Jane’s workspace is located in the Boyden Studio. It is a huge space high ceilings with lots of tables, excellent lighting and many sinks. It is ideal for paper making.

The Boyden Studio, where Jane is working, has areas for hanging recently couched handmade paper to dry. There is also a kitchen area with a stove that is ideal for cooking plants to make paper.

One of the first projects Jane did after arriving was to make handmade paper using the Sitka logo.

Jane also molded damp handmade paper to one of the Alder trees on the Sitka site. Here she is removing it after it has dried.

After traveling to Tillamook, Oregon and seeing the quilt squares on the barns. Jane became interested in making handmade paper quilt squares. The quilt squares on the barns is part of the Tillamook Quilt Trail. Here is their website, http://www.tillamookquilttrail.org

Jane is making one part of the quilt square by dipping a frame into a blue paper pulp vat.

To make the patterns for the quilt square, it is necessary to cut each part of the pattern from a material called buttercut and sticking it to a frame. Buttercut is normally used for covering material prior to sand blasting.

Jane is couching a handmade paper onto a fabric that is then hung up to dry.

Recently couched handmade paper quilt squares are hung out to dry.

Jane is working on a dried quilt square.

Jane working on her paper quilt. She is putting the individual squares together using threads and gel medium.

This is the finished quilt.

One of the other residents, poet Tom Crawford, visited Jane to see what she was doing. Tom has been talking about writing some of his poems on Jane’s handmade paper.