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Art Quilt For Tiff

Art Quilt from Original Drawing

Above is a small quilt (can be either a wall hanging or a throw) that I made for a client.  The two pictures are blown up copies of two original drawings by Tiff Demezas, my client’s 12-year old daughter. Continue reading

Best Quilt I Ever Made? Forest Quilt And Others

In my last two posts, I written about how I made this quilt. The man who commissioned them asked me, rather rhetorically, “I’ll bet this is the best quilt you’ve ever made.” I’m not sure what answer I mumbled, but I did know that I had reached another pinnacle, even though my hold on it might be somewhat precarious. Continue reading

Creativity Is The Ability To Make Mistakes

Creativity is the ability to make mistakes. Art is deciding which ones to keep. Okay, I didn’t make that up. Scott Adams did. But is one of my very favorite quotes (as I’ve already admitted in the blog about Ronnie Noize). But I was thinking about that tonight, as I often do when quilting. I was at the end of a quilt when fabric began to bunch up – as it often does. Unless I Continue reading