Suddenly with the onset of COVID19 we’ve come up with a whole new set of words to describe what is going on haven’t we? Before, “flattening the curve” was an easy fix: lay your newly sewn curve piece and press well thereby flattening it. That was easy! Now, it’s not so easy to fix the curve with mask wearing, confinement to homes, social distancing and the like trying to slow the progression of this new virus. So how did this affect us as art quilters?

As I ponder this, I’ve been busily sewing functional but aesthetic masks using up pieces I’ve loved from my stash in hopes that they will help someone else. I’m struggling with current challenges that seem remote from the immediate concerns and yet trying to find a way to express my feelings on all this. Are you in the same boat creatively??

Thank goodness I am working through the 100Day Project so I can add elements that remind me of these dramatic changes and issues. While only 3” mini quilts done daily, they now include faces with masks, images of people at computers and always a small section of gray mesh heavily beaded that indicates this Pandemic Cloud we are under. The project finishes at the end of this month but I feel like continuing to show the progression into summer.  Going past the 100 days? Why not? What artist hasn’t tried breaking the “rules”?  So check out these latest images: . .