Contemplation III Oh Just To Be - Handpainted face and hands done with the technique in my book "Portrait Quilts: Painted Faces You Can Do" - and yes, you really can learn to paint a face. The trick is a guideline drawing created from a photo. The guideline drawing is positioned beneath the fabric so you can see exactly where to paint each of the features. Students (who sign up thinking that they really won't be able to do this) are always amazed that they really CAN do this.
Gone fishin - Don is a fisherman. It was designed to be raw edge - glued to the background, but I added the stitching around all the quilt components. It was the first quilt I just started quilting by going around the appliques, and kept going until I reached the edge.
Blues on Top - I used EQ6 to design the block and print the templates and then pieced the Martha Negley prints together. I machine appliqued a center circle on both sides after creating and stitching the sandwiched batting and backing.
Farmland - This is an art quilt designed based on the view from an airplane window of beautiful farms below. The fabric is all hand-dyed by me, and I pieced and quilted it on my Bernina Activa 220 (I'm just a baby quilter, but man, I love that machine!!)
Primavera - This is an art quilt which I put on canvas stretchers after it was complete. It included images I manipulated on the computer and then printed on to cotton. The background is also hand-dyed and painted by me. I used a blanket stitch to applique the images onto the background.
farmland 2 - This is another art quilt, design based on the wheat field looking out my parents' front door. This was machine pieced and free-motion quilted on my Bernina.
Lime Squeeze - Original pattern by Ronda Kae Beyer and Jill Kroll (It Isnt Easy Being Green)
I designed the quilting elements as I progressed throughout the quilt starting with the feathered border which was done freehand. The background of the star blocks was chosen to give texture and not take away from the piecing. The feathered star is the focus of this quilt so I chose to use a commercially available stencil in the background enhanced by a feathered wreath. The designs within the star were custom designed to fill the space.
Eric's Autumn Splendor - One of my first attempts at quilting. It was made for a birthday gift and given to my son Eric. Eric is a licensed certified arborist with the ISA - owns his Tree Care business in Albuquerque, NM
Star Gazing Down Under - Photo quilt using pictures from trip to Australia, fabric from Australia and New Zealand. It won 1st place in the Martingale Memory Quilt contest in 1999, hung in Houston.
South Cheyenne Canyon - I say adapted, because it was it was created from a photograph taken by Justin Shults of the South Cheyenne Canoy at Seven Falls, Colorado. It was made for the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum auction.
Glen Eyrie Castle - I've enjoyed presenting several week-long quilting retreats at the Glen Eyrie Castle in Colorado Springs, CO. This work was commissioned by one of my students.
Fire Dragon Rhapsody - This quilt won the Best Machine Quilting Award at the 2006 AQS show and contest in Paducah, KY. The dragons are based on iron grillwork from the old post office in downtown Pueblo, CO.
Bohemian Rhapsody - Bohemian Rhapsody is one of my personal favorite quilts. It has won several awards. I'm working on a book now about Rhapsody Quilts so you can make one too!
Songe d'Automne - This quilt won the Machine Quilting Excellence award at the 2000 International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX. The fabrics are all original hand-dyed fabrics.
Simple Gifts - Simple Gifts was my first quilt that got international recgonition. It was selected by June Culvey as her choice for the 101st Best Quilt of the Twentieth Century.
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