits of the Mountains."
I've already entered it into my guild's show in May, and I must meet the
deadline! Work, work, work!
Exhibitions and Shows:
On Monday, March 14th, I met with the other members of
The Salon Seven to survey the
Mount Kisco Public Library, where we will be having our very first joint
exhibition from June 1st to June 30th, curated by
Susan Schrott. The opening
reception will be held on Thursday, June 2, from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. The
space is great -- it's spacious, well-lit and I know that we are going
to have a great show. All of the members are very excited about it, and
emails are flying fast and furiously with all the preparations!
Travels:
On Wednesday, March 30th, Linda Schoenfeld, Georgia Heller, Susan Schrott and I piled into Linda's car
and drove to the Heritage Quilt Show in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We had
such a great time! We ate lots of food, bought lots of fabric, gabbed a
lot and had fabulous show-and-tells each evening in our pj's . . . what
fun!!! I can't wait until next year, when we do it again!
February, 2005
New Work:
I always try to participate in my
guild's annual challenge. This year, the NSQG challenge was "portrait"
and so I decided to create a portrait of my beloved departed German
Shepard, Ava. I've been missing her terribly, and so I thought that
perhaps by working on a portrait of her, I'd be able to come to terms
with losing her. I'm still terribly sad and lonely without her, but
working on the portrait was comforting . . . . almost a way of spending
some time with her. If you'd like to take a look at the work in
progress, click here.
Teaching and
Lecturing:
On February 5th, I taught my Quilting
Up-Side-Down workshop to twenty members of the Northern Star
Quilters Guild. I had such a good time with my friends, and made some
new ones, too. Everyone had a great time, and I'm looking forward to
seeing many of the same faces again when I teach a different workshop on
Super Saturday, next month on March 5th. That workshop is entitled
"Magic Textured Scarves." We'll be creating a beautiful,
one-of-a-kind textured scarf from odds and ends of yarn and decorative
threads. Using a new product called “Ultra Solvy” as a base, and then
choosing either machine fed or free motion stitching, this makes for a
really easy, quick, fun and satisfying project. In fact, I expect each
participant will go home with a finished product! I can't wait!
On February 1st, my lecture
for the Hudson River Quilters of Croton-on-Hudson, New York was cancelled due to a
ferocious snowstorm. I'm disappointed to have to wait . . . the lecture
was re-scheduled for April 5th, which seems like such a long time away!
Exhibitions and Shows:
My quilt, "The Golden Skirted
Dancers" will be shown as part of the exhibit: Fiber Revolution
at the Belskie Museum. It's at the Belskie
Museum of Art and Science, at
280 High Street,
Closter, NJ 08624, 201-768-0286. The exhibit will run from
February 6 through the 27th.
January, 2005
Teaching and Lecturing:
I've spent the last couple of
months concentrating on developing my new lecture, entitled: My Love
Affair with the Flowing Line. I'll be presenting it to some local
guilds and groups in the coming months. See my
teaching schedule for the exact dates
and locations.
Although writing the lecture
was a true labor of love, it was an exhausting affair that took many
months and lots of help. I am eternally grateful to my good friends,
Benedicte Caneille, Beth Carney, Judy Gignesi, Laura Goldstein, Georgia Heller, Karen Maru,
Jeri Riggs, Linda Schoenfeld, Susan Schrott, Barbara Sferra and Joyce Sullivan for their
advice, encouragement and support.
Without them, their immense patience, and the tireless feedback they
provided, I'd never have completed the presentation. My thanks to all of
you, my dear friends, for helping me to realize this dream of mine!
Exhibitions and Shows:
The new Fiber Revolution
postcard lists the shows and exhibits that Fiber Revolution will be
having in the next few months. I will be participating in a number of
the exhibits, which will be in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania. Please visit the
Fiber Revolution website
for the exact dates and locations!
November, 2004
Exhibitions and Shows:
On Monday, November 8th, I went
to the Yonkers Riverfront Library with my friends Susan Schrott, Beth
Carney and Jeri Riggs, to hang our quilts in the Cultures of
Westchester: Folk Art Visionaries show. We had a great time
hanging the quilts in the library's beautiful "Yonkers Room"
which overlooks the Hudson River. What a spectacular view! While we were
working on the hanging, Ernie Garcia, a reporter from the Journal News,
interviewed each of us about our work. Imagine my surprise when an
article entitled: Folk
Artists on display in Yonkers
appeared in the Local section of the Journal News on Tuesday,
November 9th, and I was extensively quoted! I think that my quilts
depicting ancient African women really crystallized the diverse cultural
aspects of all the pieces in the show, and that was the reason that the
reporter chose to include my comments. Still, it was quite a thrill! Of
course, I ran right out to the corner deli to buy up all their copies of
the paper!
I received word that my
piece Ancient Trance Dancers was juried into Form, Not
Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie. It was one of the 44 works
by 44 artists chosen among 470 quilted works submitted by 183 artists.
