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Feel
the Mist
One of the quilt groups I
attend is called Playing Outside of the Block. Its a
wonderful mix of traditional and art quilters. A
challenge was issued to make an 18" x 18" piece on the
theme of cool or hot. I chose to make a cool piece. I
wanted to practice the skills I learned from Vikki
Pignatelli on pleated borders and curved piecing. So
this was a perfect opportunity to make a small piece.
Check out all the 18" x 18" pieces on the
Playing Outside of the Block website. |
Fire
Dance
I entered Fire Dance
into the Journal Quilt 2008 Elements II exhibit. It did
not get selected for the juried show in Houston.
I
made Fire Dance under the direction of Vikki Pignatelli.
I visited her home for 3 wonderful days in July 2008 and
made this journal piece to experiment with her
techniques for improvisational design and curved
piecing.
Fire
Dance shows the spirit of God in waves of energy, moving
over the earth during creation. In the earth’s initial
stages, God’s spirit, represented by fire (coral), the
waters and air (teal), and the earth (black) are all
inter-mingled while the spirit creates their form and
they become distinct entities.
This piece is a part of the
on-line gallery called
Braving the
Elements. |
Global
Balance
This is my
Hoffman Challenge 2008 piece. It was selected to
travel in the trunk QC-A. One of the venues on its
travels include the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in 2009.
This piece
incorporates many things that I love: Asian fabrics,
metallic and variegated fabrics and threads and using my
computer to design. I used Photoshop® to “Spherize” my
drawing of the stacked circles in the squares which is
based on the traditional Drunkard’s Path block.
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Canna
This is my newest
healing quilt called Canna. I tried a new technique
using Photoshop to manipulate the photo and then printed
it on fabric. The inspiration photo was taken by Craig
Cramer and was used with his permission. You can check
out his blog at
www.remarc.com/craig/.
During the course
of our discussion, he posted two blog entries about my work. You
can read his entries by clicking
here
and
here.
This quilt will
be donated to the University of Michigan Hospital cancer
wing.
This project has
been deeply satisfying. I appreciate how the Internet
brought me together with the photographer and how our
work inspires one another. |

Googlegänger
(Portrait of Lisa Ellis of LisaEllisMusic.com)
A Googlegänger is
someone that shares your name that you find in Google.
I participated in a group challenge to create a piece
called Identity Crisis. My identity crisis is that I want my website to be at
the top of the results page when “Lisa Ellis” is
Googled. Who is at the top of Google results? The Lisa
Ellis from lisaellismusic.com. So this quilt is of her.
(She gave me permission to use her portrait for this
project). She is quite the rocker and totally different
from me. She’s cool. She’s young and gorgeous. And, she
has the number one spot on Google. |

To-Be
List
2007 Journal Quilt.
Sept. '07 Journal Entry: Yikes! I am totally
overwhelmed! I am drowning in my TO-DO list! I realize I
need to regroup. It’s time for the TO-BE list! I am
not defined by what I do or what I get done.
What’s most important everyday is to be the person I was
created to be. And I will start with “Be Still
and Know that I Am” (Psalm 46:10).
Exhibited at the International Quilt Festival in
Houston, Oct 31-Nov 4, 2007 |
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Rays
“His coming is as brilliant
as the sunrise. Rays of light flash from his hands,
where his awesome power is hidden." (Habakkuk 3:4)
This piece was made for the
Quilt Patch in Fairfax as a class sample for the
transparency class I taught in the fall of 2007. |

Azalea
Inspired by a photo
of my husband's wonderful azaleas taken in May of 2006.
Machine pieced and appliqué. Embellished with ink and
Swarvorski crystals. |

