Art Quilts

Magpie Girl 3 (13” x 23”) After the bright collection of magpie girl 1, I wanted something more subtle; so I gathered soft, romantic bits and baubles including charms I had from a long ago valentine charm swap. I was thrilled to use tiny bits of marbled paper that I’d been keeping for years. And […]

Magpie Girl 2 (13” x 23”) After the wire dress, I experimented with a a ruffled skirt. This magpie girl ties bits of lace, pretty paper, buttons, watch parts, broken jewelry and other hardware to her skirt. The background is made like the other quilt with scraps of fabric fused to the batting and then […]

Magpie Girl 1 (13” x 23”) This is the first of 4 quilts inspired by the inspirational envelope challenge. The background is made of scraps of yellow fabric, much of it was hand dyed from my wedding fused to the batting and then free motion doodle stitched. The girl collects bit and pieces like a […]

Work in progress My quilt group posed an inspirational envelope challenge. Two months ago we put several items in an envelope that were to inspire someone to make a quilt; then we swapped envelopes. Below are the contents of the envelope I received. envelope contents: buttons, beads, earring, bell, sequins, piece of a zipper and […]

(8” x 11”) After doing a similar piece in my art journal, I wanted something I could hang on my wall. I glued fabric scraps to a piece of canvas and then coated them lightly with gesso. I then placed a stencil over the piece and brushed on pink acrylic paint. After drying I doodle […]

Buttons (10” x 10”) muslin with stitched grid and buttons; metal hanger My quilt guild has an annual small quilt silent auction. I made/finished these to donate to the cause. Grown (9” x 7”) fused fabric and paper collage, embellished with machine stitching and wire Flower (9” x 8”) fabric collage embellished with machine and […]

Detail The girl from my newest girl art quilt seems so sad. I stewed about what phase she was communicating and finally settled on ‘She was lonely’. (10” x 16”) Lavender background with pink stitching to mimic wallpaper and pink lanterns made from stitching and shell button. Slightly patterned white and cream dress embellished doodle […]

be your amazing self (8” x 10”) I’ve been holding to pieces of a quilt top that I never finished. Finally found a good use for it today. Used lots of doodle stitching in black, circles in red and green on the color blocks and wrote ‘be your amazing self’ in blue. I had intended […]