Artist • Teacher • Author
My episode is now streaming free on The Quilt Show.
In it, I share some of my quilts and demonstrate woodblock printing and how to make my quick and easy Trees quilt. Follow the link and click on "WATCH Shows" and then on the episode.
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.