The third in my wholecloth series, although the fifth that I made.  I keep having to get baby quilts made!  This one just screamed to me about sunlight and plants and chlorophyl!  Part of my experiment in doing this series (for my Original Works art quilters group, but also for sale) is using different types of "solids".  This one is the first I've done on an actual solid.  It is also rectangular and meant to be a customizable baby quilt, when it sells, I will stitch the baby's name in the center (or if not, when I give it away, since everyone I know is having babies!).  Most of the threads are Superior Brytes, though there are a couple Floriani 40 weight poly embroidery threads and a couple variegated.  This one has Dream Wool batting which is such a lovely washable wool for babies.  The back is turquoise Shannon Cuddle fabric.  I did piped binding so it is extremely washable.  

This wholecloth was the second in my wholecloth series for my Original Works art quilt group, though the third that I'd made.  It's smaller than my others, but has an impromptu border due to a combination of me measuring incorrectly and shrinkage.  It is batik front and back with Dream Orient batting. It is stretched on a frame instead of bound.  I used Superior Rainbows, Superior Glitter, Sulky Holoshimmer, and Hilo Iris polyester.  I named it cyanobacteria because of its blues and greens, but the layers of feathers do have a stromatolite feel to me.  Quilted on my hand-guided APQS Millie.

This is an original design for the quilt top and the quilt's quilting.

This quilt was made from the designs in the Book called Jacobean Rhapsodies by Patricia Campbell and Mini Ayars

I learned how to make my own cotton fabric using acrylic paints and a Gelli Arts Printing Plate.  The round circles are made that way.  The outer fabric is hand-dyed.  This is an original design for the quilt top and the quilting.  The quilt is embellished with colorful hot glue crystals

A scrap quilt. It is strip pieced and when I was cutting out the wedges to sew them together my 3 year old grandson thought they were pieces of wedges and tried to eat one. It was adorable and naturally it because his Pizza quilt.

I was inspired to make this quilt after watching a retrospective about the search for The Afghan Girl on National Geographic television.  I was given permission by the photographer and this is the result.

This quilt was made in honor of my mother Betty who lost her battle to cancer. At this time of year with Mother's Day approaching I always think fondly of her and her love for bright colors.

Made as a gift for John and Diana Osborne and their new cabin. The idea for this wall quilt was inspired by their view of the San Pedro River Valley. I imagined their view of sunrise over the valley. (I forgot my camera).

This wall quilt was the focus of a class with the "awesome" Rose Hughes, January 2016 thru the Tucson Quilter's Guild workshops. It also showed at the Tucson Quilt Fiesta in Feb. 2016 as one of many class project examples offered thru the guild.

The challenge of this quilt was to make it entirely from my stash except for the background. I ended up adding 3 fabrics for the border.  The beauty of Erin Underwood's Diamond Star is in the construction that used no "Y" seams. It went together very easily.  The large open areas in the background gave quilter, Sheri Zalar, room to work her magic with her longarm.  She used both computerized and hand guided original quilting designs. 

For a wedding gift, my son and his wife requested a red quilt with a dragon.  This is the quilt I designed for them. It is  machine appliqué, satin-stitched onto a pieced background.  It arrived about two years late, but they loved it...my daughter-in-law cried when she opened it!

Ricky Tims Kool Kaleidoscope bordered with Margaret Miller's AnglePlay.  All batiks. Freehand machine quilted.

On a lovely day-- the forest is enchanting.  This bright scene called to me to make a quilt.  It was experimental in that I decided to do panels.  It seemed like I'd be able to display it in different sized areas, but in reality I haven't ever taken the panels apart.

It has been a successful quilt in that it has won prizes in many of the places it has been displayed and has been published as well.  It's nice when a quilt is appreciated by others.

This quilt is made for the exhibition "Patchwork Garden". I love to combine traditional blocks with applications. In this work I used my favorite shades of colors - green, yellow, orange, brown.

I've made a series of begonia quilts.  This is one of my favorites--maybe because it's bright.

It's a painted piece and I do enjoy that process.

This quilt was inspired by the Victorian tradition of bringing Tussie Mussie bouquets when you came to call.Tussie-Mussies are unique and personal. Every sprig and blossom in each little nosegay conveys a “meaning” with the language of flowers. Depending on which herbs are included, a wide variety of personal messages can be sent.  Every well bred lady of that era was armed with a floral dictionary. I wore out 3 confusing and sometimes contradictory dictionaries doing the research for my “Language of Flowers” quilt. Surprises met me everywhere. Who knew that snapdragons meant Deception? 

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"Peek-a-Boo" - resident bandit (raccoon) in his ivy den. Originally designed art quilt constructed of new cottons, mixed recycled fabrics and crafting felt. 95 free-motion stitched ivy leaves. Shown in 2016 Victoria Quilters' Guild Show "Colour in Motion" - Georgia Andrews, Fêteshui Studio - 2016.

The inspiration for this quilt came from a photo of old architectural ventilation blocks. What if I overlapped and stacked the blocks? I drafted the basic "Tumbling Block" with an "Attic window" style center and five different orientations of the window. I played around with them on my design wall, overlapping, traditional with no overlap, meandering etc. I chose to stick with my design inspiration and overlap them in rows so they appear to be balanced on top of each other. I quilted the blocks in the ditch and the wavy background lines to give it the look of floating through space.