Recent Work:
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 Polly
Unsaturated
26" x 36"
What do you call a parrot in a raincoat? Polly Unsaturated!
This quilt was created for a group exhibit of Punchlines with
Fiber Artists @ Loose Ends. My daughter Aimee drew the parrot,
and I pieced it in a variety of methods using commercial
cottons. The border was adapted from a technique I learned in a
class with Bonnie Hunter. It is quilted by hand with iridescent
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 Fractured
Flower
These are the four sections of the fractured flower clematis
challenge I did with some friends. It was made using commercial
cotton fabrics, including fairy frost, and silk organza was used
for the dimensional petals. I kept the top left quadrant and
exchanged each of the other 3 with 3 different artists. I am now
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Keeping My Good Humor
18" x 18"
Throughout the summer, we live on popsicles in my family.
Popsicles are so cool and refreshing, either out of the freezer
in the kitchen or out a Good Humor truck. Some of my fondest
memories during childhood come tumbling back whenever I hear a
Good Humor truck driving through our neighborhood. This quilt
was made to depict something cool on a hot day with a wonderful
line of fabric I discovered at Webfabrics.net called Fairy
Frost. The quilt was actually built around the fabric, it was my
inspiration. Original design, free-motion quilted using
commercial cottons.
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 There's
No Place Like Nome
18" x 18"
To me, the polar opposite (pun intended) of being in Northern
Virginia during the summer where it is often oppresively humid
and in the high 90s, would be Nome, Alaska. The thought of dog
sledding there in the winter inspired this quilt, which is an
original design, constructed using commercial cottons, angelina
fibers, a lazy landscape piecing method I learned from Lisa
Ellis, and free-motion quilting. |
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 Color
Veal
32 1/2" x 30 1/2"
I took an Art Quilt Class at our local quilt shop and the first
assignment was to do a color wheel. There was a good amount of
moaning and groaning that ensued; we've all done a number of
color wheels in classes. It's always been a worthwhile
assignment, but for some reason I wanted to do something
different. I pretended I misheard the assignment and showed up
at the next class with my collection of pork chops, introducing
with a very bad German accent my own Color Veal! Materials and
techniques used include timtex, commercial cottons, stamping,
raw-edge appliqué and free motion quilting.
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 Components
on a Grid #1
10" x 9 1/2"
Private Collection of Judy Busby
This piece was made using commercial cottons, beads, threads and computer
pieces. It is hand-stitched with pearl cottons and stamped with metallic paint.
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 Cyclea
Peltata
30" x 30"
Made for a
special commission for the University of Michigan Cancer Center.
This quilt was inspired by a photo taken by Dr. Eby
Abraham, an Ayurvedic doctor who lives with his family in Kerala,
India. Dr. Abraham says of Kerala, "This place, gifted by god, is very
beautiful, with lot of Medicinal plants. But nowadays, destructive
activities in the name of development and urbanization almost destroyed this
treasure and people here are not at all aware of this, due to ignorance, and
greed." For more information, please check Dr. Abraham's website at
www.ayurvedicmedicinalplants.com. I am most grateful for his permission
to use his photo for this quilt!
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Identity Crisis Special Exhibit.
Our Lady of Bling
18" x 60"
One exciting thing to do
with fiber art is to take something traditional, such as an image, or a fabric,
or a design, and change it so that what was ordinary becomes different and new.
I used to only use cotton fabrics in my art work, in my prior comfort zone.
Only recently, a good friend encouraged me to explore my growing passion for
shiny, sparkly fabric. This piece was created joyfully with a collection of
exuberant colors, lively prints and a wide variety of fabrics. It is machine
and hand-pieced and abundantly embellished.
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Original design; class on Lazy Landscape with fused piecing
technique by Lisa Ellis at The Quilt Patch.
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 Lazy
Seascape
24" x 19.5" |
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 Petal
Flurries
23" x 16" |
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 Basted
Turkey with Cranberries
26 1/2" x 15 1/4" |
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 Pink
Meandering
14" x 22" |
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 November
Hush15 1/2"
x 28" |
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2007
Journal Quilt
"Nestled"
Exhibited
in Houston at the Internal Quilt Festival. Click on the thumbnail to read my
Artist Statement.
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What's the Frequency Kenneth?47" x 40 1/2"
Commercial cottons used in design depicting radio frequency
spectrum charts used by my husband who is a
telecommunications attorney. Displayed at the Washington,
DC office of Wiley & Rein.
Click on image to view detail.
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Kahala Twilight
28 1/2" x 27"
Inspired by a recent trip back to Hawaii. Machine pieced
and free-motion quilted, raw-edge appliquéd.
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Kilauea Fiddlehead
16 1/2" x 16"
Photo transfer from picture I took at the Kilauea Volcano
Park. Machine pieced and free-motion quilted, beaded with
glass beads and coral, couched fibers.
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Blue Inchies #1
11" x 22"
Three-layered "inchies"
assembled onto three-layer base. All done by hand.
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 Nest
Eggs Postcard
6" x 4" |
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 Migraine
21 1/2" x 24"
This piece proved
that it's impossible to create something beautiful with a
migraine.
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Other Work:
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Disconnect: 38
1/2" x 39 1/2"
Embellished with
various metal and glass beads, also alphabet beads spelling
out "Can you hear me now".
Click on image
to view detail.
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 Fujiblossom
Postcard: 4" x 6" |
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| Class Projects
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 Jewels
of the Nile
40 1/2" x 41"
Paper-pieced in
a class taught by Annabel Ebersole.
Pattern by Linda Sullivan for Linderella.
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 Doug's
Turtles
27
1/2" x 13"
Raw-edge appliquéd
and machine-stitched with beaded embellishments. From pattern
purchased at Kilauea Kreations in Hawaii. |
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 Solar
Swirl
35" x 36"
Partially
paper-pieced and adapted from a class taken with Betty Dietz.
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 Kaleidaloha
50" x 47"
I very recently
took a class from the method described in the One Block
Wonder book, taught by Jackie Thompson. It was so amazing
to see how different all of the quilts turned out, depending
on the fabric chosen.
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| Works in
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 Purple
Cone Flower Challenge:
Raw silks and
commercial cotton, raw-edge appliquéd, embellished with
various threads and embroidery. Part of a fractured quilt
challenge through the Quilt Art Digest.
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