I'm especially pleased to have been accepted into this show since the
judge was the very talented Arturo Alonzo Sandoval. The exhibit will be
held at the Carnegie
Center for Art and History in New Albany, IN (812) 944-7336 between
January 14 and March 19, 2005. The opening reception will be held on
Friday, January 14, 2005, from 6 to 8 pm.
Travels:
On Wednesday, November 3rd, I
flew to Houston with a group of fellow NSQG guild members to attend the IQA show. My roommate, Barbara Sferra, and I had a simply exquisite
time. There are really no words to describe how deliciously wonderful
the show was . . . a feast for the senses! Every evening, a group of us
met to have a show and tell of the wondrous things we'd purchased. Click
here for a group picture of some very
happy ladies! While we were there I met
some absolutely wonderful people, including a new friend, Carol Soderlund, who I met while visiting the SAQA booth. I really enjoyed our
conversation. It was such a thrill to meet someone who's familiar with
my work and had such kind things to say! I also met quilters from all
over the world -- Holland, France, Puerto Rico, Italy, Japan and many
parts of the US, including a lovely group of ladies from Kentucky who
insisted that I pose in front of my Pink Fat Ladies for a group portrait
with them (one of them wanted to know, in her adorable southern drawl,
"Now, how did you get into my bathroom to see me when I was naked,
darlin, 'cause them there fat ladies look just like me!"). Oh, I
laughed and laughed and laughed, and I didn't stop laughing and giggling
and buying from the fabulous vendors and being amazed by the gorgeous
quilts on display until we came home on Sunday. It was a marvelous
vacation, and I just can't wait till next year's show so I can go back
there again!
October, 2004
Exhibitions and Shows:
Four of my art quilts will be
displayed at The Blue Door
Gallery Presents: CULTURES OF WESTCHESTER: FOLK ART
VISIONARIES. The exhibition, which will include the works of
over 30 living folk artists living in the New York metropolitan area,
will be at the Yonkers Riverfront Library, One Larkin Center, Yonkers,
NY, across from the train station. The telephone number is:
914-337-1500. But the very best news is that two of my pieces, Ancient
Trance Dancers and The Pink Fat Ladies were chosen for the
exhibition's promotional postcard! I didn't have any advance notice
that my quilts would be on the postcard, so I was shocked when I opened up
the envelope they arrived in! The
exhibition will be held from November 12 - December 30, 2004, and the
reception will be on Sunday, Nov. 14, from 2 pm - 4:30 pm. The five
pieces I'll have in the show are: The Fat Ladies II, The Fat Ladies
After Dark, The Red Lady, The Blue Lady, and The Golden Skirted Dancers.
September, 2004
Publications:
The Fall 2004 issue of Quilting Arts
Magazine contains a feature article entitled "In The Spotlight:
Elizabeth Rosenberg of Yorktown Heights, NY." It's all about my
African Rock Art series, how I was inspired to create them and what I hope to
achieve in the future. I am so thrilled that a magazine as drop-dead gorgeous
as Quilting Arts has included me in their pages. There sure is a lot of
jumping up-and-down going on around here! So many friends, former students and
quilting buddies have called, emailed or send cards and letters congratulating
me on this tremendous achievement. I hope that this article will open many
doors for me in the quilt world . . . I'm looking forward to meeting lots and
lots of quilters and sharing my love for what can be done with free-motion
with them!
Exhibitions
and Shows:
The Pink Ladies
were accepted into the International Quilt Festival in Houston. I'm so excited
that I'll be able to see it hanging there! I'm very much looking forward to
going to Houston as a spectator (i.e., civilian not selling anything!). I'll be traveling with my guild and expect to
have a fantastic time!
June, 2004
Exhibitions
and Shows:
Ancient
Trance Dancers will be at the Martucci Gallery of the Irvington
Public Library from June 2nd to July 28, 2004 as part of the Fiber
Revolution exhibition. On June 2nd I helped my fellow Fiber Revolution
member, Jeri Riggs, hang the show. We had a lovely time together deciding which quilt looked best where. (Mostly,
though, I just handed Jeri the scissors, pins and fishing line when she asked
for them, and let her have the honor of climbing up and down the ladder!) The Martucci Gallery is a
beautiful space. I think the display looks great, and the people who attended
the opening on June 5th agreed. We had a nice afternoon at the opening,
surrounded by great art created by members of Fiber Revolution, and I got to
meet two more FR members: Carolyn Lee Vehslage and Jutta Halpin. It was such a
treat to put faces to the names in my mind!
Teaching:
I taught a workshop to the Croton
Pointers on May 27th. I enjoyed meeting
them, and teaching them how to care for their sewing machines. They were very
interested in the information I gave them about needles and thread! They are such a lovely bunch of women!
Guild Activity:
I agreed to take on the position
of Vendor Chairperson on the Northern Star Quilters' Guild Quilt Show
Committee. I will begin serving on the committee just as soon as the files are
handed over. I'm looking forward to contributing to the guild that's given
me so much in the past. It's going to be fun to get involved again!
