About Me

My interests are many and varied.   I make art quilts, artist’s books, cards, paintings, mixed media pieces, fabric beads, jewelry, dolls, well, you get the idea!  I am my happiest when I am playing with my materials.  I love to scavenge.  I have a penchant for picking up odd bits of paper, trash, broken jewelry, etc. wherever I walk.  I regularly glean wonderful materials from the blue paper-recycling bin outside my studio.  I save thread and fabric scraps and anything that looks like it might want to be made into art someday.  Sometimes I actually use them!

I am sole proprietor of a business eponymously named Madelin C. Wolf.  I make quilts, restore quilts and do quilting for others.  Sometimes I  finish other people’s odd projects (like turning four mink pelts and a cape into an Alaskan musher’s hat!)  I love what I do, but sometimes regret that I can’t just do my own work!  Remember the cobbler whose children had no shoes?  At least all my grandchildren have quilts!  Here and there I manage to make some time to work on my own projects.

My latest interests are mixed media, printing, making artist’s books, altered books and learning  traditional bookbinding. I also am editing my novel.

I knew when I was five that I was an artist.  It took me many years to be able to say it and to follow my dream.  I attended UC Berkeley as a single parent of three.  It was joy and hell at the same time.  I received my BA degree in the Practice of Art ten years late.  Given the circumstances, it was all the sweeter.