Raffle Quilt for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - This quilt is being raffled for our 2013 Light The Night Walk team in support of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Many of you already know that my husband, Fred, has been fighting an incurable blood cancer for more than nine years now, and much of his success can be attributed to LLS for their research and wonderful patient support. Earn one entry for every $5 donated on my fundraising page.
http://pages.lightthenight.org/az/Phoenix13/MSchmersahl
Celebrate Americana - Changed out a purchased pattern, added baseball glove and quilt block, Reminds me of Summertime. Can't recall the pattern name as I worked on it different years.
Asian Inspiration - Each block was made by my Small Quilt group, as a lesson in quilt and block design. Focus fabric used by all members and each member added fabrics and chose a certain block and constructed it using each members fabrics to make a quilt. Group hung the finished quilts in our Pajaro Valley Quilt faire together.
geese in the rose garden - It is an experiment with large scale print and what you can do with it. I had this roses large scale print I l loved and didn't know what to do with t. saw a quilt in a quilt magazine years ago that was similar but cant remember where.
Compost - I wanted to do a quilt with one of my favorite fruits as the main design *The Apple* and show off how beautiful it can be even when it is in it's rotten stages.
Yellow Butterfly Elephant - This quilt is constructed of 3/4 inch squares. The papers I used are from a Cavallini calendar, various scrapbook papers and a paper I created myself by scanning lace dollies. The thread is a variegated Mettler polysheen which I love to use. Once I had sewn the elephant onto watercolour paper I completed her with a pen and watercolour garden to stand in.
Shoe with Hyacyth Blossom - I create many shoe quilts in many different styles. To get around the very high thin heal I used pen and gold watercolour. I have found it looks a bit messy to sew a thin heel like this and drawing it on is the answer. I enjoy creating all sorts of different shoe bows and will often create a flower put on a piece of old jewellery to embellish the shoe.
Monarch Migration - Monarch Migration was made for the REFLECTION theme project, a project created by the Montana Bricolage Artists. This quilt, and others made by members of the MBA, was hung in the Montana Art and Framing in Missoula, MT. through July 2013.
Turkeman Mother and Children - This pictorial quilt shows a nomadic tribal woman with her children. The composition was inspired by a photo taken by the artist while traveling in eastern Turkey.
Turkeman Crones - This portrait quilt was inspired by a photo taken by the artist while traveling in eastern Turkey. These women were the elder women of their nomadic Turkeman tribe. They were as fascinated by the American travelers that stumbled upon their camp as we were by them. The motifs in the background reflect the designs used in their handmade carpets and serve as a visual connection to this particular tribe.
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