I love you every day

How one lives as a private person is intimately bound into the work.  At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

 

If we are to understand the human condition , and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self doubt, extravagance of feeling guilt, joy,

the slow feelings of the self to its full capacity for action and creation both as human beings and as artists, we have to know all we can about each other and we have to be willing to go naked.

images: cottage time with our younger daughters (the aunties)
              and oldest grand daughter (4 years)
text:  May Sarton 

my maia quilt

Recently, I've been putting my stitching time into the baby quilt.
I've been using red thread to outline the applique shapes and also to quilt in a dense pebble grid.

The texture of this piece is the most important thing.
Those applique shapes are velvet.. the grey and tan shapes dyed with plants.

It's an easy project to work on when I am traveling - not too big.
6 months so far of work on this piece
(the baby is 15 months and walking)

We visited our Toronto babies over the weekend.

Finally the ice is melting, and I photographed it from the car window
when we drove north and home.

The ice patterns remind me of the applique shapes
in my maia quilt,

 

and the texture of the stitching
reminds me of nature's way with small repeated marks.

Big sister liked the velvet dots on the quilt
and sang to them as she touched them one by one.

'watch the water glitter with excitement.

when we cut below the silver skin of the surface

the center retains its fluidity'

C.D. Wright