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Commercial fabrics, machine quilted. I took my fabric “scrap bag” on vacation one year and “played” with the scrap shapes to inspire several small quilt designs.

Commercial fabrics, machine appliquéd and quilted, hand embroidered, embellished with beads. I became enthralled with the art and architecture of Antoni Gaudi during a trip to Barcelona in 2008. This design is inspired by some of the marvelous organic curved lines in his work.

Commercial fabrics, machine quilted, hand embroidered, machine embroidered, embellished with beads. I took my fabric “scrap bag” on vacation one year and “played” with the scrap shapes to inspire several small quilt designs.

Commercial fabrics, hand painted, machine appliquéd and quilted. I was compelled to replicate this little church. In the actual photo it is dwarfed by trees going up and up this valley in Yosemite.

Background machine pieced, fused applique, hand stitching. I developed this in a Valerie Goodwin workshop called “Favorite Places”. Florence was a honeymoon destination with my husband. I was nearly 41 when we married and we weren’t sure if we could have a family. Our first daughter was born 9 months later!

Machine and hand applique. Based on a Pinterest photo of fall leaves and red berries. Rather than try to re-createthe actual color variations of the leaves, I used different fabrics and changed thered berries to blue!

Machine pieced background; machine appliqued vase and flowers. I have a good supply of floral upholstery fabrics, so I decided to make a flowerarrangement with them.

Machine pieced background; hand appliqued elements; hand embroidery. Developed during a Heidi Parkes workshop, I was inspired by all the decaying barns evident all over the Midwest. 

Hand dyed “paper cloth” for background, machine appliqued; hand embroidered. I would see these beautiful colors in the early morning of winter as the sun started to come up.