New Work in Progress:
I've begun a new series, though I
haven't abandoned the last one. I think that are at least a few more "Fat
Ladies" left in me! But for not, I'm working on a series that is based on a
different rock engraving in Africa. The first one in this new series, The Skirted Dancer,
is complete, and I've already begun the second in the
series. The African rock art that inspired my pieces was photographed by
David Coulson, a brilliant photographer and Chairman of TARA
(The Trust for African Rock Art. The engravings of the Skirted Dancer are located just below the
summit of a ridge in Niger, Africa. They stand about five feet tall (shorter
than the fat ladies, but still a pretty impressive size!). Although the age of
the original engraving is unknown, the painting is recent. Locals visit the
site of the dancing women to color the engravings with clay and charcoal,
hoping to tap into the engravings' ancestral power. During the civil war in
the 1990's, the engraving was used for rifle practice.
These ancient dancing women speak
to me without words in a way that feels primal. I can't understand exactly
what they are saying, but I certainly can understand their joy. With my art, I
hope to express my own perception of joy in the feminine experience. Even as I
sit at my computerized sewing machine, far removed from the heat of the
African sun, womanhood is not so very different for me than it was for the
dancing women of Africa so many thousands of years ago. To see photos of Two
Skirted Dancers in progress, click here.
May, 2004
Exhibitions
and Shows:
Ancient
Trance Dancers was awarded a first place ribbon at the Northern
Star Quilters' Guild annual show, A World of Quilts XXV, held on May
1st and 2nd, and another one of my quilts, The Pink Fat Ladies,
was awarded a second place ribbon in a different category. I'm
thrilled!
The show was
great this year, as it always is. NSQG puts on a show that is, in my opinion,
the very best guild show on the east coast! (It's MY guild, so I can say
that!) All the quilts in the show were quite spectacular, the speakers
fabulous, the vendors were superb, and it was so much fun seeing all my
good friends and meeting new ones!
Demonstrations:
I was asked to give
a thread-painting demonstration in the works-in-progress room during this
year's NSQG show, and was happy to oblige -- I do love an audience!
Despite the limited space and very hot room, we all had a great time
resting our feet and talking about my favorite thing -- thread! I enjoyed
answering some very good questions from the peanut gallery. My good friend
Judy Gignesi did a fantastic job of organizing the Work-in-progress
displays and all of the demonstrations -- what a gal!
April, 2004
Teaching:
What a good time I had
teaching my Freemotion Without Fear workshop at the City
Quilter earlier this month! Such a nice group of women came to class,
and the new, larger space is beautiful! I'll be teaching there again in
August, giving a workshop on different methods of machine appliqué.
March, 2004
Teaching:
I'm looking forward to
teaching my Freemotion Without Fear workshop to a group of
quilters from the Evening Star quilt guild in Garden City, Long Island on
Saturday, March 6th. I plan on bringing my digital camera along so I can
take some pictures and upload them to my website in the workshop section.
UPDATE: Their
are no other women on earth like those from Long Island -- they are simply
the best! I had such a great time with this fabulous bunch of women! The
digital camera experiment didn't quite work out (it was a new camera and I
guess I just didn't give myself enough time to get familiar with it!) . .
. oh well, trust me, they were all very beautiful, and funny and welcoming
as well. There was some talk about having me come back to give them
another workshop, and I hope they really meant it, because I'd LOVE to go
back "home" to Long Island and spend some more time with those
wonderful women!
February, 2004
Exhibitions
and Shows:
The Fat Ladies After Dark was selected to be displayed at
Considering Quilts 2004: Fiber Artists Explore the Quilt Form, in New
Smyrna Beach, Florida. The show will run from April 3 to May 15, 2004, at
the Atlantic
Center for the Arts at Harris House. Located across from the
picturesque Intracoastal Waterway, the venue provides an impressive
setting for the exhibit, which is becoming known as one of the finest
small fiber art quilt exhibitions in Florida!
Andrew
in Montauk
will be part of the ART QUILTS: ELEMENTS exhibition at
the Page-Walker Arts & History
Center in Cary, North Carolina. The exhibit runs from April 30 to May
31, 2004. An artist' reception will be held on April 30, at 6-8 pm.
The Blue
Lady
won two ribbons at the Northern Star Quilters Guild's annual
challenge: Reflections. It was awarded third place for Best Use of
Embellishment and third place for Best Use of Non-Traditional Material.
The quilt will travel with the other challenge entries to the Quilters
Heritage Celebration in Lancaster, PA, where it will be included in a
special exhibit from April 1-4th, 2004.
January, 2004
Exhibitions
and Shows:
Spring
Rain, New Growth
and Elect-Trickle Banana were
juried into the Quilters Heritage Celebration in Lancaster, PA. The
annual event will be held April 1-4, 2004.
Sale:
The Three Fat Ladies was sold to Carolyn Lee
Vehslage. It has become a part of Carolyn's growing fiber art collection.
I'm very excited to have a piece included in Carolyn's collection, where
it lives among some very illustrious company!
