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Nancy Turbitt
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Artist using fabric and stitch. Storytelling through art. Loving nature & environment, women’s rights, lover of freedom and democracy, light & love

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This is my dad Al & his sis Ida & that’s my mom Nan. They met in SF at a USO dance - my dad was stationed in Hawaii after the attack. She had lost her fiancée in the Pacific, he saw unspeakable things. They loved this country enough to feel pain for it. We can’t let their suffering be for naught.
Man in Air Force uniform and a woman in a blazer and plaid skirt. It is an old black and white photo from 1941 when World War ll started for the US. My dad and my aunt as he was leaving home to be stationed in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor, after the attack. Dad saw all the destruction and was a radio decoder. Up late at night, listening to the airwaves, with the weight of the world on his shoulders as another attack was expected. A high school sepia photo of a girl in the late 1930’s. My mother, Nan, was raised on a ranch, Bonnie Brae, north of San Francisco. She met Woody in high school. They were going to marry after the war. He was a hot shot pilot, who enlisted right away and was stationed on a ship in the Pacific. The ship went down with him on it never to be seen again. Mom was devastated. She met Al in a USO event in San Francisco when he had a brief furlough after being sent to Pearl Harbor. They wrote to each other for the two years he was stationed there. Both mom & dad had lost due to the war. But both were patriots and loved this country. They were part of a flood of patriots who fought for freedom in World War ll. We owe it to every soldier killed and every woman working at home to support the effort throughout that time in history, to protect our country now as the framework of our democracy is under attack. Mom and dad are rolling in their graves, from the knowledge of the blatant authoritarian regime, so much like Hitler’s takeover of Germany, which is threatening our country. We need to stand united against authoritarianism and fascism as it has reared its ugly head here in the US. For those we love here and past.
September 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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It’s been a while. Not up to snuff yet dealing with more health issues. Sewing, no matter what it is, helps me cope with the sadness/stress of this deplorable regime and all the bad things they do. No to ICE, No to concentration camps, No to bad budgets, No to tariffs, No kings in the US, No to DJT!
Art quilt of a sea otter swimming behind two fronds of kelp on a deep teal background. Art quilt process detail of a school of tiny purple, pink and orange fish swimming on a light blue background Woman (me) with a green cap wearing her No Kings banner in the rain while walking a protest. I sew. So I made a banner with No Kings, Impeach, Convict, Remove and a slash through DJTs orange face. Many people listening to speeches behind in the rain.
July 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Budget bill in the Senate. Call your Senators. Target: Susan Collins (ME) @sensusancollins, Lisa Murkowski (AK) @senmurkowski, Mitt Romney (UT) @senatorromney, Bill Cassidy (LA) @senbillcassidy, Todd Young (IN) @sentoddyoung, Shelley Moore Capito (WV) @sencapito, Rand Paul (KY) @senatorrandpaul.
May 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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I haven’t posted in a while due to an illness. I’m recouping well now and 2 of my kids gave me a day’s work in my garden as a birthday present. Flowers and plants soon to come. My hands in the earth on Earth Day!!!
Empty garden with rock pathways. Decking in the foreground. My daughter setting a stone path in the center. Brown earth in front area. Son with rototiller digging up an old garden. My daughter behind watching.
April 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Love and light. Take care of yourselves and those you love. I hope you find a little joy today!
April 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Tide pools look altogether different off season. Sea grasses are brown, the water is icy cold and crystal clear. It just doesn’t feel right. Much like our government right now - it just doesn’t feel right. I yearn for better days, warmer days. Stay safe on your marches today everyone. Resist!
Blue sky at the top creates a horizon line. Browned sea grass on the right, rivulets of tide water on the left. Taken on Cape Cod in early March on a very cold and windy day.
April 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Fusing and stitching the first two back to back book pages. Can’t wait to get into the transparency of the jellies. Trying so hard not to give in to the terror and fear of tyranny. I have a DJT follower in my family and it’s ripping us apart. How are some of you coping with that? Feeling isolated. 😳
Progress artwork on my work table. Blue water background art quilt with some small violet and orange schooling fish under the waves. Tissue patterns of the next three fish. My small scissors, a scrap pile of clippings and my fabric pieces. All are sitting on my green grid cutting mat. Drawing of jellyfish in pencil on my layout for the next page of the book. Will be using this drawing to cut out pattern pieces in batiste and organza to make the jellyfish.
April 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Feeling a little “growl-y” tonight for some reason. So I found the wolf, the dragon and the cougar. All 3 are older quilts. Not liking that the Smithsonian has become a target of DJT now. Growl!!! Don’t mess with our arts!
Close up photo of a graphic drawn wolf’s face. Red tongue, white triangle teeth piercing blue eyes. He is made of wool houndstooth fabrics on batik cotton fabrics and sewn with satin stitching. Orange silk fabric dragon with green silk fabric underbelly and large white teeth. Fabric face of a cougar outlined with yellow. Pink nose, blue and yellow eyes, white tufts of fur against the caramel brown fur. All cotton hand-dyed fabrics.
March 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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My SSA pmt went thru today. I get paid last Wed of every mo. I’m relieved to get it this month. Anybody out there missing their payment?April’s pmt could be sketchy, call Congress daily to intercede & if you are in one of the districts where there is a vote on April 1, please help get out the vote .
Purple crocus flower with its green leaves growing up out of dirt and twigs.
March 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Political insanity has driven me to my studio daily. Update on Kelp lll is that all the machine stitching is done and I have begun couching in the green fronds with wool and cotton threads. Night activity with TV binging. I’m starting Balena’s book cover, cutting and fusing pieces. Sewing soon.
