Category Archives: Art

Generous Hearts and Nimble Fingers

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Luana

Friday was a busy day here! Our friends Danny Amazonas and his wife Pat came by to visit our new building. You may recall that I filmed a video interview with Danny at the Tokyo Quilt Festival in January 2016. … Continue reading →

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Creative Nudge – Heart & Mind

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Luana

We just got home from the Sacred Threads event Monday night, and our weekend gave us a lot to think about. Somehow we had several conversations about Left Brain and Right Brain, so it seemed appropriate to share this quilt … Continue reading →

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Hello from Washington DC!

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Luana

Sophie and I have been attending the Sacred Threads weekend event in Herndon Virginia near Dulles Airport. In addition to seeing the quilt exhibit, there is a concurrent SAQA event, and Quilt Alliance activities going on during these few days. … Continue reading →

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Creative Nudge – Believe in Magic

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Luana

Do you believe in Fairies? When I was a girl, I loved to spend time with my Great Aunt Temple. She was a rebel painter who loved to paint purple flowers, especially Violets and Thistles, just to rile up the … Continue reading →

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Making a Masterpiece

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Luana

This time last year I was in the forests of Northern Sweden, as a chaperone with Sophie’s Swedish Fiddle & Folk Music tour. This last week over the Solstice, I kept having flashbacks to the land of my mother’s ancestors…the … Continue reading →

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Creative Nudge – A Special Kind of Crazy

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Luana

O.M.G. I am so crazy about this group of fabrics, I just had to make a quilt design concept and share with you tonight. Lately I have felt like the market has been so oversaturated with plain flat childlike artwork, … Continue reading →

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Creative Nudge – Quilt National 2019

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Luana

Sunday I got home from Quilt National at the Dairy Barn in Athens Ohio. (Monday I put Sophie on a plane to Italy – her high school orchestra is touring and performing in 4 European countries!) Now I have some … Continue reading →

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Cross Pollination

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Luana

It is gratifying to see the amount of cross-pollination going on between the major quilt festivals and exhibits around the world, and I hope that I have contributed a tiny bit to that mutual inspiration. I have been very lucky … Continue reading →

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Creative Nudge – Our Lady – Notre Dame

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Luana

Often we don’t appreciate what we have until it is lost. Many of us felt this as we watched 850 year old Notre Dame burning yesterday. Today there are hundreds of millions of Euros/Dollars pledged for her rebuilding, but it … Continue reading →

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QuiltCon in Nashville

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Luana

This morning I caught a 6 am flight home from Nashville, after attending the Award Ceremonies and 2 days of QuiltCon. The weather was drizzly and cold but the colorful quilts and enthusiastic high spirits made up for the weather … Continue reading →