It has been a LONGGG time since I have posted anything on a blog, let alone this blog. Today is Wednesday, March 2, 20212. We are into our third year with COVID19 and all of it's closures, shut downs, mask/nomask, vacs, boosters. It has been over a year since I decided to close my studio space. It was difficult to continue to pay rent for a space I could not use - for six months. I felt like a failure. I felt like I had nothing left. I sat at home and wondered what the heck...is this a bad dream or what? I am so sure that hundreds if not millions of others were thinking the same thing. Never in my lifetime had I ever imagined what was going on in our world. It was a Sci-Fi movie...and not a good one.
Anyway, with the onset of Covid in early 2020, masks and hand sanitizer were impossible to find. So, like hundreds of thousands of others, I pulled out and dusted off my old sewing machine so I could make masks for us and family and friends. While digging around for fabric, I ran across a stash of fabric that I had brought back from Kauai a number of years before. This is where things changed for me. I just couldn't get my self to cut up the beautiful batik fabrics to make masks. I tried, a couple of times bring the scissors right up to the edge of the dark navy blue fabric with whales and dolphins so perfectly placed. I could not get myself to cut into that fabric, it had a bigger purpose...I just didn't know what it was...yet. Then it hit me! A quilt! these fabrics are suppose to be a quilt! And so the story begins, or continues. I guess that all depends on how you look at things.
I started down a path of making a couple of quilts, to help keep me busy and sane. I so enjoyed the simplicity and for me zen of sewing and putting fabrics together to create a beautiful quilt. Since then, I have made over 50 quilts. I have donated quite a few to fire victims, and other local charities in need of quilts, gave a few as gifts and sold a fair amount. I love the process and just like my photography, I have a very distinct style and I LOVE IT!
I have not stopped photographing, but I have stopped pushing myself so hard. I have a few ideas where the two (Photography and quilting) will be merging..sort of! Stay tuned for that!
With all of the changes that have taken place over the last couple of years, I have come to the conclusion... I am a maker! I love to make things (not all things), I love to create things. I love designing. I now take time doing what I love doing. I am tired of cooking though.
Thank you for coming along on my journey!
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