The machine quilting will probably be finished today. Note the gardening gloves lying on the quilt and sewing machine. They are rubber palmed and finger tips and I couldn’t meander without them. Here’s the tool cart.
I love these pins. They are long, very thin, silk pins that I can sew over. Well – sometimes I [...]
Forgot to show the latest flower when finished. For lack of a better name, it’s called “Red Lily.”
And the gardening apron is ready to quilt.
A zillion flowers have been cut out from photos that I’ve taken. I need to print and cut about a zillion more. Another grandmother has been added, different kind of flowers, etc., etc., etc. I’ve printed on silk organze, and painted on silk organza. Back to the cutting board.
Several months ago I pictures two of four old, white aprons that I’ve either received as a gift or bought in a thrift store. I knew I wanted to mount them on a black background but just couldn’t get past that. It came to me while walking the other morning, to make them a domestic [...]
Orange Soverign 14″ x 17″
I just learned that I won an Honorable Mention in the National Small Art Quilts 2008 exhibit at Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY. Well, Hooray!
Opening on First Friday, September 5, at the Creamery in Springfield, MO, I’m participating in a two person exhibit with Lettie Blackburn in which she will be exhibiting watercolors and small art quilts of trees and I will be exhibiting photographs and small art quilts of flowers. Lettie came up with a great title, “The [...]
I am a fiber artist whose always been in love with anything "fuzzy." My evolution has been from a weaver to knitter to silk painter to quilter. I knit for relaxation and currently do pieced, fused, and/or appliqued, art quilts inspired by my photographs.
