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Fiber Artist
I create healing stories out of fabric, and then I quilt them and write the story.
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My work combines:
My work combines:
Art
Education
Communicating / Sharing Stories
Day to Day
Every day I wake up, and I don't know if I'll be able to create or write that day. Many days I am busy managing my illness. On good days, I grab an idea-- a theme-- and I sit down with my fabrics and spend a couple of hours cutting out shapes for that theme. Then I start placing them on the "page," and filling in the empty spots. This process of filling the page might take two hours, it might take ten hours. I usually do it all in one go. Another day, I'll sit down and sew it all in place.
Advice for Getting Started
Here's the first step for professionals
Take a weekend workshop on a topic you find interesting, but never let yourself pursue before because it wasn't "really work." A friend paid for me to join her at a quilting workshop in 2007. I learned that you don't have to get the corners perfect to tell a story with fabric. And I learned to use a theme in pulling fabrics together for a piece. And it was okay that mine didn't look anything like what the "real quilters" were making. It was my first story quilt.