Some of the amazing student work from my Intro to Textile Collage class with NSCAD Extended Studies this spring. It was a great class and I’m feeling very inspired to get back to English Paper Piecing!

Works by Victoria, Charlit, Mary and Jolene

That’s a wrap on the winter session of my quilt class, Stitched Stories, with NSCAD Ext Studies. Just a few quilts from a class of great projects. Thankful for my lovely students, their hard work, enthusiasm and great conversations! I’m offering a new class in the spring, details to come!

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Come paint with me this summer!

I'm teaching Let's Make a Mural! during Red Deer Polytechnic's Series Summer workshops.

Learn more on RDP's website (and more about the class below!)
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I love this collection of appliquéd blocks from students in my quilt class, Stitched Stories, with NSCAD Extended Studies. They’ll be piecing their quilt tops next!

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Stunning view from my quilt class with NSCAD Extended Studies. A little bit of everyday magic.

Fighting the February blues by making gay little valentines 💌

Quilt I made for a raffle last year during the Great Halifax Clothing Swap in support of Laing House (a peer support organization for youth). Amazing photos by @boyshouts.bsky.social ♥️

𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦, 2024, made from end of life dress shirts, and bedlinen

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This is a Dresden Plate variation made as a gift. This might be one of my favourites for texture, I love the way the echo quilting meets the rigidity of the gridded stitches.

𝘛𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴, 2022, new and secondhand cottons, machine pieced, hand appliquéd and quilted

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Third in this memory quilt series. One of my favourite things is to include the curved hem of a shirt along the edge - a subtle disruption to the quilt’s rectilinear shape.

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𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘐𝘐𝘐, saved garments, machine pieced and hand quilted.

Mary Lee Bendolph has received the prestigious Anonymous Was A Woman grant, honoring her lifetime contributions to art. This award celebrates women artists often overlooked by institutions and underscores the importance of amplifying underrepresented voices in the art world.

Second in this memory quilt series. For this one I wanted to maintain more of the architecture of the clothes, especially curves from sleeves and collars, and focusing on large blocks of bold colour.

𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘐𝘐, 2023, saved garments, machine pieced and hand quilted

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Revisiting old work in this new space.

A memory quilt commission from 2022. 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘐, made from saved garments. Machine pieced and hand quilted.
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Winter studio days. Finding short bursts of time to continue this new work still in its very early stages - improv English Paper Piecing using one of my grandfather’s dress shirts. Enjoying how each piece dictates the next and the pattern disruption. It’s a bit wild but excited to see where it goes.