Guild Archives

Paper and fabric collage, embellished with hand printing and hand stitching.

Collage of handprinted and commercial fabrics with hand stitching.

Glued raw edge applique. Longarm quilting by Sue DiVarco. Original design from my photo taken at the Morton Arboretum. Started Sept 2022 in a class with Susan Carlson at Woodland Ridge. One classmate said “his eyes follow you around the room”. Longarm quilted by Sue DiVarco.

Foundation paper piecing. Done in a Judy Niemeyer 6 month technique class taught by Jane Reents. Long arm quilting by Sue DiVarco. Design Source – Judy Niemeyer pattern.

Foundation paper piecing. The feathered star block was pieced in an IQI workshop taught by Barbara Black. Longarm quilting by Sue DiVarco. Design Source – 4 parts of the Washington Medallion pattern by Sue Garman.

Pieced blocks, machine quilted. Design Source – Bjorn Bear block by Elizabeth Hartman

Painted, stamped and silk-screened fabric with commercial and over-dyed commercial fabrics (Wendy Richardson). This is my project from a 5-day workshop given by Judy Coates-Perez in August 2018. Design Source – Original Design

Bleach discharge on Thriftstore clothing. Longarm quilting by Amy Parker. Design Source – Original Design

This piece is a failed entry for a challenge to interpret a Beatles song as a quilt–it doesn’t meet the technical definition of a quilt, though the stacks of buttonhole-stitched wool circles derive from 19th century penny quilts or penny rugs, a way in which women could use up small scraps of wool to makeContinue reading “At the Corner of Abbey Road and Penny Lane

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None of my lines overlap in the original quadrant design which gives my piece a somewhat different look from the instructor recommendation.

Machine pieced/machine quilted. This quilt was juried into the “Words Matter” exhibit at the Art Center, Highland Park, in summer 2021.    

Machine pieced, raw-edge fused applique,  long arm quilted. I completed this quilt top on Easter morning 2020. The design is “Towards the Sun” by Robin Pickens. Sue DiVarco designed and completed the longarm quilting.     

Rubbings and stencilled images using ShivaPaintstiks; machine quilted. Swarovskicrystal embellishments. I did most of the center panel during an on-line class with Shelly Stokes on Paintstiktechniques.

Fused applique / machine applique. Designed in Jane Sassaman’s Abstracting from Nature workshop at Woodland Ridge Retreat, March 2018.     

Machine pieced and machine quilted. This is the first of 3 planned quilts using Japanese or Japanese-inspired fabric and traditional Western blocks. The quilting is by Sue DiVarco.

A beautiful but lethal relative to the Venus flytrap–is it a prehistoric precursor (when bigger was better) or a genetically altered escapee from a laboratory?

A bird with bling deserves a ritzy nest with great views from all the rooms of her predator-free surroundings. This shape reminded me of woven bird nests that I saw in the Amazon that hung from branches looking like shoulder bags that could accommodate a coconut or a bowling ball.