A few days ago I visited my friend Judy in her studio. Judy is a whirlwind and swirl of creative activity and movement. Her barn studio is packed, crammed, and layered with quilts, fabric, books, and threads. It is a feast for the eyes. Just to stand there and take in the symphony of colors and line and textures makes my happy. Judy has a longarm quilting machine which takes up one end of her studio. I find it fascinating to see what she is quilting on her machine. On this day she was finishing one of her own quilts, a lone star design with an explosion of bright colors. Behind her longarm are two walls of shelves with hundreds of cones of threads. There are at least fifty oranges to choose from, and maybe twice as many blues. On one end of her machine is a large silver pin holder which is atop a stand....I always look. The pins tell a story about the quilts she has worked on. I see purple and yellow headed pins today. I look at the bin of trimmings, hoping to find bits and pieces that could maybe find their way into my fiber art.
Amy and Opal are two artists living in different states on the west
coast who have teamed up to create fiber art together. Their journey
and process is captured here.
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