Art Quilts

Kitty in Garden (12” x 8.5”) The scraps from the Love My Bike quilt were shuffled around my studio for a few weeks.         Blue and green flowers         Gray and white strips         Scraps of orange and pink that I cut, auditioned and rejected Last weekend they came together with scraps of blue from the Almost Ticker […]

My friend Donna visited this week to drop off a few blocks for an upcoming guild meeting. She also brought along scraps she had just picked up from a local seamstress. I left the bits of pink satin and tulle, the swirled black fabric and suiting fabric piled on my desk. Later that night I […]

If I had to pick only two colors to work with, they would black and white. There is such diversity in the patterns and potential. Scraps from past projects make up this background. She never understood why anyone would keep jewels in a box (17”x 24”) The aqua and silver embellishments pop against the black […]

Lots of purple! These backgrounds are wonderful for using scraps or that piece of fabric I’d been hoarding for far too long. And they allow me use bits of baubles that I’ve been collecting for even longer. This quilt is large enough to accommodate larger pieces of cast off jewelry and old keys. I even […]

She saw no reason to bury treasure; it makes her dress fabulous (13” x 17”) Aren’t the pigtails adorable? I’d been hanging onto the hand-marbled fabric for years – it makes the perfect background on these quilts. Scraps of cotton and silk in various shades of pink and purple are added and the quilt is […]

The quilt began with a piece of cotton batting covered in fusible webbing. Scraps of blue fabrics are placed on the background and fused in place. The edges are left raw and fraying is encouraged. Backing fabric is added and I begin the quilting – lots of stitched dahlias. The girl is drawn onto fusible […]

Embroidery Stitch Sampler (14” x 10”)