October Wild Fires
I made this
over the weekend following the horrendous wild fires
that swept through Southern California in October 2007.
My hearts and prayers are with all those that lost loved
ones, pets and their homes. This quilt was shown at the
Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in February 2007. |
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Undecided
Made for the Pacific
Transatlantic Challenge.
I fell asleep one
night recently with a decision turning over in my brain.
The engineer in me processes decisions using a matrix or
table weighing the alternatives against criteria with
scores or ratings filling in the grid. The image of a
matrix and the decision at hand, wove itself into my
chaotic, nonsensical dreams as I slept. I kept waking up
to seeing grids with grey areas of uncertainty. I saw
bits of red as my neurons were firing trying to decide
WHAT I SHOULD DO. This quilt shows the weaving of my
dreams with choices to be made. |

Asian
Morning
The Chinese
Letter that is quilted in the right hand corner means
Faith. There are also cranes and bamboo quilted onto the
surface. Donated to the Brehm Center for Type I Diabetes
at the University of Michigan. |

Beginning.
"In the beginning, God
created the heavens and the earth". (Gen 1:1). This
piece represents the blue of the heavens and the brown
of the earth. On Sale at the Windrush Gallery in
Fairfax, VA. |
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Rajua
(meaning to give home in Swahili)
The quilt was made
for UNIFEM (United Nations Fund for the Development of
Women).
Rajua exhibited at the
Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, February 2007 and AQS Quilt
Show, April 25-28, 2007. It was auctioned off on June
22, 2007 and is now in the private collection of author
Neale Godfrey. |
 Eagle
Scout
This is a
commemorative quilt that I made for my son on the
occasion of his Eagle Scout Court of Honor. We
celebrated his achievement on May 28th, 2007. The head
of the Eagle was drawn by artist Stacey Mayer and was
used with her permission. |

Canyon
Recently on Simply Quilts,
I caught an
episode with Kim Deneault. She has developed a technique called
Raggedy Reverse Applique which she uses for working with kids. I
decided to give it a try for making art quilt abstracts. |
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Indescribable
Based on the lyrics to the
song by Chris Tomlin.
"Indescribable,
uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by
name. You are amazing God." |

Thirteenth
Tale
Made for a
quilt artist's book club. We all read the Thirteen Tale
and made a quilt based on the rich imagery. This is of
the home Angelfield when it catches on fire. There are
ghost ovals which represent the ghostly figures that are
present in the home. |

Late
Harvest
Inspired by
John 15 when Jesus says," I am the vine and you are
the branches." Made for the Vine Arts auction to
raise money for Culpeper Regional Hospital and is in a
private collection. |
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Mutterkraut
Collage
Made for the
Healing
Quilts in Medicine project. Mutterkraut is used in
chemo drugs. This quilt is in a permanent exhibit at
Walter Reed Hospital.
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Oriental Garden
Raw-Edge Appliqué
Lazy Landscape for sale at the Windrush Gallery in
Fairfax, Va. |

Primose
Donated to the Vine Arts for
an auction on June 12, 2005 to raise money for the
Culpeper Regional Hospital and is now in a private
collection. |
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Primose II
Working in a series
I experiments with using tulle to soften the greens in
the background so the leaves would be more visible.
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Almost
Winter
Sold by the Windrush
Gallery in Fairfax, VA |

Whimsical
Landscape
My Lazy Landscape
technique with a black and white background and bright
flowers.
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Winter Sunset
I made this using
raw edge appliqué. I took a design class in Fall '05,
and had this image in mind. But the construction
technique used by the teacher would have taken me a year
to complete. So I took the shortcut to create the image
I had in my head. |

Eagle Has Taken
Flight
Lazy Landscape made
for Mike Glor, Scoutmaster of Troop 1257 as a thank you
for his years of service to our troop. |

Collage I for
Dianne
She liked the
landscape that I made for my folks and asked me for a
purple and beige series. Christmas 2004. |
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Collage II for Dianne in
purple. |

Collage for Mimi
and Papa
I made this Lazy Landscape for my
folks Christmas 2004 following my first art quilt class.
It was my second attempt at developing this technique. |

Autumn Collage
Lazy Landscape technique
experimenting with wonky borders. |