only the earth lives forever

I've decided on this image for the Red Thread poster that's being printed by SEC graphics. A higher resolution than my little camera is capable of was needed and so Sarah Warburton took the photo.

Hand painted border fabric. Favourite shirt mounted on paper and then stitched. What is it? It's not a quilt. Not a painting. Neither. Both.

Everett fix

Our daughter sent us these awesome photos of the favourite toddler. They were taken a month ago, when he was 20 months. For those who need a little Everett fix.
photo by Oona Martin

L'il Abner and a monkey

Happy Birthday Dad!

red thread

I'm considering calling the exhibition in Gore Bay Red Thread. Nearly all of the work is about protection, is about life passages, and has some red thread in it.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was very important to my mother. I have been thinking a lot about her this month as the day approached. She celebrated mother's day instead of her birthday.

Flowers

We delivered my seven new flower paintings to the Perivale today. All of the artists at this gallery have been carefully selected by Sheila McMullan and while the work is lovely most is decorative. I have been working on several different bodies of work over the spring and am not sure that these flower paintings represent me anymore. However, they will be what I have to display this summer. I've also placed a (very nice)quilt there for the season as well.
At home later in the day, my youngest daughter and I did some weeding in the front flower bed. It's so nice to have had her at home this past week.

Watercolour on Cotton

In 2000, the Island Quilt Guild took on the millennium project of making a wildflower quilt to showcase the wide variety of wildflowers grown on this island. All of the applique patterns were derived from original drawings made by guild members. I remember that Joe Price was one of the guild members who made many of the drawings and that she helped me lead drawing sessions for those who were interested. This is one of my drawings for that quilt and I've since rendered it in watercolour on gessoed cotton. This morning I added stem stitch. This smoke flower painting is a new work and will be shown at the Perivale gallery this season.

Contacting Toronto

I love the way quilts look like when they are stacked. This vignette is in my home studio.
Our son is a photographer as well and has some photos in the Toronto contact festival.

Horse Barn on Townline Road

The sight of this barn roof has been a long time inspiration. Solvent transfer on fine linen. Metaphorically, isn't a roof like a quilt? They both protect. Sheet aluminum, engraved.

Going home

Driving back to Manitoulin today with our youngest.
pictured: Felt stitched to bridal satin.

April by Grace

Watercolour portrait of one daughter by another.

We found a poem by her today

My sister and I found this poem by my mother today.

The Cat That Walked by Himself

When I was just a child of three
Or was it four or five
At any rate since I recall
I must have been alive

When round about her garden fair
My mother walked with me
She whispered stories in my ear
From famous libraries

The cat that walked alone she said
Was very much my way
Of finding quite a special road
To choose to take each day

We had the book, I saw the page
The picture printed clear
So seeing it I once again
With memory hold it dear.

Pauline Johnson, 2002

I found another link using the high speed internet here in Kingston, true stitches(Canadian).

yellow green

I'm in Kingston for the weekend. While browsing my father's high speed internet I visted Serena Fenton's blog and she introduced a site for wire crochet, a technique I may be able to use in my current Opus assignment.
I also discovered another that has content close to my heart. Red Thread Studio: Slow Cloth by the writer on things ecological, Elaine Lipson.