"Today I live in the joyful expectation of good."

I write to you from my home studio in evergreen Seattle, Washington where I live with my husband, Martin and my two quilting assistants Scooter and Apollo.  We recently lost my main quilt buddy, Woofus.   Apollo is our emergency backup dog.  He belongs to my son, Evan but lives with us currently.  We are gld to have him here to help us through our healing.

We're transplants to the Northwest and have lived here since 1998.  The water is my muse and the wet, gray winters are perfect for combining bright fabrics and threads into quilts and quilting has made the winters tolerable.  See quilts here.

Years ago, I drifted in "craft space", floating from one craft to another as the winds blew me.  Being nomadic in the craft world didn't give me the joy of crafting I desired and I rarely completed projects and had a lot of stuff adding clutter to my home and siphoning my dollars.

My sister, Ellen was the quilter in our family and I always told her I wouldn't have the patience to quilt (or the time since I had a husband, five children, a cat, a dog and a full-time job).  I also didn't think I would like it much because after all I didn't like sewing all that much.  I tried making clothing and did make a lot of our childrens' clothing (including swimming suits) when they were younger but got no joy from the process.

Then I saw a program on television in the early 1990's about English paper-piecing (see the paper-pieced quilts here).  The process intrigued me and didn't really seem to really be sewing.  So I jumped in with both feet and very little learning.  I started sewing  totally traditional quilts, totally by hand.  I'm self-taught and have made all of the classic mistakes and made up some new ones of you own.

Then several years ago, I saw another quilting program featuring Tammy Bowser and her fabric mosaic  technique.  I fell in love with the process and ordered everything I could from her including her books, software and supplies.  I then started working and made changes until the process became my own and I had "tweaked" it to work for me.

As I've read other quilters' biography write-ups trying to get an idea of what to write in mine, I realized I have no professional credentials.  I've never won an award, shown a quilt in a show, taught a quilting class, written or published a book, authored a magazine article or hosted a quilting show.

What I have to recommend me is a deep passion for fabric, quilting and faces.  I have more ideas and photographs for projects than I probably have time or energy to create but I sure do intend to try!