An Expert Machine Quilter’ Blog
Seems recently I keep running across beautiful blogs of machine quilting experts who specialize in feathers.  Feathers appear simple and elegant. Most things that look simple to do are in fact challenging. Making complicated things appear easy is what the pros do.
Sally Bramald’s blog has a beautiful header which immediately draws [...]

Stitching together an artistic vision
BY ROBERT L. PINCUS, UNION-TRIBUNE ART CRITIC – SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 2010
Gallery director Beth Smith harnesses a passion for textile-related media: ‘It’s really rewarding to see artists change and surprise you’.

Museum Director: Beth Smith
Institution: Quilt Visions
Previous institution: Oceanside Museum of Art (director of development)
Current show: “Interpretations,” featuring [...]

acrylics artist an inspiration for quilt artists
Sedona, AZ artist Judy Choate is passionate about creating unusual fine art with her recent discovery of an abstract painting style not seen anywhere else.
Although she had taken watercolor art classes at community colleges and with private teachers, Judy’s recent switch to acrylic on canvas was a result of [...]

in the CQA Quilting News, August, 2009
Karen Braucher Tobin – Portland Writing Examiner
“What Remains”, Katsura Press, Portland, 2009
Margaret Chula, an internationally known haiku and tanka poet based in Portland, Oregon, teamed up with master quilter Cathy Erickson in 2002 through a project linking poets with quilters so that they could collaborate for one year. Chula’s [...]

a passion for the health benefits of creativity

Kathy McNeil’s background as a registered nurse for 35 years has shaped her approach and goals when teaching quilting classes. “I feel it is my job as a teacher to provide a playground for students
to learn, be inspired and nurtured while trying on new skills and having fun.”  [...]

in the CQA Quilting News – July, 2009
Winchester Star, Sandy Thompson, June 27, 2009
One step into Bea Grayson’s entry hall and you know that this is the home of an artist with a background in many cultures.
Grayson is a quilter and her pieces reflect many different influences.
“Sometimes my work is informed by things friends bring [...]

in the CQA Quilting News – July, 2009
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
What makes someone worthy of a lifetime achievement award?
If that someone is artist Tina Williams Brewer, it includes the refinement of artistic expression to a level that has earned international attention, an in-depth exploration of heritage that has been shared and [...]

Internationally Recognized Sylvia Einstein
early directions/current works
Born and educated in Basel, Switzerland, Sylvia Einstein has lived in the USA since 1965. Although she studied many textile techniques, after 1975 Sylvia has concentrated on making quilts.

She loves printed, eccentric fabric from all sources, and often sews collages of disparate patterned fabrics she calls crazy quilts. Sylvia says [...]