Made for a black and white challenge for Magic City Art Quilters in Birmingham, AL. Appliqued. Thread painted.

THis quilt was made for my sister Kay in the colors of a stained glass window in her bedroom.

I is all cotton.

MT Memories is a mixed technique quilt. The pieced pattern was taken from a commercial pattern. I added the modified applique and some of the featured freehand quilting from patterns by Willow Bend Creations and Laura Lee Fritz.

This is a quilt based on my love for blue and white tableware, specifically delftware plates. I've always wanted a quilt that somehow incorporated my love for dishware and plates - and now I have! What do you think? 

Inspired by a design by Karen McTavish, I made this quilt for my son and his wife for their anniversary. He  is a Tattoo Artist and wanted something to reflect his profession.  It is needle turn appliqued and hand quilted.

I am a fan of old movies. One of my favourites is To have and have not, featuring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. These portrait quilts are based on two photographs I found online. (I have unfortunately been unable to discover who took those pictures.)

The quilts have been made using raw edge appliqué. I have tried to match the quilting to the contours of the face and body. Because I find the back of a portrait quilt supremely unattractive, I use a false backing. First I quilt the three layers: portrait (top) + batting + stiff fusible interfacing. Then I iron on a false back and quilt the picture frame through four layers: portrait + batting + interfacing + false back. Add binding as usual.

I took a class from Alex Anderson at the Alden Lane Nursery "Quilting in the Garden".  The class was about techniques to use in improvisational piecing.

It is an original design and I used lots of different colors of thread to quilt (1/8" parallel lines) on the solid fabric.

I began this quilt in a "Fabulous Facades" workshop with Gloria Loughman. It's based on a photograph that my daughter took while living in Valparaiso, Chile. I love the primary colors of the buildings, the strong shadows, and all the details of the plants and laundry.

Creating and attaching all the little 3D laundry items was probably the biggest challenge on this quilt. I used several different kinds of fabric, treated to reduce raveling, but still be somewhat drapeable. In the end, I discovered that cotton knit underwear was probably the best fabric for this, so I sacrificed some older pairs to the cause! I also used designer samples of real curtain fabric for the window coverings.

"Valparaiso Rowhouses" won a ribbon for "Best Interpretation of Theme - Wall Quilt" at the 2017 Pacific International Quilt Festival. It was also on display at the Junctures I exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in November 2017.

This is the BOM this year. I just figured out the floater using the instructions and made the star corners after finding the formula for quarter square triangles. It is not yet quilted.

In The Pink is a bed quilt, inspired by tulips and is a traditional style design with a mix of raw edge applique and simple piecing. 

This quilt  was made for the exhibition "Blossoming Ukraine" NadelWelt in Karlsruhe. I really love the applique and I wanted to show with this technique how beautiful the nature is at any time of the year in my country. All appliqué with open cuts, it was difficult, but interesting to do.

This quilt was made half size and I've adapted quite a few of the applique blocks to personalise it.

61 1/2” w x 68 1/2” h   Original design using EQ7, pieced, and raw-edge appliquéd.  The cabinet is 100% cotton fabrics. The glass pieces are many different fabrics including satin, shiny & glitter tulle, organza, crinkle sheers, metallics, and more.   Nylon Tulle covers the raw-edge appliques.  Longarm quilted, computerized and hand guided, with Poly, Cotton, MonoPoly, and Metallic threads. Hobbs silk batting for trapunto and overall.

This is a sample quilt created for Quilt Market 2017 in Houston to feature Paula Nadelstern's new Wonderlust fabric line from Benartex.

My version of the BOM halo medallion.  I made this as a Tribute to Sue Garman.

This quilt was created by printing a picture I took while sightseeing in one of Alsace's Flower Towns.  The photo was printed by Spoonflower on cotton.  I created a quilt sandwich and then densely thread painted over the picture. I used over 25 different thread colors in thicknesses ranging from 30 to 100.  

Quilt made in december 2013, using stained glass technique , with tissu lamé bias, some painted area like the head of the bird , some part of the body and plume.