Paris at Christmas - I made this quilt for a block of the month at my local quilt shop. I loved working with the red and white fabrics and it was a challenge to find enough variations to get the right contrasts needed. This quilts resides on a queen size bed, but only during the holidays.
Blue Bird Dress - This little dress was created from old Italian Cavallini calendars (the paper and colours in these papers are sooo very beautiful). It is quite difficult to find papers which have a very rich colour to them - unlike fabrics. I finished the dress with pen drawing, watercolour, stamping, ribbon and Swarovski crystals .
Matroyshka Family - I adapted this design from a pattern I created as a greeting card. By enlarging and shrinking the template pattern piece to create three Matroyshka dolls. This time I have used the strip technique of paper quilting. The faces have been coloured in using a combination of fine felt tip pens and coloured pencils. Finished with Swarovski crystals and ribbon bows.
Blue Rabbit - I created this Little Rabbit for Easter. I love crazy quilting and really enjoyed using scraps of beautiful Japanese papers to create this little fellow/fellowess. I have used gold thread to sew this piece together using a variety of stitches - just as in fabric Crazy Quilts. I also love embellishments so used Swarovski crystals and metal charms to decorate.
Turkish Bread Boys - This portrait quilt is a window into the lives of two young men. Their culture, language, and religion may be foreign to us, but their energy, commitment to family and entrepreneurial spirit is universally recognized. This composition was inspired by a photo taken by the artist while living and teaching in Turkey.
Turkeman Crones - This portrait quilt was inspired by a photo taken by the artist while traveling in eastern Turkey. These women were the elder women of their nomadic Turkeman tribe. They were as fascinated by the American travelers that stumbled upon their camp as we were by them. The motifs in the background reflect the designs used in their handmade carpets and serve as a visual connection to this particular tribe.
Turkeman Mother and Children - This pictorial quilt shows a nomadic tribal woman with her children. The composition was inspired by a photo taken by the artist while traveling in eastern Turkey.
Monarch Migration - Monarch Migration was made for the REFLECTION theme project, a project created by the Montana Bricolage Artists. This quilt, and others made by members of the MBA, was hung in the Montana Art and Framing in Missoula, MT. through July 2013.
Shoe with Hyacyth Blossom - I create many shoe quilts in many different styles. To get around the very high thin heal I used pen and gold watercolour. I have found it looks a bit messy to sew a thin heel like this and drawing it on is the answer. I enjoy creating all sorts of different shoe bows and will often create a flower put on a piece of old jewellery to embellish the shoe.
Yellow Butterfly Elephant - This quilt is constructed of 3/4 inch squares. The papers I used are from a Cavallini calendar, various scrapbook papers and a paper I created myself by scanning lace dollies. The thread is a variegated Mettler polysheen which I love to use. Once I had sewn the elephant onto watercolour paper I completed her with a pen and watercolour garden to stand in.
Compost - I wanted to do a quilt with one of my favorite fruits as the main design *The Apple* and show off how beautiful it can be even when it is in it's rotten stages.
geese in the rose garden - It is an experiment with large scale print and what you can do with it. I had this roses large scale print I l loved and didn't know what to do with t. saw a quilt in a quilt magazine years ago that was similar but cant remember where.
Asian Inspiration - Each block was made by my Small Quilt group, as a lesson in quilt and block design. Focus fabric used by all members and each member added fabrics and chose a certain block and constructed it using each members fabrics to make a quilt. Group hung the finished quilts in our Pajaro Valley Quilt faire together.
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