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Joy Troyer

Monthly Piece of Art
Each month, I send out an email with a piece of my artwork. I am now also posting them on this blog site (see below). 
Click here to get it in your email each month.

  • Layers of Life

    Layers of Life

    2025-January – I recently took a week-long art quilt workshop from Sue Benner (a wonderful improv quilter).  She had us make a 20” x 30” “ugly background”.

  • Light for the Dark Days

    Light for the Dark Days

    2024-December – This is December and I don’t really make holiday art.  But we are coming up on the longest night of the year, so, I decided to use a piece I made called “Midnight Garden.”

  • Ugly Fabric

    Ugly Fabric

    2024-October – What do you do with perfectly good stuff that you just don’t like? You give it to your friends!

  • Think Small

    Think Small

    2024-September – Making art in difficult times can sometimes be challenging.

  • Unique Designs

    Unique Designs

    2024-August – Amazingly different results from the same pattern.

  • Heat Wave

    Heat Wave

    2024 July – Focus on beauty and stay cool.

  • To Be, To Quilt

    To Be, To Quilt

    June 2024 – Even when it’s hot outside, a quilt can still be good to have around.

  • The Other Senses

    The Other Senses

    2024 May – As the weather gets warmer, take advantage of the magic of dusk.

  • Time to Dance

    Time to Dance

    April 2024 – The goal of the process painting class was to focus on the process, not the end result.

  • Pi in the Sky

    Pi in the Sky

    2024 March – March 14 is Pi Day. Don’t miss it.

  • Fun & Sunshine

    Fun & Sunshine

    2024 February – Here’s a little sunshine, just in case it’s not available where you are.

  • The Old & the New

    The Old & the New

    2024 January – The first challenge of my art quilters group was to take something old and make it new.