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Cross Creek and the Clothesline Continues
(Above: Cross Creek, mini art quilt. 12" x 12". Hand and free-motion machine stitching on a digital image printed on fabric. Click on any image to enlarge.)I spend most evenings watching whatever...
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Time Standing Still, a mini art quilt
(Above: Time Standing Still, detail. Click on any image to enlarge.)As news of COVID-19 spread into Italy, events in America started canceling. My once busy April calendar cleared. Soon, events in...
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Aprons for the Clothesline Installation
(Above: The Clothesline, an installation in progress. Vintage household linens and aprons with found fabric hand prints fused and zigzag stitched to both sides. Click on any image to enlarge.)It is...
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Lock Down 2020
(Lock Down 2020, detail. Click on any image to enlarge.)All of Columbia, South Carolina's non-essential businesses are under lock-down due to the spreading COVID-19 virus. For me, these days are...
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Angel Mirror
(Above: Angel Mirror. 22" x 16". Antique mirror, black-and-white photocopy transfer, epoxy. $225. Click on any image to enlarge.)Sometimes at an auction, I bid on badly broken items ... things that...
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Nike's Advice Continues
(Above: Me holding Nike's Advice XIII in front of my Wall of Keys. Click on any image to enlarge.)For quite some time I've been working on eleven pieces in the Nike's Advice Series. The first two...
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The Red Carpet Dress at Castaways
(Above: The Red Carpet Dress, currently at the Bateman Foundation in Victoria, British Columbia ... which is closed due to the COVID-19 virus)Even though Castaways, an international invitational...
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Stir Crazy in South Carolina
(Above: Detail of Stir Crazy in South Carolina. Click on any image to enlarge.)New art ideas have been bubbling since the COVID-19 "sheltering in place" ordinances were announced. Visions of...
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Finishing Up Nike's Advice
(Above: Nike's Advice XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, and XVIII leaning up against my Wall of Keys. Click on any image to enlarge.)A couple months ago I started the free-motion stitching on eleven scraps of...
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Yellow-breasted Chat
(Above: Yellow-breasted Chat, 12" x 12" mini art quilt. Manipulated digital image printed on fabric with hand stitching and trapunto/stuffing. Click on any image to enlarge.)Earlier this year I...
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Commission
(Above: Spring Blooms, detail. Click on any image to enlarge.)It took a couple years before I could say, "I'm an artist" without flinching, without self-effacing sarcasm, without feeling like a...
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Infected 2020 and Marble Man, two mini art quilts
(Above: Infected 2020, a mini art quilt. 12" x 12". Manipulated digital image printed on fabric with both free-motion machine and hand stitching. Click on any image to enlarge.)With the COVID-19...
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Four new "Window Series" pieces.
(Above: Window CLXXVIII. Framed 19" x 17". Polyester stretch velvet on recycled black industrial felt with free-motion machine embroidery and melting techniques. $265. Click on any image to...
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Painting Outside - Stitching Inside
(Above: Painting outside. Click on any image to enlarge.)Originally, Nike's Advice was an art performance piece. I painted 130 feet of unprimed canvas with the public. There were no instructions,...
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California Valley Quail, a mini art quilt
(Above: California Valley Quilt, a mini art quilt. 12" x 12". Digital image printed on fabric with hand and machine embroidery. Click on any image to enlarge.)Earlier this month I posted another 12"...
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More items for The Clothesline Installation!
(Above: More items for The Clothesline Installation. Click on any image to enlarge.)A wonderful friend dropped by a donation of vintage household linens last week. She knew I was creating a new...
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I'm Not Stitching Masks
(Above: Big City Lights, a mini art quilt 10 1/2" x 22". My manipulated digital image printed on fabric with both hand and free-motion machine stitching. Click on any image to enlarge.)I had a lot...
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Oriental Mood I and II
(Above: Oriental Mood I and II. Altered oriental screen. Each side is 26 1/2" x 17 1/2". Vintage oriental embroideries and silk matting. Click on any image to enlarge.)Sometimes I buy things at...
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Laundry Day Series
(Above: Two of the Laundry Day Series pieces, matted and in 20" x 16" Clear Bag protection! Click on any image to enlarge.)When I first started creating The Clothesline Installation during a...
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New Windows
(Above: Window CLXXXII. Unframed: 13" x 11"; framed: 19" x 17". $265. Layers of polyester stretch velvet on recycled black industrial felt with free-motion machine embroidery and melting techniques....
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