Artist • Teacher • Author
The View from... the Road
What a wonderful morning with the Hospitality Chapter of the Richmond Quilters' Guild! These quilters were warm, welcoming, and engaging.
I always enjoy hearing about what guilds are doing, but this group set a new bar for service projects. The sheer number of quilts they've made and donated in this year alone is staggering! Their generosity and hard work are inspiring.
I shared my new Lessons Learned lecture with this group, but I came away having learned a few lessons from them.
I love what happens when fabric, thread, color, words, and ideas come together. For me, making a quilt is a conversation, a dance between the idea I begin with, the materials in my hands, and the piece that gradually tells me what it wants to become.
My work ranges from art quilts to celebration and memory quilts to my take on something more traditional. And there's always a story.
I also teach and lecture, sharing the techniques I use and the lessons I've learned through years of making quilts, writing about them, teaching other quilters, and occasionally talking about them in front of a camera.
I am a juried member of Studio Art Quilt Associates.
About Moonlighting Quilts
I started Moonlighting Quilts in 2005, partly as a cover story for leaving my communications career. My sister was battling ovarian cancer, and I wanted the freedom to be there for her as much as possible. She would have strongly disapproved of my walking away from a perfectly good job, and so I became a professional quilter instead.
Quilting helped carry me through losing her. Today, I'm back in communications, and Moonlighting Quilts is living up to its name: quilting is once again the work I do alongside my day job—and the work that keeps me happy.