Exhibition Year Archives

Blackhawk’s logo printed on fabric & mounted to heavy interfacing fused to commercial cotton fabric. The logo was completely beaded with seed beads. [Part of the Chicago Icon series]

Intuitive bead embroidery centered in commercial, hand dyed & rust dyed fabrics. Free motion quilted & pieced together. This was a monthly project for 2014. Inspired by a group I am in & done in the color scheme of my bead group project.

Machine pieced, hand stitching, embroidery, beading & chain. Done in a workshop with a generous teacher & great group of guild friends. Learned many new techniques!

Discharged black cotton fabrics & velvet; Kakishibu dyed fabric that was stamped with ink & commercial fabrics; fused; machine quilted. There’s a myth that when the moon is full, people go a little crazy. It’s called the lunar effect. Even the word lunatic comes from the Latin word lunaticus, meaning ‘of the moon’. Horses areContinue reading “Wild Horse Moons

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Rust dyed fabric; discharged black fabric that was overprinted with vat dyes & commercial fabrics. Fused & machine quilted. The moon plays a strong role in controlling the tides. I imagine it also has an effect on the life cycle & spawning of fish. While playing with these fabrics I felt like these went togetherContinue reading “Lunar Tide

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Chinese paint stone & petrified palm wood cabochons, beaded & attached to a deer antler. Hangs from a leather necklace. I found these cabochons on Etsy & fell in love with the Chinese painted stone. It really looks as though someone painted a landscape. I hope I have done it justice.

Leather, ultrasuede, bead embroidery, chain. I took a leather purse workshop at Chicago School of Shoemaking & this was the leftover leather from that purse. I beaded the mermaid & she fit perfectly on the uneven edge of the flap.

Photo that was manipulated in Photoshop then printed on fabric. Hand & machine quilting along with beading. Backing & binding is hand dyed silk. [Part of the Chicago Icon series]