Catching the eye, delighting the soul.
September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and I wanted to make a special mosaic in honor of my sister-in-law Gail and my friend Lynn Lunger, who are both Ovarian Cancer Survivors. Teal is the color of Ovarian Cancer Awareness, and it is an apt color, since it changes from blue to green depending on [...]
Imagine coming upon this door! What world of the imagination did it come from and were does it lead? Stratoz and I were at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA this weekend, and amid the Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings we saw Phillip Lloyd Powell’s Door and Surround. I sat down on a bench [...]
Once a year, Stratoz goes on a silent spiritual retreat at the Jesuit Center at Wernersville, and last year he took this photo of beautiful orange stitchery, and this slip of paper proclaiming, Enjoy! It is God’s will! What a surprising admonition! I have heard “God’s will” invoked as involving sacrifice, or doing something painful, [...]
Tinyiko Sewing Project from the Topsy Foundation More Wordless Here.
Yesterday was Stratoz’s birthday, and he asked me to take a photo of him in our front yard, by the brand new Sunflower, holding a sheet of glass destined for a lizard stepping stone for Snowcatcher. Gardens and glass are two of Stratoz’s favorite things, so this is an apt portrait, and also the final [...]
When I wrote earlier about my Fruit of the Spirit Mobile that I painstakingly stitched from polyester double knit, my mother emailed this photo to me, as she has it hanging in her dining room. I had forgotten how pleased I was with the pineapple of Goodness, and the plaid on a diagonal for texture! [...]
I came across Orange Tuesdays from Shengkay’s Randomness Journal, and was smitten with the idea immediately! I am an orange person. I never knew this until I started making art, and was drawn to orange in whatever form from luscious juicy orange, to burnt orange to blazing orange. I have found that orange lovers [...]
There are times when I read something and wonder if I am having a particularly strange dream, such as the headline “Royal Couple Make Mandalas in LA.” Thanks to a post yesterday by mandala artist Lillian Sizemore, I discovered this actually happened at the Inner-City Arts Studio, a non-profit that provides art classes to students [...]
If you want to combine a beautiful park, having fun making art, a bbq and raising funds for the worthy cause of Be the Light of the Party's June party for homeless men at Saint John's Hospice in Philadelphia, check out this event, Be Your Own Artist BBQ, created by two talented women, Lili Wang [...]
In March of 2011, Stratoz and I received our biggest commission yet. Our friends Gary and Suzanne Halstead have a wall in their yard, overlooking the labyrinth they created last summer. The space serves host to retreats and labyrinth walkers, and Suzanne had a vision of the wall mosaiced in the style of our Nutmeg [...]
Nutmeg Designs Custom House Number in Amber 1770
Nutmeg Designs Custom House Number in Amber 1770
Sunset Spiral Mandala by Margaret Almon
Sunset Spiral Mandala by Margaret Almon
Sunset Spiral Mandala by Margaret Almon
Helix Nebula Mandala by Margaret Almon
Blue Sky Spiral in the Light
Custom House Number 46 in Blue and Yellow by Nutmeg Designs
Hope Rainbow Mosaic by Nutmeg Designs
Blue Skies Spiral Mandala for Suzi
Chinese Coins Quilt Pattern in Mosaic
Log Cabin Quilt Mosaic in Orange and Pink
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