Artist’s Defeat
Coming to the last page of the calendar of 2025 meant for me, traveling to our family in Australia. At the same time I knew, this will keep me away from the sewing machine. Still, my plan was that I’ll use my precious fabrics from a screen-printing workshop for this
A Dream in Blue
One of my long-held dreams was to travel with my husband to see my work exhibited in an overseas quilt exhibition – to experience the exhibition together and turn it into a journey. That dream came true last year, and this piece was created to commemorate that joyful experience. The
Wishful Thinking
In my dream there is a place on earth of peace, space and love. A place where life is wonderful. A place of perfect freedom and happiness. A place where abundance reigns. A place full of color and sunshine. A place where there is no aggression, illness, misery or sorrow.
New Beginnings
I’ve taken to looking at some of my older quilts and wondering how I could reimagine them, cut them up or change them in some way. With the Dare to Dream prompt I was thinking of some recent milestones in our city of Christchurch, New Zealand, 15 years on from
The Dreamers
Crows seek connection, recognize, tolerate and sometimes enjoy humans. In my dream I am offering Dennis a peanut (Dennis is the most endearing hopping crow, my favorite) Shhhh…Don’t tell the others. Perhaps Dennis Hopper is also dreaming of this moment of trust and mutual regard. There is progress towards fulfilling
Migraine Tinsel
I have always felt that dreaming is a different state of being, one we cannot control, where our body and mind tell us the story, rather than our conscious mind stating the facts to our conscious self. For that reason, I’m interested in the circumstances that promote dreams for me.
I want to be a good perfomer
Have you ever dreamed that you were flying comfortably in the sky and suddenly fell from it? I wake up in such horror. When trying to accomplish something in real life, it is easy to hesitate when thinking about the timing, my abilities, people’s reactions, and the cost. Life is
Dare to Dream of a forest floor
5-5 Fallen Leaves Martha Ressler I have a modest but maybe impossible dream. I would like to live long enough to shuffle through the fallen dead leaves accumulated in our private forest. Since we planted it in 2020, the trees are not yet big enough to produce enough. I know
More Than Just a Room
I NEARLY MISSED THE MAGIC. It was 2016 in Philadelphia. I was there for a SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) annual conference. We were waiting for buses to come and take us to the Wayne Art Center to see an Art quilt exhibit. It was raining. The buses never came.
Journey Back to the Cretaceous!
I had to go all the way back to my elementary school years for this one. You could argue that I had to go back 70 to 66 million years. My first memory of school involved the study of dinosaurs. It was the first unit of the year, and maybe
Always Counting Steps!
I have always had a thing about counting my steps. As I kid it helped me to learn to count. As a high school student carrying many books I made sure I knew how many steps to get to the next level so I would not fall. Even when I