December, 2003
Exhibitions
and Shows:
Mini Spring
Rain
was selected to be displayed at the Road to
California Quilters' Showcase at the Ontario Convention Center in
Ontario, California. The conference/show will be held January 15th through
January 18th of
2004. The judges for the show will be Cindy Walter, Bonnie Browning and
Lynn Kough.
Publications:
The Fat Ladies
will appear in Magic Patch™ magazine, a European quilt
publication, along with other quilts that were a part of the the Wrapped
in Cloth: The Human Figure in Textiles exhibit. I don't know any more
details yet!
November, 2003
Sale:
The Fat
Ladies
was sold to Charles Shafer and Mary Fitzgibbons, of Rio
Rico, Arizona, during the Wrapped in Cloth: the Human Figure in
Textiles exhibit at the Tubac Center of the Arts in Tubac, AZ. I
received a lovely email from Mary telling me that her husband, Charles,
purchased the quilt as a gift for her on the occasion of their 30th
wedding anniversary. Mary sounds like a lovely lady. I'm so glad that the
first, and most special quilt in my Fat Ladies series has found a good
home!
October, 2003
Publications:
Festival of
Lights appears on page 38 of the
November/December issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting™ in
a lovely article entitled "Glory Quilts." The author, Linda
Hungerford,
interviewed me for the article some time ago. I think she did a wonderful
job of condensing our very long telephone conversation into a cohesive
description of my pattern company and how it began, and its a lovely
tribute to the memory of my father-in-law. My thanks to Linda, and to
Marianne Fons, who was just great to deal with -- and to my dear friend,
Mary Gay Leahy, who convinced Marianne to visit me in my booth at Houston
Quilt Market last year.
Exhibits
and Shows:
I just received
word that two of my quilts, Art Nouveau Tree and Spring
Rain, New Growth were accepted into the Quilts=Art=Quilts
exhibition at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, New York.
I'm so honored and thrilled to have two quilts in this very prestigious
show! The exhibit opens on November 1st and runs through January 4th of
2004.
The
Website:
The tweaking is
never done! I've added a new feature to the
Patterns
page, allowing customers to buy patterns using PayPal. So far, it's
working out very nicely, making shopping a lot easier and much more
efficient. It lets me get out those patterns much more quickly, with a
whole lot less turn-around time!
Teaching:
I'll be teaching my
most popular workshop, Free Motion Without Fear, at the new
location of
The
City Quilter on April 17th of 2004.
September, 2003
Publications:
"Spinning
Dreidel," a bright, colorful and easy little quilt that I
designed, appears on page 46 of the December issue of McCall's Quilting
Magazine. Beth Hayes, McCall's editor, asked me to design a Hanukkah
quilt for the magazine when I met her last fall in Houston during Quilt
Market. Many thanks go to my friend, Meghan Carroll, who cut out all those little
coins, helping me to meet the deadline and get the quilt to Colorado on
time! The bi-monthly magazine is on newsstands now -- How exciting!
Exhibits
and Shows:
Three Fat Ladies,
along with 29 other quilts by the group, Fiber Revolution, will be
shown at the Ellen Traut Collection Gallery, 635 Farmington Avenue,
Hartford, CT ( 860-233-1938), Sept 3 - Oct 31, 2003. The Opening reception
will be held on September 5, 5:30-8:30 pm.
Elect-Trickle
Banana has been accepted for the exhibit "Quilts for Art Sake
II", October 3 -26, 2003. There will be a gala Opening Reception
on Friday night, October 3rd from 6-9 pm at the Makeready's Gallery 214
ArtSpace, 214 Glenridge Avenue,
Montclaire, NJ 07042.
Mysterious
and Second Trial Mystery have been accepted into Art Quilts
VIII: A Cut Above. This national exhibition at the Chandler Center for
the Arts (250 N. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, Arizona) will be displayed from
Sept. 24 - Nov. 8, 2003 with a reception on October 3, from 7-9 pm.
The Fat
Ladies
was accepted into the Tubac Center of the Arts exhibition "Wrapped
in Cloth - The Human Figure in Textiles", October 11 - November
16, 2003. Night Gardening and Andrew in Montauk were
accepted into the on-line exhibition. The website http://www.TubacArts.org
sale opens on the First of September. Please visit! An opening reception
will be held at 3 pm on Saturday, October 11th at Tubac Center of the
Arts, 9 Plaza Road, Tubac, Arizona 85646 (520) 398-2371. Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 10 AM - 4:30 PM, Sundays 1 PM - 4:30 PM. Closed
Mondays. ** Extra special news ** -- The Fat Ladies was chosen as
the featured quilt pictured on the postcard, gallery poster and the
website for the on-line exhibition of Wrapped in Cloth.
What a thrill! It's the first time one of my quilts was chosen as the
featured quilt -- and printed on the postcard for a show -- I am so
excited!
Teaching:
I'll be teaching a
six hour workshop, Free Motion Without Fear for the Evening
Star Quilters of Garden City, Long Island on Saturday, March 6, 2004. I'm
looking forward to meeting them!
