Virginia A. Spiegel

My good cyber-friend Dawn Goldsmith has a very personal interest in the fight against ALS.  She has all the details about her local ALS Chapters’s newest fundraiser, a quilt raffle, on her great Subversive Stitchers blog.  

Go and visit Dawn’s blog or go right to the raffle quilt information and donate to this good cause.  I did! I made about 50 traditional quilts before I discovered art quilts, so I appreciate the work that goes into a queen size quilt.  

Trish Bowman of Jersey Girl Quilts pieced and quilted the queen size quilt.  It includes Hoffman batiks and colors were chosen to reflect hope and joy and a bright future. It is an Eleanor Burns pattern of double tulips. 

I’m just like a new parent.  So proud, so excited.

My book, The Garbage Day Project: Garbage, Art, and Recycling, is now available here.

Based on my The Garbage Day Project blog, this book is an artistic and humorous look at the amazing (by that I mean shocking) amount of garbage set out each Tuesday in my small subdivision.

The rules: Use only my Coolpix camera and no moving or touching anything.

The result:  Garbage as you have never seen it before.

It’s an 8×10″ landscape format book and you can preview the first fifteen pages. Unlike some books with many blank pages, this one is stuffed with photos.

And while we are on the topic of environmental issues, do stop by Dawn Goldsmith’s blog, Subversive Stitchers:  Women Armed with Needles, for concrete suggestions for fiber artists that can help the environment.