Mardi Gras in the Twilight Zone - My bee stepped through an art quilt workbook. For some reason I got a "In the Twilight Zone" theme going. I forgot which technique this one was for, photography I think, but I used an old picture I had taken of myself in a mirror. It looks like I've been frightened. I printed out words and images from the opening of The Twilight Zone and worked them into the quilt. The backing of the piece is the silver inside of a snack cake bag! The image is actually printed on 2 separate pieces of sheer synthetic fabric. One is slightly smaller than the other to give a ghosting effect. I burned the edges of the photograph part. I think I'm a closet pyromaniac -ha! I had a lot of fun making this. It's one of my favourites.
Walkies in the Twilight Zone - This is another "In the Twilight Zone" quilt. The technique for this one was stamping and painting. I traced my own foot then actually put my dog's foot on a gold ink pad and stamped her foot on there! Then I inked up my shoe and put it over my foot pattern. That's real blue fingernail polish on my toes - ha! I love the metal-and-bead "ribbon".
TriRyche for L and B - I made this for a couple I know from our love for the band, Queensryche. This is their logo. In all the light coloured squares I single line stitched their album covers.
Octopus' Garden - An art quilt I started at Quilting Adventures in Texas, 2008. I took a fusing class from Sue Benner. This puppy is fused and layered and beaded and all kinds of wild stuff. I took my image inspirations from a picture book called "Reefs".
Winter Wonderland - I originally wanted to do a winter scape theme and purchased the variety of blues, greys and silvers, but when we looked at it, it was too flat, so we added the greens and yellows/golds to spice things up a bit. I love how it turned out.
Celebrate! - I purchased a bunch of jewel tones for a Project Linus quilt and thought they would be great to use in a Kaleidoscope. I was so thrilled with how the center medallion turned out, I did 1/2 sized 3/4 kaleidoscopes to use as the cornerstones! OK, yes, I get obsessed with this stuff!
Mommy's Home - I entered this 12" X 12" for Quilting Arts' 2008 Calendar challenge (home-house theme). It shows the 6 dogs that my husband and I have rescued over the years. It was get great fun putting this together but alas, I didn't make into the calendar.
Snow Family - This was designed by Pearl Louise Krush in 2004 and I loved it enough to buy enough fabric to make 3 of them. I plan to make more in this series.
convergence number 3 - Number 3. I enjoyed the bright colours of this one. I used commercial hand dyed and a batik that resembled palm trees, so I quilted palm trees onto it. I added piping to the inside border.
convergence in the jungle - number 4 made with commercial batiks. I loved the forest feel to this one and an elephant "appeared" on the right as if coming from behind trees. Other people have seen other creatures in it too. I enhanced the "trunk" and "eyes" with tiny gold beads and will probably add more beads.
I used Ricky's method of very fine piping before the binding.
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