August, 2003
Publications:
It was such a huge thrill to
receive my September issue of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine in the mail
and to see my quilt, Strawberry Fields Forever
right there on page 60! It was in very good company, with beautiful quilts by,
among other talented artists, Ann Fahl and Katie Pasquini Masopust.
Teaching:
I'll be teaching
two class this fall at the Country Quilter: Free Motion Without Fear and a
Threadpainting class with a new sample featuring beautiful
autumn leaves. See my Workshops page for more information
about these two classes.
Changes and
Additions to the Website:
As everyone who's
ever maintained a website knows, the work is never done . . . It seems as
if there is always "just one more thing" that has to be
done! I've changed the organization of my gallery pages, and I'm
much happier with the way all the quilts look now. Please drop me a line
and let me know what you think! I've also added a
section to my home page that lists exhibits where my
work is currently being shown.
Exhibits
and Shows:
Speaking of places
where my work is being shown, I've discovered that it's a whole lot of
work (almost like a full-time job!) to organize all those entry forms,
deadline dates, shipping dates and show and exhibit schedules! I wish I
had a secretary! I think I've finally come up with a system that
works for me -- it involves a very, very large calendar with lots of room
to note which of my art quilts will be where, when . . . yellow and
bright pink highlighter lets me know when each quilts need to be shipped,
and when it will return home. If only there was a dedicated computer
program I could use!
During the
month of August, my quilts I Heard It Through the
Grapevine and Electrical Banana will be
exhibited at the Mancuso Brothers World
Quilt & Textile - On Tour - New England at The Center of New
Hampshire Hotel, 700 Elm Street, Manchester, NH 03101
August 14 - 17, 2003. More exhibits are planned for the fall -- my
quilts will be traveling a whole lot more than I will!
June, 2003
A New
Direction:
Spring was a season of change for me, both personally and artistically
-- and it was all good!
After more
than six years of working as a part-time staff member at the Country
Quilter in Somers, New York, it was time to make a change, and so at the end of May,
I sadly gave notice. I'll miss so many things about working there . .
but, change can be good . . . I'm looking forward to spending my new found
"extra time" in my studio creating art quilts!
Also last
month came an invitation to join Fiber Revolution, a group of professional fiber artists
from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. I'm excited and honored to be a part of this
group
of thirty talented artists. Please visit our beautiful new website at: http://www.fiberrevolution.com
This
invitation has lit a fire under me, so to speak. I feel invigorated, and
I'm eager to get started creating lots and lots of fiber art! So,
artistically, I feel as I've entered a new phase. If you've really been
paying attention, you'll have noticed that the quilt on my website's home
page looks different. It's brand new, though it's based on last year's
April journal quilt. I've called it: Spring Rain, New Growth. It's
symbolic of the new outlook I have on my art. For now, at least, I plan to
spend my creative time working on art that make me happy, that gives me
joy, that is pleasing to me alone. I've decided not to worry about whether
anyone else will like my work. We'll just have to see where this new
direction takes me!
May, 2004
Exhibitions
and Shows:
Ancient
Trance Dancers was awarded a first place ribbon at the Northern
Star Quilters' Guild annual show, A World of Quilts XXV, held on May
1st and 2nd, and another one of my quilts, The Pink Fat Ladies,
was awarded a second place ribbon in a different category. I'm
thrilled!
The show was
great this year, as it always is. NSQG puts on a show that is, in my opinion,
the very best guild show on the east coast! (It's MY guild, so I can say
that!) All the quilts in the show were quite spectacular, the speakers
fabulous, the vendors were superb, and it was so much fun seeing all my
good friends and meeting new ones!
Demonstrations:
I was asked to give
a thread-painting demonstration in the works-in-progress room during this
year's NSQG show, and was happy to oblige -- I do love an audience!
Despite the limited space and very hot room, we all had a great time
resting our feet and talking about my favorite thing -- thread! I enjoyed
answering some very good questions from the peanut gallery. My good friend
Judy Gignesi did a fantastic job of organizing the Work-in-progress
displays and all of the demonstrations -- what a gal!
April, 2004
Teaching:
What a good time I had
teaching my Freemotion Without Fear workshop at the City
Quilter earlier this month! Such a nice group of women came to class,
and the new, larger space is beautiful! I'll be teaching there again in
August, giving a workshop on different methods of machine appliqué.
March, 2004
Teaching:
I'm looking forward to
teaching my Freemotion Without Fear workshop to a group of
quilters from the Evening Star quilt guild in Garden City, Long Island on
Saturday, March 6th. I plan on bringing my digital camera along so I can
take some pictures and upload them to my website in the workshop section.
UPDATE: Their
are no other women on earth like those from Long Island -- they are simply
the best! I had such a great time with this fabulous bunch of women! The
digital camera experiment didn't quite work out (it was a new camera and I
guess I just didn't give myself enough time to get familiar with it!) . .
. oh well, trust me, they were all very beautiful, and funny and welcoming
as well. There was some talk about having me come back to give them
another workshop, and I hope they really meant it, because I'd LOVE to go
back "home" to Long Island and spend some more time with those
wonderful women!
