Tag: Art quilts

  • Virtual Quilt

    Virtual Quilt

    I have combined my cellular quiltlets into a virtual quilt to be in Artella Magazine issue 10 BODY OF ART: Passion and Projects of Universal Creation. This issues theme is about the Body, tying in with themes of Soul, Creation, and Creativity. My artwork is going to be paired with a poem by Nita Penfold…

  • Progress

    Progress

    This is the quilting so far. Not terribly exciting, but I thought the lines running linear with the leaves would help give clarity to the agave image defining the shapes of the leaves.

  • Fauna rejected from IQA after all

    Fauna rejected from IQA after all

    I got the news from IQA that they think the wires on the cactus are too sharp and they can not accept it into the show. So it looks like IQA is truly a quilt show in the end even though there seems to be a greater and greater emphasis on art quilts, the quilts…

  • Agave Quilt

    Agave Quilt

    Here’s the final background for the agave (pre-fusing). It is now all fused together and ready to layer it with batting and backing. Unfortunately I am leaving for California in a couple days and will be gone for three weeks. I am anxious to get my sewing table put back together so I can quilt…

  • Woo Hoo!

    Woo Hoo!

    There’s a Place Called Mars won second place in Innovative quilts at the World Quilt show- New England. U.S. Winners & International Entries will tour to: Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza and Pacific International Quilt Festival with a grand finale exhibition at Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition Schaumburg, Illinois November 9-12, 2006 This little Martian lady is…

  • Fauna is accepted in IQA World of Beauty

    Fauna is accepted in IQA World of Beauty

      We are all thrilled that our group quilt Fauna passed the jurying process. Here is the label I just finished for it. I am sending it to Texas so it can be stitched on the quilt before it gets sent to Houston at the end of the month.

  • There’s a Place Called Mars…

    There’s a Place Called Mars…

    There’s a Place Called Mars…will be going to World Quilt Show New England in Manchester, New Hampshire. I am glad this quilt will hang there because the song that this quilt is based on was taught to Girl Scouts all over New England in the early 1960’s. My sister learned the song when we were…

  • Agave

    Agave

    Hand dyed cotton, machine appliqued, machine quilted. 2006 56″ x 47″

  • When in Rome…

    Okay so I bit the bullet, now that I live in Chicago, I thought I would try my hand at a fused quilt. Actually, I have also been wanting to use some of the fabric I dyed right before I moved, and fusing seemed to make the most sense, I am not much of a…

  • Quilted Nerve Cells

    Quilted Nerve Cells

    The nerve cells are outline quilted with a metalic thread with wool batting, so they are puffy and round. The background is quilted with monofilament that is clear enough to not cover the nerve-like designs in the hand dyed fabric, but it sparkles just enough to be seen. This piece is about 10 inches square.

  • Quilted stem cells

    I don’t know if this looks much different but it is now quilted with a layer of wool batting behind, with very close quilting in the background red areas so there is somewhat of a trapunto effect. I also painted a little more with some golden fluid acrylic glazes to give a little more transparent…

  • More cells

    More cells

    This is a electronmicroscope picture of cells, below is my initial interpretation of the cells with Angelina fibers.                 This is mitochondria drawn with Tsukineko inks and oil paint stick.

  • IQA Auction

    This is my piece for the IQA silent auction in Houston this year. It is painted hand dyed silk. 17″ x 17″

  • Quilters Newsletter Magazine

    Quilters Newsletter Magazine

    Wooo hooo! Tree of Life is going to be in the September issue of QNM, in the Readers Quilt Show section. “The human form gets interpretted in patchwork and applique.” Technically this quilt is neither since it is painted, but I won’t argue that point. I guess a naked Martian smoking a cigar wouldn’t qualify…

  • Agave

    Agave

    The air quality in Los Angeles, when I lived there, was less than desirable. But it did make for intensely colorful sunset walks. Surreal shades of crimson and ocher would wash over the trails and agave rosettes dotting the hillsides near my canyon residence. This quilt was inspired by one particular agave plant that seemed…

  • Stem Cells

    Stem cell research is getting amazing results in a number of areas in the medical field. I am frustrated by the belief system of this administration when it comes to stem cell research. At the present time fertilization clinics dispose of unused eggs. Why is it more humane and Holy to throw away embryos than…

  • Primordial Sea

    While living in Texas fossils fascinated my children, and we spent many happy days in the creek beds of Austin searching for evidence that North America was once under the sea. This quilt is what I like to imagine a Primordial Sea, abundant in jewel toned marine life would look like. this quilt is whole…

  • Fauna

    This is my strip for a group quilt that is being made with my art quilt group that formed when I lived in Austin. Now our members are in Austin, Dallas, Glendale (soon to be Chicago), Portland, Maine and Tokyo, Japan. This quilt is a follow up to two previous group quilts on a similar…