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Anne, Still An Artist, Still Making Art Quilts

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 17 May 21

She is getting noticed more too. Just a week or so ago, an alumni group from a a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania had seen the show that toured with her "Aleppo" piece in it and contacted Anne. They invited wanted her...

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80% Contained (Art quilt challenge)

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 18 Jan 19

A Studio Art Quilt Association (Oregon Chapter) challenge for a show called "On the Edge" was issued a while back. With the terrible fires and smoke that west coast states have endured this year, Anne was inspired. Further...

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Anne had a surprise buyer

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 23 Aug 18

For maybe two years this art quilt, "Willamette Valley Harvest", has been hanging in a pain management clinic here in town. They get to decorate the walls with art quilts from Anne's group and sometimes someone buys one. This...

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Anne is busy making heads

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 15 Aug 18

There is this global art quilt challenge for a show called "Forced to Flee." Throughout history people have been forced to flee from their homes for their own safety and survival due to war, oppression, natural disasters, and...

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San Antonio: The Alamo is still there

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 12 Apr 18

But we are not. We arrived back in Eugene Tuesday night about 9:30 on a packed 737 from Denver. Anne had the aisle seat and I was in the middle next to a guy in the window seat who was built like a fireplug. Legs and arms were far...

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What a sunrise we had today! Good News as well.

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 27 Feb 18

When I walked into the dining room at 6:50 AM the sky was so beautiful that I had to grab my camera and step out into the 25 degree F (-3.8 C) weather and take a photo or two. Anne was still asleep, and it changes so fast I did...

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Anne has a show for her art quilts

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 11 Jan 18

Here in this manufactured home park, where we live with a few hundred other people over 55, we have a pretty spacious club house. It will seat about 120 people for dinner. Some new people on the committee for the clubhouse...

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Off to Lincoln City, Oregon for an art quilt show

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 13 Oct 17

Anne has only one in this show, called her Bamian triptych, showing the Bamian Valley in Afghanistan before the Taliban blew the huge old Buddhas up. There is an artist's reception at 5 PM. We will stay in nearby Newport, Oregon...

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Going to Texas in April, Fly or Drive??

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 8 Oct 17

Not to stay, no way. I was born there though. Anne's Studio Art Quilters International is having their big conference in San Antonio, where i lived from ages 7 to 15. I have not been back since and have no relatives there. The...

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A spectacular bridge on a spectacular art quilt

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 18 Jul 17

Anne is still producing incredible art quilts and I think this one may be the most amazing yet (well, the one she is working on now may be even better). This quilt, measuring 32" x 44", depicts the first bridge that spanned the...

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We got back from our trip to the Oregon coast safely

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 15 Mar 17

It rained on us driving over the coast range on Friday, then was beautiful that afternoon in Yachats. My daughter and her Chihuahua arrived later that day and we had a great dinner at a really nice restaurant. Saturday, it...

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Third Best Sunset, Yachats, Oregon

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 1 Jan 17

Several years back, on a Thanksgiving Day, Anne and I went to our favorite coastal town in Oregon called Yachats (ya-hots). We took a number of photos there as always, including one of what a local pro photographer called the...

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This art quilt is called "Seagulls in Church"

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 17 Dec 16

At the Oregon coast, in the little town of Yachats (Ya-hots), we rounded a corner in a city park on a day with heavy rain, high winds and rough seas. A group of seagulls was sheltering in the lee of some rocks. A couple of them...

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On my own until Friday

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 22 Sep 16

Anne left yesterday afternoon for an hour's drive to Salem, Oregon where she will attend a regional art quilting conference. This time, she is more than attending; she is presenting a technique that quilters can use to "scrunch"...

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