February, 2004
Exhibitions
and Shows:
The Fat Ladies After Dark was selected to be displayed at
Considering Quilts 2004: Fiber Artists Explore the Quilt Form, in New
Smyrna Beach, Florida. The show will run from April 3 to May 15, 2004, at
the Atlantic
Center for the Arts at Harris House. Located across from the
picturesque Intracoastal Waterway, the venue provides an impressive
setting for the exhibit, which is becoming known as one of the finest
small fiber art quilt exhibitions in Florida!
Andrew
in Montauk
will be part of the ART QUILTS: ELEMENTS exhibition at
the Page-Walker Arts & History
Center in Cary, North Carolina. The exhibit runs from April 30 to May
31, 2004. An artist' reception will be held on April 30, at 6-8 pm.
The Blue
Lady
won two ribbons at the Northern Star Quilters Guild's annual
challenge: Reflections. It was awarded third place for Best Use of
Embellishment and third place for Best Use of Non-Traditional Material.
The quilt will travel with the other challenge entries to the Quilters
Heritage Celebration in Lancaster, PA, where it will be included in a
special exhibit from April 1-4th, 2004.
January, 2004
Exhibitions
and Shows:
Spring
Rain, New Growth
and Elect-Trickle Banana were
juried into the Quilters Heritage Celebration in Lancaster, PA. The
annual event will be held April 1-4, 2004.
Sale:
The Three Fat Ladies was sold to Carolyn Lee
Vehslage. It has become a part of Carolyn's growing fiber art collection.
I'm very excited to have a piece included in Carolyn's collection, where
it lives among some very illustrious company!
December, 2003
Exhibitions
and Shows:
Mini Spring
Rain
was selected to be displayed at the Road to
California Quilters' Showcase at the Ontario Convention Center in
Ontario, California. The conference/show will be held January 15th through
January 18th of
2004. The judges for the show will be Cindy Walter, Bonnie Browning and
Lynn Kough.
Publications:
The Fat Ladies
will appear in Magic Patch™ magazine, a European quilt
publication, along with other quilts that were a part of the the Wrapped
in Cloth: The Human Figure in Textiles exhibit. I don't know any more
details yet!
November, 2003
Sale:
The Fat
Ladies
was sold to Charles Shafer and Mary Fitzgibbons, of Rio
Rico, Arizona, during the Wrapped in Cloth: the Human Figure in
Textiles exhibit at the Tubac Center of the Arts in Tubac, AZ. I
received a lovely email from Mary telling me that her husband, Charles,
purchased the quilt as a gift for her on the occasion of their 30th
wedding anniversary. Mary sounds like a lovely lady. I'm so glad that the
first, and most special quilt in my Fat Ladies series has found a good
home!
October, 2003
Publications:
Festival of
Lights appears on page 38 of the
November/December issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting™ in
a lovely article entitled "Glory Quilts." The author, Linda
Hungerford,
interviewed me for the article some time ago. I think she did a wonderful
job of condensing our very long telephone conversation into a cohesive
description of my pattern company and how it began, and its a lovely
tribute to the memory of my father-in-law. My thanks to Linda, and to
Marianne Fons, who was just great to deal with -- and to my dear friend,
Mary Gay Leahy, who convinced Marianne to visit me in my booth at Houston
Quilt Market last year.
Exhibits
and Shows:
I just received
word that two of my quilts, Art Nouveau Tree and Spring
Rain, New Growth were accepted into the Quilts=Art=Quilts
exhibition at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, New York.
I'm so honored and thrilled to have two quilts in this very prestigious
show! The exhibit opens on November 1st and runs through January 4th of
2004.
The
Website:
The tweaking is
never done! I've added a new feature to the
Patterns
page, allowing customers to buy patterns using PayPal. So far, it's
working out very nicely, making shopping a lot easier and much more
efficient. It lets me get out those patterns much more quickly, with a
whole lot less turn-around time!
Teaching:
I'll be teaching my
most popular workshop, Free Motion Without Fear, at the new
location of
The
City Quilter on April 17th of 2004.
September, 2003
Publications:
"Spinning
Dreidel," a bright, colorful and easy little quilt that I
designed, appears on page 46 of the December issue of McCall's Quilting
Magazine. Beth Hayes, McCall's editor, asked me to design a Hanukkah
quilt for the magazine when I met her last fall in Houston during Quilt
Market. Many thanks go to my friend, Meghan Carroll, who cut out all those little
coins, helping me to meet the deadline and get the quilt to Colorado on
time! The bi-monthly magazine is on newsstands now -- How exciting!
Exhibits
and Shows:
Three Fat Ladies,
along with 29 other quilts by the group, Fiber Revolution, will be
shown at the Ellen Traut Collection Gallery, 635 Farmington Avenue,
Hartford, CT ( 860-233-1938), Sept 3 - Oct 31, 2003. The Opening reception
will be held on September 5, 5:30-8:30 pm.
