SPIRAL T

As an artist, I've been a painter, have a degree in Printmaking, and have been a seamstress since I was a young teen. I began making quilts some 40+ years ago for my daughter and family. I worked with geometric designs because I couldn't make the quilts I was seeing in my mind. I didn't have the skill, and there wasn't anyone teaching how to make art quilts back then... In the late 80's, it finally dawned on me to treat my ideas as if I were making a beautiful silk blouse from a Vogue pattern. Once I began to understand that concept of "Vogue" patterns for quilts, I began working from my many drawings, doodles, photographs, and prints. I figured out how to make a "Vogue" style pattern from my drawings, and then figured out how to sew that design together without the distortion that had plagued my efforts in the early years.