a new quilt taking shape

I've been asked to create a memorial quilt for Ruth Anne from the clothing of her mother, Dolores Wolfe. Ruth Anne began this quilt herself in the Passage Quilting™ Workshop that I taught in Cincinnati last fall. She asked me to continue the quilt and finish it for her.

So here are Dolores' clothes. As I began cutting to preserve certain architectural features, a vocabulary of shapes and images began to emerge...

Trees, mountains, peaks, knolls and valleys... Can you see them?

Always at the start of something new, a few simple shapes mysteriously bubble to the surface. The unknown begins to be known in this way.

After two months of moving, and settling I have begun my first quilt in my new studio, in a new spring. I'm wondering about the shapes mysteriously surfacing in my life right now...

A new acceptance of myself, a sense of peace with where I am, renewed attention to my creative life, joy in having my own space to live and grow.