about deborah dyson
			Quilting and fabric transport me into a world of color - a world alive with movement and interplay, light and darkness, creativity and substance.  It gives me great joy to experiment and create in fabric.  I have no official artistic credentials, just a love for color and fabric and texture.   Although I have only recently begun quilting, in the past I have enjoyed various forms of needlework, and for many years worked with stained glass.   My first quilt was a watercolor quilt, "Awake!"    It was an absorbing and fascinating challenge, working with my "palette" of 2 inch squares and creating eddies of light and color and movement!  I was enthralled! Next came "Inner Sanctum," a Bargello quilt in shades of ultramarine, purples, lavenders and greens - gilded with hints of gold.  The colors spoke of harmony and inner calmness, a retreat into peacefulness and quiet. I've also been working with traditional quilting blocks.  "Dancing Angels" is a traditional wall hanging - very soft and muted and completely hand quilted.  All my life I have admired quilts, in awe of the tremendous amount of time and creativity required to "birth" one of these fabric creations... for quilting can truly be a labor of love.  Quilts link us to the past and, as the art of qulting continues to be transformed by new streams of ideas and technologies, it will also be a part of our future.   I value both its rich heritage and its bright tomorrow. I would also enjoy doing custom work.  It would be fun and a challenge to interact with you to create something new, a special gift, a new idea.   Please email me a deborahdyson@yahoo.com if you are interested in something you see on my site, or would like something custom made. Please come again.  I would love to share my new creations with you.