Artist Archives

Machine embroidered, machine pieced & quilted. The background came from leftovers from another piece. It provided the inspiration for this piece.

Great fun selecting and collecting selvages. (Selvages stitched on a sweatshirt that was disassembled.)

The kit for this project was won at a paddle auction. Loved the critters. (Machine pieced and machine quilted on a home machine)

Machine quilt as you go with piping. Couldn’t pass when I saw this pattern. Not difficult to make.

Machine pieced & quilted. Embellished with paint, paintsticks and beading. Experiment with embellishing using paint & beads to accent the fish.

Machine pieced – blocks cut apart & restitched. This piece looks like complicated piecing & stitching but its really just sewing square blocks.

Strip pieced, machine quilted. It’s all straight stitching. Looks complicated but it’s not.

Paper pieced & machine applique & machine quilted. These are sample trials for a queen size quilt.

Fused confetti & thread painting. Confetti landscapes made with a technique learned in a class in Michigan.