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Danger and caution tape are physical barriers to keep us in/out, safe or in peril. The title refers to an often-used phrase of the last year “These Uncertain Times”. (Plastic caution and construction warning tape, bird-fencing, hand-dyed and commercial fabric. Machine stitched.)

Hand-dyed cotton fabric, mixed content fiber fragments, tulle. Threads, cords, ribbons. Heat bonded applique, machine stitched. Inspired by a winter walk on South Padre Island.

Hand-dyed cotton fabrics, heat bonded applique; Machine embroidered and quilted. This piece is a reflection on the high energy experience of training for and competing in 3 Ironman triathlons.

Hand-dyed, sun-printed cotton with images of leaves, tulle, netting. Machine stitched. Fall is my favorite season: color, light, change.

Hand-dyed cotton, torn and cut fragments, heat bonded applique, machine stitched. This garden needs no watering or weeding. It is always in bloom.

Hand-dyed and commercial fabrics, heat bonded, tulle, netting, trapped threads, cording & selvedges. Machine stitched. Bombarded by information, technology and media we are sometimes overwhelmed.

Hand-dyed and commercial fiber fragments, found objects, tulle, candy wrappers, etc! Heat-bonded, machine stitched. With 4 kids and 3 grandkids I find myself recycling lots of things in my artwork…candy wrappers abound. Design Source – Original

Commercial fabrics, digital photographs, maps, stamps, candy wrappers, heat-bonded collage, machine stitched. There are subtle sepia-toned images of family members throughout the quilt. We are all bound together in our various liferoutes. Design Source – Original