My Quilts - 2010 to 2015
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Alexander Henry meets Debbie Mumm
2010 While delivering a quilt to my niece in Denver, I stopped in Cheyenne, Wyoming and I saw this block pattern done with a different fabric. This is the second in the series (see also "Jane meets Laurel," below) done with a colorful Alexander Henry and a Debby Mumm fabric. I never imagined these two fabric lines ever going together but I enjoyed the way they did. I liked the double prairie point edge and I plan to use this design again in another quilt
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Coupeville Window, 2011
On Palm Sunday in 2011, I went to an 8am service at the Methodist church in Coupeville, WA. The sun was shining brightly through the stained glass window above the altar so I took a picture as a reference for this quilt. The center and the squares of this mandala are three-dimensional, folded origami-ish ornaments appliqued in place. The squares are embellished with washers from the hardware store and the quilt center has an antique cloisonné clown pin sewn into the design.
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Jane Meets Laurel
2011 This is the first if the two Cheyenne series quilts (see also "Alexander Henry, etc." above) The colorful fabric is Laurel Burch fabric. The border fabric is by Jane Sasseman, another quilter whose fabric line I admire. I put the striped blocks together the way I remember them doing in Wyoming. My friend, Ann, claimed the quilt when she saw it. She is another Laurel Burch fan.
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Made for Me by Me
2011 The title of this quilt tells the whole story. I painted my bedroom yellow and made this quilt to fit my new bed. It is a "fractured nine-patch quilt," also known as a "disappearing nine-patch quilt" which I sent out to have heavily quilted by Elizabeth Storm in Utah. I became bored with the predictability of the yellow squares part way through the project and threw in a little red to spice it up.
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Degrazia Doors
2012 I went to the Degrazia Gallery in the Sun while I was in Tucson. The door of the building had been made by the artist, Ted Degrazia. Inserted into the thick, dark, heavy wood were rows of colorful marbles. The harsh sun lit the marbles up like jewels. I was so infatuated with that door that I had to needle-turn all the circles of this quilt top onto various dark squares.
Size: 30" x 33" $500 |
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San Diego Zoo
2012 I was inspired to create this mandala-designed quilt with all animal-patterned fabric. A friend gave me the mottled tan fabric near the center which is actually groups of leopards, I bought the neon zebra fabric for the background because it was so novel, as well as the black fabric for the scallops because it is iridescent and actually glows in the same colors as the zebra fabric. About the same time, I took my first long train trip, from Seattle to San Diego, where I visited the zoo, hence my choice of the quilt's name. SOLD
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Shahrazad
2012 The design for this mandala-style quilt started with the decorative printed fabric of the large circle. Once I created the secondary design with the sixteen irregular wedges, I was off to my stash to pull anything with similar colors. The yellow trumpet-shaped origami started out as triangles inserted into the turquoise fabric's seams, but I didn't have enough fabric, so I added the striped strips. Then I added the purple scroll work which is needle-turned appliqué. And, the quilt just grew from there - circles needed some squares, squares needed some circles...the background is a mottled grey with gold accents; I have never found a fabric with gold accents that I did not like. This quilt is named after the exotic princess in Arabic literature, Shahrazad, who wove the subversive tales in "One Thousand and One Nights."
43x43" $700 SOLD |
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Together Forever
2012 Named for cranes who pair and mate for life, I began this mandala-style quilt with the light blue fabric that forms the secondary pattern accented with yellow diamond shapes at the seams, a motif I enjoy. The small yellow triangles pieced into the next circle extend the design even further. The ombre blue petals on the outer edge are fused and then satin-stitched into place with variegated blue thread. Permanent loan to Magnolia UCC
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Wonder Woman
2012 "Wonder Woman" was a very unsettling quilt for me to create because:
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Fade to Black
2013 This mandala quilt began as my own self challenge to not use the bright colors I so love to work with. It was a struggle for me, but the interesting secondary patterns formed at the seams kept me going. I must admit, however, that the back of the quilt is a beautifully rich, red fabric.
54x54" $600 |
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Full Circle
2013 I started this mandala quilt with the floral fabric because the sixteen repeats formed a scalloped design that I liked. The center of a mandala is usually the focal point of the design, but the rebel in me thought, "How about this time, just a round window, nothing in the center?" The gold triangles are prairie points inserted in the seam. When I thought I was finished, I realized that I had just reinvented a Christmas tree skirt, which was dumb, so I crocheted a dream catcher with a crystal and gold beads suspended in the middle.
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Hawaiian Vacation, 2014
While I was holidaying in Hawaii, I bought a ukulele and some Hoffman fabric with a traditional Hawaiian motif. I assembled this quilt using the faux-Hawaiian fabric in a design I came across when I attended a retreat at Fort Warden a few years back. Before I was finished, I was one block short, so I appliquéd the top right block with a piece of real Hawaiian fabric to finish out the row.
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Acres of Clams, 2015
In the Spring of 2015, the Magnolia Chorale decided to match a local artist's work to each of it's songs to be shown at the concert and later in the Narthex Gallery. I agreed to participate if I was allowed to choose "Acres of Clams" since I already had six foundation-pieced sailboats finished. I found the perfect ombre fabric for the needle-turned octopus and pink fabric with shiny circles for the suckers. I sold the quilt to a gentleman whose nickname is "Octopus."
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Bali Couch Potato
2015 I went to Bali on vacation and while I was there, I bought the intriguing darker blue and white batik fabric. I incorporated the fabric into this quilt which has a cosy, navy blue flannel backing and stays on my couch, hence its name.
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Moonlight Migration
2015 I was attracted to the animal fabric and took it to a quilt retreat at Fort Worden. Because I wanted to set it on point the squares when cut were bias on all four sides. Making sure all the other squares were straight of grain to stabilize the top took care of the stretching problem. I took this quilt to England as a gift to my niece Abby's family.
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Moonlight Flight
2015 The moth and flowers in the middle of this quilt are heavily beaded and the small yellow triangles are prairie points. The black rickrack is embellished with red heart- shaped beads. The glittery purple half-circles are fused and them finished off with satin stitch, The peach colored circle is tessellated bird fabric which I also used on the back.
48x48" $600 |
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Rhapsody in Pink
2015 This quilt is an original version of a Rose of Sharon design. It is hand-appliquéd and hand-quilted with Celtic Knots in the corner of each block. The project got started when a catalog arrived in my mailbox offering a little pink metal box filled with eighty pre-cut pink hearts. Although I am not fond of pink, I wanted the cute box, so I devised this quilt design to use up the hearts. The quilt took me a few years to finish and, sadly, I lost the pink box about a week after it arrived.
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Sister's Choice
2015 One year, my sister sent me a jellyroll of fabric which I made into this variation of a Log Cabin quilt design for our brother. Since both sisters were critical to the creation of this project, I named it, "Sister's Choice."
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