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Hello all, long time no see. I’ve been busy lately, as I bet many of you have as well, with holiday plans. I’ve also been down in Belize seeing the new house for the first time (yeah!) and up here preparing for the move. In between I’ve started gathering up the material for the quilt […]

I’ve decided to switch to biweekly posts to the blog, in part because my non-art life has been terribly busy lately but also because I’ve found myself spending what I feel is too much time thinking about what to write about. I’d rather spend my time making art and have the blog post be a […]

Not a new punk band, rather a description of my week. Started the week out at my mother-in-laws in Connecticut to attend the funeral of my husband’s aunt Gloria Outwater (Schrader). In addition to the strong women in my birth family I’ve had the pleasure of knowing a number of other strong (and strong-willed) women, […]

The good thing about feeling poorly the last week or so is it has given me a chance to reassess the project and do some planning. I had planned from the start to make a total of nine memorial quilts. This is largely because I am making an extra square for each to join together […]

Hello all, this seems to be a very busy time of year for me, and a hard one to get a lot of art done in. Every year at this time my husband and I go up to Quebec for a music festival (let’s see if I can get my french approximately right…) le Festivale […]

I haven’t lost it – I finished up the postcards! I always seem to underestimate how long the hand-sewing around the edges is going to take… I really enjoyed working with the crazy quilt pattern – or lack there of. I’ve decided that I’ll make one of the full size quilts a crazy quilt. But […]

Every year in June I go to the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown Mass.  It is a wonderful gathering of painters, printmakers and artists of every ilk. There are lectures, demos, book-signings, a hotel-fair where we get to see each other’s work and a vendor room to die for. I plan my art-life around this […]

I’ve been doing some research into calico prints from the early to mid 20th century, the time that my great-grandmother Grace would have been quilting. I’ve also been taking a closer look at the photos that I have of the crazy quilt that hangs at the Veazie Congrational Church (pictured above), the one quilt that […]

A corollary of this is don’t take cold medicine and try to work with hot things or sharp objects. Hence I’ve not been doing much artwork the last few days, as I seem to be coming down with a rather nasty cold. So this week seems to be a good time to talk about memorial […]

I spent a whole day last week in the archives of the Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine at Orono. Started 50 years ago by Edward “Sandy” Ives, the Folklife Center is a repository of folklore and oral history of Maine and Maritime Canada. Back in 1977-1978 the Sandy Ives and students associated […]