ORIGINAL IS SOLD The Westcliffe Contemporary Quilters and Fiber Artists (WCQFA) guild, Westcliffe, Colorado, issued a challenge to its members: To create a 12” x 12” art quilt illustrating our own interpretation of a topic utilizing many aspects of quilting, edging and surface design. The resulting quilts were shown at several galleries and quilt shows. Topic Word: Celebrate. When I…
ORIGINAL IS SOLD The Westcliffe Contemporary Quilters and Fiber Artists (WCQFA) guild, Westcliffe, Colorado, issued a challenge to its members: To create a 12” x 12” art quilt illustrating our own interpretation of a topic utilizing many aspects of quilting, edging and surface design. The resulting quilts were shown at several galleries and quilt shows. Topic Word: Community. To me,…
ORIGINAL IS SOLD The Westcliffe Contemporary Quilters and Fiber Artists (WCQFA) guild, Westcliffe, Colorado, issued a challenge to its members: To create a 12” x 12” art quilt illustrating our own interpretation of a topic utilizing many aspects of quilting, edging and surface design. The resulting quilts were shown at several galleries and quilt shows. TOPIC WORD: Environment. The earth…
ORIGINAL IS SOLD (Entry in the 2014 Colorado State Fair Special Quilt contest. This quilt won second place. Earlier it won First Place in its category and Best of Show in the Quilt Division at the Fremont County Fair. It also received an Honorable Mention at the 2014 Zonta Artful Women Show in Canon City, CO.) Every year the Colorado…
The Westcliffe Contemporary Quilters and Fiber Artists (WCQFA) guild, Westcliffe, Colorado, issued a challenge to its members: To create a 12” x 12” art quilt illustrating our own interpretation of a topic utilizing many aspects of quilting, edging and surface design. The resulting quilts were shown at several galleries and quilt shows. Topic Word: Identity I chose to use a…
(Portrait art quilt from customer-supplied photograph. 2014.) Iris is the niece of a friend of mine. She had the cutest photograph of her and I offered to do a portrait art quilt using that photograph as inspiration. What a doll! Construction: Whole-cloth with design drawn on muslin using colored pencils and inks, polyester batting, cotton and monofilament threads.
(Notable Women Quilt Initiative celebrating women who have made a difference throughout history. Sponsored by the Rogue Art Quilters of Ashland, Oregon.) The Rogue Art Quilters of Ashland, Oregon sponsored the Notable Women Quilt Initiative, celebrating women who have made a difference throughout history. I chose Mother Teresa as my topic. The group encouraged the use of words in the…
ORIGINAL IS SOLD The Westcliffe Contemporary Quilters and Fiber Artists (WCQFA) guild, Westcliffe, Colorado, issued a challenge to its members: To create a 12” x 12” art quilt illustrating our own interpretation of a topic utilizing many aspects of quilting, edging and surface design. The resulting quilts were shown at several galleries and quilt shows. Topic Word: Movement. This quilt…
(“Twenty” contest by The Alliance for American Quilts, 2013. This quilt won an Honorable Mention prize at the competition.) As part of their fund-raising efforts, the Quilt Alliance sponsored the Twenty contest, celebrating their twenty years of effort. Quilters were asked to create a quilt with the broad theme of “twenty”. This quilt recognizes 200+ years of quilting in America…
This fiber piece was created in response to a Cherrywood Fabric Challenge. We were to create a 20” x 20” masterpiece with a goal of using a limited color palette, pushing yourself to think outside the box and design an original quilt, taking inspiration from Prince’s music, movies and lifestyle. The entire quilt top and binding had to be made…
This quilt was originally created as an entry in Ricky Tims Miracle Fabric Challenge 2014, and it won the contest. After the contest I added 3-dimensional rosemary leaves and modified a few features to make the quilt even more interesting. Ricky Tims asked us to create an original quilt design no smaller than 24” on each side using his hand…
Artist Statement: Wonderful memories of the past captured in an old family photograph. Inspiration strikes on a hot summer day! What better use for an old metal water trough along a country road alongside the river. An old, over-exposed and poorly developed B&W family photograph taken in the summer of1959 inspired this fiber art piece. My family was on a…
