A Year in the Garden

A Year in the Garden

A Year in the Garden

Mystery Quilt - This was my first quilt - started in Alamo Palms, Alamo, Texas, January 2004. Stella Regan was our teacher. An excellent teacher. As a "mystery quilt" it was all a "mystery" for me. I sure learned a lot on this first venture and I'm happy with the result. I quilted by machine - just "stitch in the ditch".

Moondance - It's a marvelous night for a Moondance! This quilt was designed introduce the confident beginner to intermediate and advanced piecing techniques.

Crazy Mexican Hat Dance

Silk Flower Convergence - I made this convergence quilt and wasn't sure how to finish it off. Then, I signed up for a class using silk flowers/ tulle/ and beads to embellish quilts and knew that is what I would do.

Lillebet's Garden - Designed as a teaching sampler for the confident beginner

Carnival - I made this quilt for the Pilgrim Roy Challenge run annually for funds the American Quilters Museum. The fabrics were supplied and were the only ones allowed to be used.

Passion Fruit - Using the colors of the passion fruit gave me the color scheme for this quilt. The quilting design is of passion fruit leaves and tendrils.

Tropical Bouquet - There are only two fabrics in this quilt, one a marvellous tropical floral and the other a gold spotted black. I fussy cut some of the fabric to get a bouquet like arrangement and freely cut other parts to make the border. The narrow green "piping" is two strands of perle cotton couched in place.

Bountiful Harvest 2 - I used embroidery techniques, including stumpwork and ribbon work, to make a miniature version of a Baltimore quilt. The blocks are 5" and are surrounded by a hand quilted border. This quilt won the merit prize for Best Use of Embellishments at the recent New Zealand Symposium held in Palmerston North, and was also accepted for the suitcase exhibition which will be travelling around New Zealand for the next year.

Black Magic - Black on black background, oriental fabrics and hand quilted in gold thread

There's a Lady in the Corner - Used oriental fabrics with gold in most of them

Grateful Hearts - This quilt was made for my principal, Sister Marie. Each heart represents a prayer for a particular person in my life. Sister Marie is a true inspiration in my life.

I made this quilt by using some fussy cut native birds from a New Zealand designed fabric as the centre of the stars and added paper pieced ferns.

Sonoma in September - Hand dyed fabrics fused to muslin foundation with commercial fabric backing.

Nebula - Hand dyed fabrics fused to velvet background, free motion quilted, heavy beading and fabric painted.