Small details are always grabbing my attention. It might be the shape of a tree that has lost its leaves, pine needles swirled into patterns, or just a random shape that I notice in a magazine ad. I want to remember those details for myself and to show them to other people--look at how beautiful this is! That is where my quilts begin.

I work the detail, whatever it is, into a quilt design several ways--with drawings, photographs and tracings of photographs, paper collages, or small studies made with fabric scraps. I don’t know what the resulting quilt will look like when I start a project (sometimes I think I do, but I am usually wrong). Quilting, as a medium, with its layers of fabric and stitch, suits my design style since I also build my ideas in layers.

My quilts are complex and subtle. The images are often ambiguous: combinations of geometric and organic lines, varying depth of field, and many surface textures. I make them to say--this is our complicated world. They don’t try to shock or teach the viewer. I offer them as pointers to inspiration and wonder.