This week I’m digging a new quilt pattern – Bending Tree by Ricky Tims. What better pattern for a gardener?! Ricky is one of my favorite online quilting personas. I’ve had the good fortune of attending one of his quilting talks and he is every bit as engaging in real life as he is on The Quilt Show. I ordered one of his quilt kits and it arrived this week. I tried to capture the rich colors in the pattern…
art & spirituality
September 19, 2016Julia Cameron makes the statement “Art is a spiritual transaction.” In fact, it is the very first sentence in the introduction to the 10th anniversary edition of The Artist’s Way. I suppose that belief depends on one’s outlook, as do many things. She points out that artists throughout the centuries have spoken of inspiration coming through God or the angels. Steven Pressfield has some really cool things to say about this topic in The War of Art. He quotes Xenophon, an…