Close up of green, gold and brown kelp fronds and blue background. Textured hand stitching in the green areas. Green, gold and brown fabric kelp leaves on a blue background. Thumb and index finger holding a needle couching thick wool thread with thin cotton thread. Beginning fabric pieces of a wave on light blue water with pale blue sky. Paper patterns of little fish in the foreground with the original drawing peeking from the right side. This is the beginning cover page of Balena the mermaid protectress’ fabric book.
March 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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What is going on with Social Security? Acting Soc. Sec Head, Leland Dudek threatened, "I want to turn it off." 🔥 (shut down SSI payments to 73 million), in response to Judge's ruling yesterday blocking activities by EM & DOGE. Bloomberg News. Have you got your payment yet? Feeling angry & worried!
March 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Boy it’s been a tough week for us average people! How much more can this horrid regime take away and break! I’m attempting focusing not only on studio work but it’s getting springy outside. Long walks clear my head. Snowdrops make me hopeful. Here, have some snowdrops on me….
March 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Sometimes progress just takes time. I keep telling myself that as I eke out small steps in my studio. One step in front of the other brings us to a new place. Change is inevitable. Change will happen in the studio & in the world. Control what you can, let go of what you can’t. Breathe. Light & love.
March 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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What do you do when your entire lifestyle and existence is threatened? Besides congressional phone lines on speed dial, angry letters, and sending money to elect people in other states? I make messes in my studio, sew a lot, draw a lot, and plan a lot. Dig in people, it’s our future. Love and light.
March 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Ready for stitch. This is a 2 week project. 1st week cutting and piecing. Done. This piece will entail a different technique, yarn couching on the surface, to create leaf texture. Political mess has me deep diving into creativity to uncover my strength and sanity. #art #quiltsky
February 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Trying so hard to channel love, light and hope. A new piece emerges with more kelp. Planning stages of a future exhibit. Future? I am worried the US is going down like a sinking ship. Fight, protest, resist - our freedom, our lives depend on our resolve, now.
February 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Everyday I feel a bit like this, hiding in the kelp. Our United States is such a political mess. Here are two pieces; the first a detail from Invisible and the second called Habitat-Kelp. Both focus on the need for healthy kelp forest habitats with Balena the mermaid and a sea otter. #art #quiltsky
Green kelp leaves with their pods float upward while a young mermaid’s face hides among the leaves. Blue water background. Green and brown kelp leaves and their pods float upward in a blue sea. The head of a sea otter comes into view from the left behind the kelp stem.
January 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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The artist is feeling a little “black” today for obvious reasons. But I’m honoring Dr Martin Luther King Jr with his words today, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Wishing all of you love and light today. Peace 🕊️
January 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I always forget how much time is involved in the piecing and cutting and ironing….before you get to play with the threads. One of my minis is close to being ready for thread painting. Feels so good to be playing with color. Took my mind off of judicial disappointments today. #art #quiltsky
January 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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I’ve taken a few weeks for family holiday time. It has been a nice respite. My family always know what kind of things I love to find under the tree. Hubs gave me a plethora of colored thread. Oooh baby! I’m just itching to start in. And tomorrow is studio time ALL day long 😁 #art #quiltsky #threads
January 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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My husband called the social corner of my studio “cozy” the other day. I collect fun memorabilia about bees, Scotland, old buttons, nests-feathers-seeds from my property, artwork, toys & tins, old Christmas trinkets. Together they make “cozy”. Hope you are taking time to enjoy your winter holidays.
Atop my studio bookcase are trinkets and Christmas trinkets from another time. A Doodlesack box with it’s child-sized miniature bagpipe in front, Scotland playing cards, a highland “coos” box, beehive tin, old wood and felt Santa, tiny deer, ornaments, wood cutout beehive, wooden snowman, bit of a painting on the wall in back left, amaryllis in a jar with jars of buttons in back right. Atop my studio bookcase, big jars of buttons in back left, a “jar of wishes” with dandelion puffs inside, a tin “N”, ornaments, a jar of feathers and shells picked up on my walks, tiny deer, a sparkle paper house, a wooden and felt angel, a felted nest with felted eggs in front.
December 16, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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I discovered uranium buttons this weekend in response to a customer in my Etsy shop. I’ve been collecting buttons about 10 years now and never run across this. Shine a black light on antique white glass and if it glows green, it is made with uranium. Only trace amounts. It’s a treasure hunt for me.
Sewing buttons glowing green under the light of a black light. White sewing buttons displayed on a palm.
December 15, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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My little 5” x 5” landscapes are beginning. On the top right I have begun to work fabrics for a beach scene. I should be ready to sew that one soon. Picked up some frames for them so they can go into my shop when they’re done. Can you tell I love split rail fences. #art #quiltsky
Photographs of landscapes
December 12, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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I don’t know how people in very rainy places like Seattle or the UK keep a sunny disposition. I’m struggling with only one week of rain. My need for sunnier times has me looking through some older touched up Cape Cod landscapes for inspiration for the next set of 5” mini quilts. #art #quiltsky
Farmhouse and red outbuilding with fully leafed out trees beyond and a green field stretched in front with an angled post fence from left to right going off to the distance. Field of autumn colored grasses with a curved path leading to the left with a bank of dark trees lining the horizon. White clouded sky. Field of green grasses with an outcropping of brambles on the right. Some patches of blue sky in a primarily cloudy sky. Post and rail fence cutting from left front corner to right top corner on a sandy beach path with beach plum and rosa rugosa plants and grasses beyond.
December 11, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Named “Luna”, there is something about this one I have loved from the start. Perhaps it’s the scrumptious hand dyed fabrics of the moth, or maybe the texture of the tree. But whatever, it’s one of my heart’s favorites. #art #quiltsky
December 8, 2024 at 4:16 PM