Elect-Trickle
Banana has been accepted for the exhibit "Quilts for Art Sake
II", October 3 -26, 2003. There will be a gala Opening Reception
on Friday night, October 3rd from 6-9 pm at the Makeready's Gallery 214
ArtSpace, 214 Glenridge Avenue,
Montclaire, NJ 07042.
Mysterious
and Second Trial Mystery have been accepted into Art Quilts
VIII: A Cut Above. This national exhibition at the Chandler Center for
the Arts (250 N. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, Arizona) will be displayed from
Sept. 24 - Nov. 8, 2003 with a reception on October 3, from 7-9 pm.
The Fat
Ladies
was accepted into the Tubac Center of the Arts exhibition "Wrapped
in Cloth - The Human Figure in Textiles", October 11 - November
16, 2003. Night Gardening and Andrew in Montauk were
accepted into the on-line exhibition. The website http://www.TubacArts.org
sale opens on the First of September. Please visit! An opening reception
will be held at 3 pm on Saturday, October 11th at Tubac Center of the
Arts, 9 Plaza Road, Tubac, Arizona 85646 (520) 398-2371. Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 10 AM - 4:30 PM, Sundays 1 PM - 4:30 PM. Closed
Mondays. ** Extra special news ** -- The Fat Ladies was chosen as
the featured quilt pictured on the postcard, gallery poster and the
website for the on-line exhibition of Wrapped in Cloth.
What a thrill! It's the first time one of my quilts was chosen as the
featured quilt -- and printed on the postcard for a show -- I am so
excited!
Teaching:
I'll be teaching a
six hour workshop, Free Motion Without Fear for the Evening
Star Quilters of Garden City, Long Island on Saturday, March 6, 2004. I'm
looking forward to meeting them!
August, 2003
Publications:
It was such a huge thrill to
receive my September issue of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine in the mail
and to see my quilt, Strawberry Fields Forever
right there on page 60! It was in very good company, with beautiful quilts by,
among other talented artists, Ann Fahl and Katie Pasquini Masopust.
Teaching:
I'll be teaching
two class this fall at the Country Quilter: Free Motion Without Fear and a
Threadpainting class with a new sample featuring beautiful
autumn leaves. See my Workshops page for more information
about these two classes.
Changes and
Additions to the Website:
As everyone who's
ever maintained a website knows, the work is never done . . . It seems as
if there is always "just one more thing" that has to be
done! I've changed the organization of my gallery pages, and I'm
much happier with the way all the quilts look now. Please drop me a line
and let me know what you think! I've added a section to my home page that lists exhibits where my
work is currently being shown.
Exhibits
and Shows:
Speaking of places
where my work is being shown, I've discovered that it's a whole lot of
work (almost like a full-time job!) to organize all those entry forms,
deadline dates, shipping dates and show and exhibit schedules! I wish I
had a secretary! I think I've finally come up with a system that
works for me -- it involves a very, very large calendar with lots of room
to note which of my art quilts will be where, when . . . yellow and
bright pink highlighter lets me know when each quilts need to be shipped,
and when it will return home. If only there was a dedicated computer
program I could use!
During the
month of August, my quilts I Heard It Through the
Grapevine and Electrical Banana will be
exhibited at the Mancuso Brothers World
Quilt & Textile - On Tour - New England at The Center of New
Hampshire Hotel, 700 Elm Street, Manchester, NH 03101
August 14 - 17, 2003. More exhibits are planned for the fall -- my
quilts will be traveling a whole lot more than I will!
June, 2003
A New
Direction:
Spring was a season of change for me, both personally and artistically
-- and it was all good!
After more
than six years of working as a part-time staff member at the Country
Quilter in Somers, New York, it was time to make a change, and so at the end of May,
I sadly gave notice. I'll miss so many things about working there . .
but, change can be good . . . I'm looking forward to spending my new found
"extra time" in my studio creating art quilts!
Also last
month came an invitation to join Fiber Revolution, a group of professional fiber artists
from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. I'm excited and honored to be a part of this
group
of thirty talented artists. Please visit our beautiful new website at: http://www.fiberrevolution.com
This
invitation has lit a fire under me, so to speak. I feel invigorated, and
I'm eager to get started creating lots and lots of fiber art! So,
artistically, I feel as I've entered a new phase. If you've really been
paying attention, you'll have noticed that the quilt on my website's home
page looks different. It's brand new, though it's based on last year's
April journal quilt. I've called it: Spring Rain, New Growth. It's
symbolic of the new outlook I have on my art. For now, at least, I plan to
spend my creative time working on art that make me happy, that gives me
joy, that is pleasing to me alone. I've decided not to worry about whether
anyone else will like my work. We'll just have to see where this new
direction takes me!
April, 2003
Inventing
Tradition:
The newest Inventing Tradition pattern, Dove of Peace,
is featured on page 4 of the current issue of American Quilt
Retailer newsletter. Unfortunately, the telephone number was
printed incorrectly. My business contact number is: 914-962-6131. The fax
number is 914-962-1159. Click here for more information about my patterns.
