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I’ve been thrilled to spend the last three weeks here in New Zealand, visiting my son Evan and his partner, Rosara and our granddaughter Mira for the month. It’s a paradise here- kind of a cross between Northern California and Tahiti and a great metropolitan area all at once. For the most part, the weather…

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Happy New Year my friends and followers!  It feels like a fresh, new time in my life. I have ended certain business relationships in my life, and have opened new ones. I have integrated fiber more and more into my work- both in my jewelry and work to hang on the wall. I am excited…

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I am back from Kansas City, and the Brookside Art Annual last weekend. It was a good show, with all kinds of crazy midwestern weather- winds, rain, cold-damp, sun- all over the board. I showed my new textile work for the first time, and it was a resounding success. I sold one of the Fiber…

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It’s been such a long time since I have posted here in my blog. Between Covid, and shows and so much work I can hardly handle, something had to give. I will try to get back to blog posts more regularly! In the meantime, enjoy this new and very rough video that I made of…

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I often have to juggle things in my life. I always have, and I always seem to thrive in an environment of multi-tasking. I make my living in various ways, and lately I have had a lot of work designing for my job with the knitters in Nepal. I was very busy earlier with deadlines…

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I have been in love with textiles since I was a girl. I sewed buttons onto cloth with mother when I was 3 or 4, and made my first cross stitch sampler when I was 9.  Eventually,  it became my whole world. I always sewed my own clothes, embroidered on jeans (this was the 60’s…

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We are in the depths of winter in Colorado right now. There is traditionally quite a lot of snow in March. But who knows about the weather these days? I was enchanted by the sun coming through my window as I worked this morning, while finishing another Interwoven Cuff. I am crazy about this new…

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      I continue to be captivated by the work of Paul Klee. This weekend I created another “Interwoven Cuff” inspired by one of his paintings from 1929, “Fire In The Evening.” Initially I was drawn to this painting simply in terms of its color- it’s cool, earthy dark-is blue and purple tones, sparked…

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Sorry I have been incommunicado for a while! Between the virus and the election and being incredibly busy with work (good stuff), I haven’t been able to carve out the block of time to post on this blog. But I’m back. I plan to get back to it at least a couple times a week…

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