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Marking the Infinite

February 7, 2019

Marking the Infinite is the title of an amazing exhibit of women artists from Aboriginal Australia. Read more >

Categories: Exhibitions, Inspiration, Pattern Inspiration

Phenomenal City Museum

July 6, 2016

Hands down, the City Museum in St Louis is the most innovative space I have ever been in. It is a 600,000 square foot, multi-story work of art housed in the former International Shoe Company building. Read more >

Categories: Everyday Life, Pattern Inspiration, Travel

Free Form: My Art From the Early ’70s

June 9, 2016

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Over this past weekend, my 11-year old son decided to completely redo his room, which entailed taking everything off his walls that’s been up since he was two.  Read more >

Categories: Everyday Life, Pattern Inspiration

Billions of Beautiful Bewildering Barnacles!

September 23, 2015

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Somewhere along the way, barnacles have gotten a bad rap. Maybe from that time you were hopping across the rocks in your bare feet and landed on a particularly sharp bunch of them. Maybe because in its slang form, it refers to an unwanted person who follows you around and is a tenacious clinger-on, much like a barnacle is to a rock. Or perhaps you have internalized Captain Haddock’s ever-famous curse, “Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles!” from the Tintin comic series. Read more >

Categories: Pattern Inspiration

What’s in a Wall?

August 18, 2015

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Last week I was finally able to sit down and go through all of the photos I took this summer while traveling in Britain and Switzerland. In and amongst all of the scenery and “I was there” shots, I discovered my own tendency to shoot wall details. Read more >

Categories: Pattern Inspiration, Travel

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From Lori’s Notebook

  • Allan’s Wings

    Back in the winter of 2021 when my work was featured in What Women Create Magazine, I received a lovely email from Tricia in South Carolina who was touched by the article, enough so that she saved it in her files, knowing that one day she would reach out again.

  • From Lace to Snowflakes

    I was fortunate enough to have met both of my Austrian great-grandmothers.

  • Carmen’s Merienda

    It is always bittersweet when previous clients get back in touch to request a memorial quilt in honor of an additional family member who has passed away.

  • Kathy’s Waves
  • Mark’s van der Rohe

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