Art Quilts

She Could Dance All Night (8” x 10”) While sorting through the cream, green and black scraps on my table, I found a face and hair I had cut out next to the selvedge of the back of my midnight & cream quilt. I immediately thought about a flamenco style dress. I cut a dress […]

I created the two quilts below in early 2010 and I still can’t decide if they are finished. Oh, they are bound and I’ve attached hangers – so technically they are completed pieces. They are cute and close to how I imagined they would turn out, but something in the back of mind tells me […]

She said ‘I do’ to her dreams (16” x 13” I ordered a ruffling foot for my sewing machine. The test strips of muslin I was playing with reminded me of layers of a skirt. When the ruffles were paired with a green background and a bit of black, I had a new quilt for […]

Numbers, Letters & Circles (16” x 22”) The evening group of the Anchorage Log Cabin Quilters posed a paint chip challenge. We were to find 3 paint chips with colors that started with our initials and then make a quilt no more than 2 feet square. The colors I selected are Council oaks (green), Arabian […]

I turned 36 yesterday. I celebrated by making myself a quilt. I followed the recipe from the Moda Bakeshop for Random Reflections. I used 36 prints from a Basic Grey Blush jelly roll and completed the whole quilt in 3 days.

Fabric, thread, wire and a few extras… I’m experimenting with using some of the techniques from Christy Tomlinson’s She Art Workshop to create art from mostly fabric (in place of paint and paper), thread (in place of rub ons, stencils and a pen) and fusible webbing (as the glue). There’s a a lot of detail […]