Pierre Thursday - I decided to make my rooster in French Provencal colors (thus his name). Quilted into the background are a split rail fence (on which he is standing), foliage on the ground and a large tree on the left. There are also clouds in the sky.
Eudaimonia - This was commissioned by an artist friend for a special tall wall in their home. The name is a Greek word meaning "flourishing". It was designed to represent a tree in their front yard they particularly like. I added a robin (can't see in photo) because the robins are also very fond of the tree.
A Starry Night - Top is finished. By far, one of the trickier patterns I've ever attempted, but what a fun pattern! Now, my HQ 16 needs to come home from the shop so I can quilt it. It's approximately 90x100, and she wants high loft batting (Ugh!). Don't even want to try this one on my Bernina. :-)
Zephirine Drouhin - I was having so much fun making this quilt, not wanting to stop, that I kept trying new techniques and adding embellishment after embellishment, until I couldn't add any more.
Tid With A Bow - Original machine quilting design, hand painted with artist's paintstiks. On display at Olde City Quilts, Burlington, NJ. Class available.
Just East of Baltimore - These are a few of the baltimore machine quilting patterns I created from a number of historical quilts. After machine quilting on my long arm I then needle-turn appliqued and pieced every other design. After the quilt was pieced I returned it to the long-arm and completed quilting the background.
3 Degrees South of Zero - All of the animals on this quilt were thread painted. The hemisphere in the middle was couched and thread painted. The quilt was machine pieced and quilted. The quilt was juried into ``Quilts at the Crossroads" in 1995 and into Williamsburg in 1996. I thoroughly enjoyed designing and making this quilt. But the zebras drove my eyes bonkers.
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