2020 started like an ordinary year for us, quilt artists: busy creating new art, looking for calls for entries, and making arrangements for quilt shows and exhibitions. But pretty soon the year turned out to be an extraordinary, like we never had before. Our lives have changed. With every long …
Crafts
Scraps, scraps, scraps
I think every quilter encounters this problem: what to do with scraps, how to use them, how small they have to be that could be thrown away? First of all, scraps are worth of saving and using because of the pollution that textile industry produces. The more scraps we use, and more textiles we reuse …
My Creative Backstory
This blog post was inspired by my friend and mentor Brenda Gael Smith. She started a series of blog posts Creative Backstory where she is reflecting on what she has learned since she made her first baby quilt 20 years ago. Since then Brenda became a world known quilt artist, teacher, mentor and …
