Twilight - pencil drawing on a very thin paper, then freehand mashine quilted - very short stitch - directly on the paper. The biggest work was to separate the remaining paper from the fabric ;)
Attracted to Shiny Objects 1 - Created in an embellishment class by Heather Thomas. A nice puffiness was added by using batting made out of plastic bottles (I would use again!) It includes stamping, foiling and powder coated aluminum.
Picnic in Ajo - Made for Arizona Centennial Quilt Project "100 Quilts for 100 years". The picture, dated 1937 is my brother and I during one of our picnics and parties in the desert.
poppies - my first Wallhanging quilt following an instruction published in a magazine. Loved playing with the colours, learned hand applique and I used lovely shiny cords to do the floral stems
Pineapples & Cherries - Yum! - This is a Christmas quilt using current to 20+ year-old scrap fabrics from past DH's ties, and quilt-related gifts for family and friends. The cherry border was pieced from 6 fat quarters.
Revisit #1 - Began playing around with construction of the wavy module units while traveling and teaching (this is what national teachers do in hotel rooms across America...lol) and when I got back to my studio I pulled out some scrappy traditional pieced blocks (dear friend Bonnie Hunter can be such a brain worm) and threw everything up on the design wall (along with a few filler fabrics) and began to play. This is what happened. And this is now a 2 day workshop entitiled "Module Stew".
A Summer Story - All kinds of colorful FQ's & no idea if they can work together or be enough for this class project. But it worked! Kitties here & there.
The Circle of Life - The Circle of Life panel with complementing fabrics required a framework. Doing a 'window frame' design out of my imagination rather than any instructions was a bit of a challenge.
Crates and Rings - Exhibiting dogs, the 'crates' and 'rings' were obvious with the pattern design and fabric patterns. My other title choice would be 'Black and Tan or Red All Over' for Shibas!
Los Lobos - Wolf panels fussy-cut called for an art quilt approach to create a cohesive design. Whatever came to mind to bring out colors and textures was my goal.
Sunshine on my Shoulders - This is my completed quilt from the sensational strippers exchange! I added 'another 100' batiks from what I had received. Yellow connecting batik was a color experiment that worked.
K-5 Fractured and Frazzled Flowers - While the pattern is Ricky's every quilt turns out a surprise. Fabric choices, widths in the strata, and layout of each pattern piece makes each quilt like the turn of a kaleidoscope. Totally addicting!
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