New Work

Ahhhh, this is the life!

I have just returned from four days on a quilting holiday, the annual Trinity Valley Quilters' Guild retreat, on the shores of Lake Texoma. Four days of nonstop sewing with 83 other quilters. It's actually pretty wonderful -- the retreat is held in a spa hotel, and we only stop sewing long enough to chat, eat, sleep and, when the back starts to ache from the hours of hunching over a sewing machine, get a massage.

So last Sunday I picked out fabric, packed my sewing machine and rotary cutter, and headed to Pottsboro, Texas.

I had decided this year that I was going to work on very small pieces. As a warm up, I started with a piece (very loosely) based on a painting by Joan Miro, our February challenge piece for studioQ. I have been working on a larger Miro-inspired piece at home, still on the design wall, but I felt the urge to make a smaller one. It went together quickly.

Mir piece, approximately 18" x 26"

I have a solo show this summer at the Goodrich Gallery in Dallas. I will be showing mostly pieces from the geological series. So I thought the retreat would be a good place to make a few small (hopefully 12" x 12" finished) pieces for the show. These first two are based on microscopic thin sections of quartz, hematite, siderite and riebeckite.