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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

  • Judith’s Seasons – Spring

    This is the second of four posts showcasing a series of quilts I’m making for Judith and her family in Cologne, Germany. The series is based on the four seasons, with each season consisting of one wall hanging and one large bed quilt.

  • Ellie’s Spirals

    Fun fact about the amazing Ellie Clarkson: not only was she an unrelenting Scrabble shark, but she also had a thing for spirals.

  • Gus’s Vermont Mountain

    This is the view that Gus loved seeing out of his living room in Vermont.

  • Judith’s Seasons:Winter
  • Allan’s Wings

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