by andrea | May 19, 2022 | Blog, Quilts
Fat Quarterly No. 6, from Keephouse X 3rd Story Workshop is ready for the world! This edition of Fat Quarterly is a cheerful colour palette. The quilt pattern is what I call “ordered improvisational piecing” and is perfectly suited to new improv quilters. An...
by andrea | Jun 9, 2021 | Art, Blog
In October 2019, I began a collaborative process with Cally Booker, a weaver located in Dundee, Scotland. Through the Dr. Sandra Alfoldy Craft Institute at NSCAD University, five craft artists from Scotland were matched with five craft artists in Nova Scotia were...
by andrea | Jul 16, 2020 | Blog, Canada, Colour, Quilts
When I wrote this article about Classic Blue, the 2020 Pantone Institute’s Colour of the Year, I had no idea that the year that would ensue would reflect exactly the projections: Classic Blue represents calm and stability in an uncertain world. Fat Quarterly No....
by andrea | Oct 4, 2018 | Art, Blog, Community, Have You Met, Our Song, Quilts
As the crowdfunding campaign for Our Song, Your Reflection was unfolding in May and June of this year, I asked a few quilting friends — new and old! — to each make a star block. It could be paper pieced from the original pattern, their own star invention,...
by andrea | Oct 2, 2018 | Art, Blog, Canada, Community
Last December, as I reflected on the year that had passed, I came to the conclusion that an overarching goal in 2018 would be “to learn how to be an artist.” Let me now qualify that with an adjective: “To learn how to be a professional artist.”...
