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In Progress: The Transformation of an Antique Crazy Quilt
 (Above: Stitching in the living room. Click on any image to enlarge.)About a month ago, I purchased a stack of five vintage and antique quilts at Bill Mishoe's auction. The lot set me back $20 plus...
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CRAZY (In the Millennial Age)
 (Above: Detail from CRAZY (In the Millennial Age). Click on any image to enlarge.)Finished! Thousands of stitches, hundreds of anonymous photographs, dozens of old keys and clock gears, and too...
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Commitment
(Above: Commitment. Digital image on fabric with hand and free motion machine stitching, beading, and trapunto/stuffing. Framed: 26 1/2" x 20". Click on any image to enlarge.)I don't know how or why...
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Enos Park Residency ... I've arrived!
 (Above: The art residency duplex for the Enos Park Residency Program. Click on any image to enlarge.)I have arrived in Springfield, Illinois for four-weeks with the Enos Park Residency program. As...
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Sue's Environmental To Do List
(Above: Part of Sue's Environmental To Do List hanging in the small bedroom at the Enos Park Residency Program, part of the Springfield Art Association in Springfield, Illinois. Click on any image to...
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Raven, Anti-Rust, and the Springfield Art Association
(Above: Raven, 12" x 12", digital image on fabric with hand and free-motion stitching, trapunto, and buttons. Click on any image to enlarge.)I brought three digital images printed on fabric by...
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The Clothesline Begins and Tour of Edwards Place Mansion
 (Above: First five items for The Clothesline. Click on any image to enlarge.)Once all the stitching on the twenty quilt blocks for Sue's Environmental To Do List were finished, it was time to turn...
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The Clothesline, part one
(Above: The Clothesline on the second floor porch at the Enos Park Art Residency in Springfield, Illinois. Click on any image to enlarge.)My Springfield Art Association residency proposal called for...
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Roadside Madonna Mini Quilt and Sightseeing in Springfield
(Above: Roadside Madonna, 12" x 12". Digital image on fabric with hand and machine stitching, beading, buttons, and trapunto/stuffing. Click on any image to enlarge.)Every evening during this...
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The Clothesline progresses and Confidence
(Above: Confidence, 12" x 12". Digital image on fabric with hand and machine stitching, beading, and trapunto/stuffing. Click on any image to enlarge.)This art residency with the Springfield Art...
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Wrapping up the Residency
 (Above: The last few pieces made for The Clothesline. Click on any image to enlarge.)Time has really flown by during the past few weeks as artist-in-residency at the Springfield Art Association....
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To the Home of a Foe ... Nope! I'm going to Carrollton!
(Above:To the Home of a Foe, Altered Cross Stitch. Framed: 26 1/2" x 23 1/2". Vintage cross stitch with updated statement and hand-stitched background texture. Click on either image to...
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Anonymous Ancestors at Lander University
(Above: My installation Anonymous Ancestors at Lander University's Fine Art Gallery. On view from February 27 - March 27, 2020 in Greenwood, South Carolina. Click on any image to enlarge.)It was...
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All Sorts of Directions
(Above: In Box CCCLXXII. Inventory # 4674. Framed: 25" x 19". $325. Click on any image to enlarge.)Since returning from Lander University and a successful opening of my solo installation Anonymous...
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Sue's Environmental To Do List
(Above: Sue's Environmental To Do List, 70" x 126". Vintage quilt blocks altered with hand embroidered calls-for-action phrases presented in 14" wooden hoops. Click on any image to enlarge.)The...
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Home Series
 (Above: Home Series, Nine vintage photographs with hand embroidered phrases and blanket stitched edges. Hung as a grouping at 46" x 52". Click on any image to enlarge.)Several months ago I purchased...
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Welcome to the Gayborhood, an altered cross stitch
 (Above: Welcome to the Gayborhood, an altered cross stitch. Framed: 16" x 26". Click on any image to enlarge.)Charleston, South Carolina is a major center for tourism. Many will take a carriage...
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Oswald Home Laundry
(Above: Oswald Home Laundry. 44" x 61". Digital image transfer and paint on antique Irish chain crib/lap quilt with buttons and a hand-stitched outline. Click on any image to enlarge.)Quite a few of...
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Quarantine
(Above: Quarantine. 12" x 12". Digital image printed on fabric with both hand and machine stitching. Click on any image to enlarge.)I don't remember playing with dolls as a child. Two of my three...
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Nike's Advice VII and VIII
 (Above: Nike's Advice VII, detail. Click on any image to enlarge.)It all started back in the spring of 2016 at an annual art crawl called Artista Vista. I conducted a performance/installation art...
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