My journey into quilting began 40 years ago when I wanted to make a quilt for my young daughter. I had been making crafts and sewing clothing for many years and felt confident and excited about this new path. This project led me to seek out a new quilt guild in my city and I […]
I come from a long line of quilt makers from the Deccan Peninsula of India. My tiny Konkani community is cradled in an ancestral coastal village called Kalusta in Maharashtra. There, my grandmother, my great grandmothers, and great aunts have been making traditional quilts called Godharis. These traditional quilts are presented at every milestone and […]
When I left the world of quilt magazine publishing in 2019, that wasn’t the end of my quilting career. After taking a short break, I started to work on my Quilt Appraisal Certification. For most appraisers, it takes about three years to certify. At the rate I’m going, it will take the rest of my […]
The portrait genre is very popular in art. A textile portrait is a fairly new phenomenon. At the most prestigious quilt festivals today, you can see many different examples of portrait art. Why is this genre so popular today? In the recent past, the portrait could be used mainly by artists. It was necessary to […]
It wasn’t supposed to be this way; we weren’t supposed to fall in love. We, the hardened travelers of remote islands and empty seacoasts, were supposed to be repelled by a fairground city given over to the hordes. And yet, like the many millions before us, of course we swooned. How mistaken we were to […]
My quilt, Edson House, was made in 1995 and it reflects my growing interest in genealogy at that time as well as my beginning steps of making a picture of something by using the designs that appear in traditional quilt blocks. I knew there was an Edson Street in South Buffalo, New York and I […]
For the past few years I host an artist open house in my home as part of our neighbourhood artist studio tour. For two days I talk non-stop to people who are curious to peek inside my house. Then they become fascinated by the fibre art, the likes of which most have never seen before. […]
Last year I read about a new challenge from the San Francisco School of Needlework and Design. Entitled Healing and Reflection, the challenge was to produce a stitching exploring the concepts of healing and one’s experience with embroidery. I was enticed to participate, as I have found much benefit in my own health journey, once […]
My father passed away very recently. Although he was elderly with health issues, his death was sudden and unexpected. It tore my very soul apart. There is now a painful void in my heart, and though the pain may diminish over the years, that void will never be filled. My only solace is knowing he […]
In September of 2018, my husband and I took a cruise to the South Pacific. One of the stops along the route was Easter Island (part of Chile) or more commonly known as Rapa Nui, among the indigenous people. This is one of the go-to places to have on your bucket list. It was on […]