In the beginning there was an Art major. She had an emphasis in photography and dabbled in other things. Metal sculpture was great while she had access to the metal studio but once college was over, the fling was over too (not that it couldn't be ignited again but for now...). She did a lot with drawing and collage but struggled with painting and ceramics.
Life took its course. She finally learned to paint as well as do printmaking and ceramics. And, eventually, she started learning the fiber arts too. That didn't come until much later when she was going through a very difficult life trial and knitting was a life saver. Somehow she could never just follow a pattern and she could rarely knit with less than two balls of yarn at once. Then came crocheting, of course. Same problems.
And, finally, after struggling with an old sewing machine that barely managed it's one straight stitch and while muddling through yet another life-changing trial, she got a fancy, new sewing machine and immediately started quilting. Quilting!?!? This lady thought she'd never quilt. She had always admired her grandma's quilts (and sleeps with one every night) but figured she was not detail oriented enough to do all the precise cutting and sewing to ever be a quilter. Spike Gillespie's book, Quilty as Charged: Undercover in a Material World, changed all that. It was inspirational and freeing. There were art quilts and modern quilts, caveman and crazy quilts, improve and not-quite-traditional quilts to be made.
And sew it begins again...
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