Sally Ride Science

7:00PM - "The Road Home" presentation with Q&A session/trunk show Immanuel Lutheran Church, Independence, IA.

Over the years, I have had the chance to meet and become friends with so many wonderful people through quilting.  They are one of the greatest rewards of over fifteen years of quilt making.  I'd like to honor and recognize them in this photo gallery.  When people ask me how I learned to quilt, I say "self-taught," but mostly it was by asking questions of very helpful and generous shop-owners, clerks and fellow quilters.  I continue to make and sell quilts only with the talents and good graces of others.  Thank you all for being a part of my life!   Louisiana Bendolph , Gee's Bend Collective quilter Shanghai, China, September 2012 Though my time together with Louisiana Bendolph was limited to our 10-day trip to Shanghai via the US Embassy-sponsored exhibit, "The Sum of Many Parts," the influence of that trip and time with Louisiana will be lifelong.  I have been a huge fan of Gee's Bend quilts since first learning about them, perhaps through the US Posta

A nice article by fellow quilter, Luke Haynes .  Thanks, Luke!

A beautiful collection cabin photos from around the world.

My brother Scott (CA) sent me this video.  He and I discovered we both have had a lifelong fascination with Rio de Janeiro.  I love how the way it's filmed makes everything appear to be in miniature.

"Why, how did we become so hypnotized by structures that we put in place, that they seem more permanent than nature itself...?"

La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum , 703 S. 2nd St., La Conner, WA The two quilts I am exhibiting:  Venus Transit, 2012 Humans Race, 2012

A joint initiative of South Arts , Arts Midwest ,  Great Lakes Quilting Center , and the United States Embassy of Beijing, China ,  The Sum of Many Parts: 25 Quiltmakers from 21st-Century America  will tour a selected group of venues in China September 2012-2014.  Here are images of the other 24 quilters' work on Flickr . The exhibition will tour to six venues throughout China: Shanghai Museum of Textile and Costume at Donghua University  in Shanghai Yunnan Nationalities Museum  in Kunming, Yunnan Province Guangxi Museum of Nationalities  in Nanning, Guangxi Province Venue  TBD  in Changsha, Hunan Province Dalian Modern Museum  in Dalian, Liaoning Province Women & Childrens Museum, Beijing (TBD) The Sum of Many Parts: 25 Quiltmakers from 21st-Century America is a program conceived and sponsored by the United States Embassy-Beijing. The exhibition and its tour throughout the People’s Republic of China has been jointly developed and managed by Arts Midwest and  South Arts , with