Keeping myself in gratitude, I’m sharing #thankfulthursday posts on Instagram highlighting the generous teachers who have inspired me and upskilled me in pursuit of my #passionsandpastimes. Today, thank you to @carolina_oneto for her help with curves, color transparencies in quilts, and modern paper piecing. Don’t judge her talent by my photos – mine are the work of a student, hers are the work of an artist, check them out.

This piece started with a workshop block exploring creating transparency effects and learning modern paper piecing techniques.  Then, it grew to more blocks.  And now, apparently I will be big stitching the whole thing, forever, because I’m loving how it feels and the designs showing up on the back, and the meditation of it all.  This link will show a quick video how it has been evolving