The
Website:
After taking a class in web design using Microsoft FrontPage last winter, I've been tinkering with my
website and have finally gotten it in good enough shape (I know it's
hopelessly slow and there's still things to work out. . .) to
replace my old Inventing Tradition site -- I'll never be an expert
at this
computer stuff, but I do enjoy it. The only problem is that it's never
really, really done, and web design doesn't leave a whole lot of time for
quilting!
Teaching:
I'll be teaching a
class this summer at the Country Quilter based on a pattern from the book,
"Garden Inspired Quilts" by Jean & Valori Wells. The quilt, Summer
Celebration, depicts a beautiful dragonfly in a lush garden, and
features lots of free-motion embroidery and quilting. I'll also be
teaching Free Motion Without Fear and a new class on Threadpainting.
See my Workshops page for more information
about these.
Publications:
I've just received word that my quilt Strawberry Fields Forever will
be featured in an upcoming issue of Quilters' Newsletter Magazine. How
exciting!
March, 2003
Publications:
What a thrill to unsuspectingly open a class catalog and find my own quilt
inside! Wow! I just received my copy of the Spring International
Quilt Festival/Chicago class catalog, and inside, on page 2, is my
February Zebra Journal page, and a very nice credit with my name right below it!
Yahoo!
January, 2003
Teaching:
I'll be teaching a class based on my new Inventing Tradition
pattern, Welcoming the Sabbath, at
The
City Quilter on February 9th. I'm so excited about teaching in New
York City! This is going to be so fun!
September, 2002
Inventing Tradition:
My three newest Inventing Tradition
patterns are finally finished!
Quilt Market:
I'll be attending International
Quilt Market in Houston in October. It's my first time there as an
exhibitor. My booth number is 1027. I'm excited and nervous, but mostly
I'm exhausted, because there's so much work involved in getting ready for
Market! The dates for this year's market are October 26th through October
28th. It's open to the trade only - if you attend, please stop by my booth
and say hello!
Teaching:
I'll be teaching four different classes this
fall at The Country Quilter in Somers, NY. The schedule is available at
the shop now, or you can check it out online at The
Country Quilter.
One class in particular has been very popular, and
fills almost instantly as soon as it's offered. It's called "Free
Motion without Fear." It's a six hour class that's designed to get
rid of that awful fear that strikes the hearts of many when those feed
dogs go down! The class includes lots of information about decorative
threads, needles and other free-motion techniques, as well as exercises to
strengthen control of stitch length, speed and control. It's been great
fun to teach, and I hope to be able to continue teaching it for a long,
long time!
Traveling quilts:
In October of 2001, along with almost 300
other quilters, I participated in the "America: From the Heart"
exhibit held at the International Quilt
Festival in Houston. My contribution, "Reaching Up to the
Sky," a tribute to the victims of the World Trade Center disaster,
was one of approximately 100 quilts auctioned off, with the proceeds going
to the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund. You can see the quilt on page
51 of the book
published by C&T Publishing. All
the proceeds from the book will also go the Scholarship Fund.
"Reaching Up to the Sky" has continued to
travel around the country, with the kind permission of its new owners, Jim
and Janice Feather. Currently, it can be seen at the Hudson
River Museum from September 28th through January 5th, 2003.
June, 2002
Inventing Tradition:
I've been working on some new patterns for
the "Celebrate Your Heritage" line. They're coming together
nicely, and should be ready to go to the photographer very soon. The
photographs that appear on my pattern covers were taken by Howard Goodman,
PO Box 453, Peekskill NY 10566. He's great! If you need professional craft
photography, you can e-mail Howard directly at hogo@advinc.com
Teaching:
I'll be teaching three different classes
this summer at The Country Quilter in Somers, NY. The schedule is
available at the shop now, or you can check it out online at The Country
Quilter.
Traveling quilts:
I recently completed the latest quilt in my
"Rock 'n Roll Fruit" series. I
Heard it Through the Grapevine has been traveling all over the
country lately. It went to Indiana for the Indiana
Heritage Show, and
then it traveled to Lancaster, Pennsylvania for the Quilter's
Heritage Celebration. Its next trip was a lot more local — it
was shown at the Northern
Star Quilters' Guild show, "A World of Quilts XXIII on May
4th and 5th in Somers, NY, where it received a third place ribbon in its
category.
Another of my art quilts, "Strawberry Fields
Forever" traveled to Dallas for the Dallas
Quilt Celebration in March, where it won an Honorable Mention
in the Masters Division. When it returned home, I was really surprised to
find a huge ribbon in the box! Wow, they give out really, really big
ribbons at those Texas quilt shows!
Along with almost 300 other quilters, I
participated
in the "America: From the Heart" exhibit held at the
International Quilt Festival in Houston last October. I'm proud to have
been a part of this event, organized by Karey Bresenhan. My contribution, Reaching
up to the Sky was one of approximately 100 quilts auctioned off
last October, with all of the proceeds going to the Families of Freedom
Scholarship Fund. You can see the quilt on page 51 of the book
published by C&T Publishing. All the proceeds from the book will also
go the Scholarship Fund.
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