This quilted portrait of my horse, Gavi, started with a photo I traced onto freezer paper. I then fused many pieces of fabric to fill in the portrait, finishing with an embroidered mane. The ice drops on his whiskers are made of white fabric paint. Machine quilted.
Exhibition Year Archives
Gavi
TobyAmy Spungen
This is a quilt collage portrait of Toby, my daughter Hannah and son-in-law Tim’s Goldendoodle. It started as an enlarged photograph traced onto freezer paper. I then filled in the portrait with fused cotton fabric pieces before quilting it. Can you spot the photographer in Toby’s eye?
Big RubyAmy Spungen
This is a portrait of Ruby, my friend Diane’s beloved pet rabbit. This quilt collage started as an enlarged photograph traced onto freezer paper. I then filled in the portrait with fused cotton fabric pieces before quilting it. The title is Big Ruby, because I also made a Little Ruby portrait. 🙂
Calypso QuiltRuth Stegmeyer
The “Calypso Quilt” is hand and machine pieced, hand and machine quilted.
PoppiesRuth Stegmeyer
The design is hand appliqué and machine pieced, and hand and machine quilted.
Bargello Quilt in pink, blue, green, and purpleRuth Stegmeyer
The Bargello Quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted.
PricelessSue Sweeney
Machine embroidered
Barn Star SampleSue Sweeney
Machine pieced and longarm quilted
Inside StarSue Sweeney
Machine pieced and longarm quilted
My Confetti HeartRachel Sychowski
Machine pieced and machine quilted.
Box Workshop 2Melanie Terasaki
Marbled the paper myself. The gold paper is 18k
LanternLinda Tomkow
Joomchi technique was used with hand sewn areas
Vessel with Lid 1Linda Tomkow
wet felted with merino and finn wool
Vessel with Lid 2Linda Tomkow
wet felting using a resist with finn and merino wool
La PasAriel Towers
18 Months 2,309 Paper Pieces Nearly 36 yards of Fabric & Countless Hours of sewing – phew! Pattern: La Passacaglia by Willyne Hammerstein, adapted by Pink Door Fabric for an 18 BOM (block of the month).
Zoo Lites!Ariel Towers
English Paper Piecing English paper piecing is a method of patchwork where fabric is wrapped around fabric shapes made of thin paper cardboard or heavy paper. Once the shapes are wrapped and ready, the sewer will hand sew the shapes together one at a time until the shapes become an intricate desi
Flower PowerAriel Towers
Applique, Machine Piecing
The Inner Life of a RainbowAriel Towers
Trapunto, from the Italian for “to quilt”, is a method of quilting that is also called “stuffed technique”. A puffy, decorative feature, trapunto utilizes at least two layers, the underside of which is slit and padded, producing a