process & piles & people
monthly snapshots ::: studio space
August 2024
finishing Hattie’s quilt ~ a studio sesh collaging with Kash & Greta ~ couch sewing ~ mini quilts ~ delivering Hattie’s quilt to Tampa ~ signs from the universe in the form of purple salon chairs (8/16 & 8/30) ~ reorg of space / projects ~ main four ~ finishing the raffle quilt ~ Memory Collectors stickers
July 2024
finishing CARL/E quilt ~ Rebecca stops by on her Summer visit to the states ~ mailing out story sales ~ Memory Collectors at Art Fair ~ an unexpected message of Trust from the universe on the bike path kiosk (07/01/24) ~ returning to old WIP quilts ~ dusting off collage piles ~ a warm studio night with pizza and ice cream with Liz, Tammy, Isabel and Noelia <3 ~ leather thimbles from MJ grad gown scraps
June 2024
finally Molly gets to visit! ~ continuing work on projects; CARL/E, Multitudes, and Hattie quilts ~ lots of sharing my art with the world ~ selling out on first story sale ~ prototyping envelopes for a commission
May 2024
prepping for gallery night with G ~ Open Invite —> first public open studio with lots of new & known guests (Friday, May 3, 2024) ~ suspended quilts ~ my niece is born! ~ talking magnets and hooks with Sam ~ more vanishing circles ~ working more on CARL/E quilt ~ worked on Quilt-boat for the Bounty Raingutter Regatta
April 2024
6x6 piece for ALL fundraiser ~ making OTE artists buttons ~ Bryce visits from Nashville! ~ finish Charles Quilt ~ starting CARL/E piece ~ more loose leaf quilts ~ piles, projects, piles
March 2024
Jennie B comes for a studio visit ~ finish pieces for smash & smush ~ loose leaf prototyping ~ finish and photograph multitudes quilt ~ cutting t-shirts ~ progress on Charles quilt ~ juggling projects ~ start of vanishing circles ~ mom, Lynn & Tami visit ~ finishing Aunties Quilt
February 2024
new blue rug delivered by my parents ~ auntie quilt WIP ~ new sewing machine! ~ Tay and Tay’s first studio visit ~ studio day with the Nash crew ~ meeting Mary and her little dog ~ studio naps ~ continued hand-stitching on multitudes quilt ~ collage piece for OTE exhibit ~ Balsley swing-in
January 2024
fresh coats of paint ~ new year reset ~ trust ~ whispering pine // pine whisper ~ reorganizing ~ purging ~ mini fridge & a tea station ~ overlap of a few too many projects ~ Christine & Maria helping paint ~ secret lil collab ~ Paul & Steph’s first visit ~ meeting Juniper! ~ boxes of gray felt ~ process walls ~ hemming curtains for my studio neighbor ~ Joe & Mak visit after their baby shower ~ collaging a portrait for OTE exhibition
December 2023
J^2 A^2 visit over the holidays ~ pegboard installed ~ start of collaborative scrap piece with some help ~ more memory quilt experiments ~ G’s first time seeing the studio ~ project talks with Sam ~ new doormat ~ xmas table runners ~ prep for auntie quilt with some help ~ fabric haul from Alicia ~ patience zine written ~ more unpacking, reorganizing
November 2023
wonky letters ~ Kam & Brae’s first visit ~ making signs for Whit’s race ~ tiny aprons ~ a quilt is something human in process ~ start on the memory quilt ~ testing paint ~ rocks for sale on my block ~ Lesley’s visit & a tarot reading ~ Anna’s bday candles after Ahan ~ fabric scraps for a friend’s junk journal ~ piles & piles
October 2023
when it all started ~ celebratory JPH breakfast after signing the lease ~ help from friends moving in ~ clearing out my apartment ~ my parents bringing up some marketplace finds ~ celebratory burgers at Harmony ~ Kar & E visit while in town ~ paint samples ~ the wrong rug ~ a secondhand purple couch ~ S&W pop in one night ~ meeting new studio mates in passing ~ making lots of wonky letters