​I am glad that there is now a term "fiber arts." I used to avoid talking about my work in part because I knew I would be considered a "quilter." There is nothing wrong with being a quilter, but what I do involves all of the decision-making required of most of the visual arts - through the use of color, composition, values, design, skills with the tools at hand, and more. Thus I like the sound of the "fiber arts," it's more versatile and gives the "quilter" more credit than a maker of blocks and squares arranged in a sandwich to be given away to the grandkids.

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I use the best quality of fabrics and threads and other tools of the craft to insure quality work. I work small because I have a small workspace, a small 1994 Pfaff sewing machine, and like being in a cozy warm room handling soft and colorful fabrics especially in the dark winter months. Having started out making a "Pioneer Quilt" of 12 traditional blocks, I since then have assembled a variety of types of quilts with formal patterns but which now have evolved into what I call "art quilts." I do a great deal of what is called "free motion quilting," and especially enjoy "color splash" works involving dramatic arrangements of colors produced through careful placements of hundreds of tiny squares into one dramatic "splash" of colors.