Warriors By Imagine Dragons
Size: 42” w x 48” h
Quilt made for: The Storytellers theme: Name that Tune, Thread Tales and Art Group book - My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
The original design is from the description of the fairy tale land in the book. To get to this land one rode in on cloud animals. The six kingdoms or towns are represented by different color combinations. Of course, there are always castles, warriors and dragons in fairy tales. The song speaks of warriors that build towns from dust and will have to rise above the best and prove themselves – Their spirit never dies.
Techniques: Fused raw edge applique (stitched with invisible thread), mountains, man, guardian dogs (wurses), and river were hand painted on another fabric and appliquéd on, sky and water were painted on the quilt top, quilted ‘’on domestic machine.
Awards: Best of Show Wall Quilt Judged - Clark County Quilter 2022, Best of Show Viewer’s Choice - Clark County Quilters 2022, Best of Show - Oregon Quilt Festival 2023, Juried into AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2023, AQS QuiltWeek Des Moines 2023, AQS QuiltWeek Grand Rapids 2023, Road to California 2024, Juried in
Quilt featured in Patchwork Professional - Germany, January 2024, Page 14
International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival, Everett, Washington, 2024 - Juried In
Crayon Architecture
Size: 46” w x 47” h
Quilt made for: The Storytellers theme - Architecture, log cabin block
Art Quilt Group challenge - Black/White Four Patch
Techniques: This quilt is not pieced. It is fused appliqué with all edges sewn down. It is an original design with emphasis on color.
Awards: First Place - Quiltfest Northwest 2021
Winter Raven
Size: 42” w x 42” h
Quilt made for: Thread Tales book - Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
A child’s red winter scarf had disappeared. “Ravens… and other wild birds had been known to snatch things.” This is the sentence that I designed this quilt from.
Techniques: Appliqué, some paint and some thread painting, scarf is 3D, original design made on a domestic machine.
Awards: First Place - Quiltfest NW 2019, Juried into AQS QuiltWeek Charleston 2019
Part of quilt used for advertisement for AQS QuiltWeek Charleston 2019
Quilt featured in Patchwork Professionsal - Germany, January, 2024, page 18
Close-up photos of the quilt.
From the Ashes
Size: 45” w x 60” h
Quilt made for: Cover to Cover Book Club Quilters book - My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl was the editor of Gourmet Magazine when it became history. She was devastated that the magazine closed under her watch. The idea behind this quilt is to show that devastation can also bring new beginnings - a new hope. Some pine cones only reseed whenthey have been in a forest fire.
*This quilt was completed early in 2017 before all the fires on the west coast.
Techniques: Original design, appliqué, painting and some thread painting
Awards: Judges Choice - NW Quilt Expo 2017
Honorable Mention - QuiltFest NW 2018
Photo of the quilt used for cover of NW Quilt Expo 2018 Quilt Catalog
Lake Oswego Art Council Gallery - Exhibited with Storytellers 2019
Close-up photo of the quilt.
Blackbird by The Beatles
Size: 39” w x 41” h
Quilt made for: The Storytellers theme - Name that Tune
An original design based on the Blackbird lyrics:
“Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Blackbird, fly Blackbird, fly
Into the light of the dark black night”
Techniques: Pieced, painted, fused raw edge appliqué machine stitched with domestic machine
Awards: First Place, Viewer’s Choice - QuiltFest NW 2022
East Burnside & Sandy Blvd., Portland, OR
Size: 38” w x 31” h
Quilt made for: The Storytellers theme - Cities, Art Quilt Group challenge - Collage
Quilt is based on an official vintage black and white photo of the most dangerous intersection in Portland, OR. in 1958.
I attended a Foursquare Church a block from the Tik Tok restaurant. My sister and I would skip church to have French Fries and hot fudge sundaes there. The church bought the property and the Tik Tok was torn down.
Techniques: Glued collage, some paint, all edges sewn with domestic machine
Awards: Second Place - NW Quilt Expo 2019, First Place - QuiltFest NW 2019, Judges Choice, Val Pallens - QuiltFest NW 2019
Photo of quilt posted in Portland, Tribune for NW Quilt Expo 2018
Photo of quilt featured in Patchwork Professional - Germany, January 2024, page 13
Close-up photo of the quilt.
Time’s Past
Size: 39” w x 44” h
Quilt made for: Art Quilt Group challenge - New Techniques and Layers, Cover to Cover Book Club Quilters book: Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas
The mining towns left the landscape and lives changed. Once the mines stopped producing the towns were abandoned, but the stories lived on in the memories of the men and women. I tried to convey a feeling of time and isolation.
Techniques: Flower pounding, 3D leaves and vines, appliqué, paint, trapunto on the window frame, discharge, stump work embroidery spider, spider web, plastic in window frame, metal work on windmill, hand embroidery.
Awards: First Place, Viewer’s Choice - Clark County Quilters 2012, First Place - Clark County Quilters 2012, Judges Choice - NW Quilt Expo 2012
Bend Quilt Works Gallery - Exhibited with Cover to Cover Book Club Quilters 2013
Quilt featured in Patchwork Professional - Germany, January 2024, page 15
International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival, Everett, Washington, 2024 - Juried in
Close-up photos of the quilt.
Who’s on First, Vaughn St., Portland, OR
Size: 41” w x 50” h
Quilt made for: The Storytellers theme - Cities
I saw a photo of children looking through a fence on “I was a Portland Kid” Facebook site and was drawn to the scene. I received permission from the site to use the photo (Circa 1940’s?) for this quilt and found out at the same time that the children were watching a baseball game. Portland, OR, had a baseball field on Vaughn St. from 1901 - 1956. Jim Thorpe, Joe DiMaggio, and Ted Williams played on that field. I wish I knew the name of the photographer so I could give him or her credit for a wonderful photo.
Techniques: Fused raw edge appliquéd, painted faces, hands, and legs appliquéd to quilt top. Quilted on a domestic sewing machine.
Awards: Best of Show Wall Quilt - Quiltfest NW 2019, NACQJ Award of Merit 2019, Juried into AQS QuiltWeek Daytona Beach 2022, AQS QuiltWeek Branson 2022, Judges Recognition, Ricky Tims - AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2022, Honorable Mention - Oregon Quilt Festival 2023, International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival 2023 Third Place
Photo in AQS magazine 2022
Close-up photos of the quilt
Butterfly
Size: 27” w x 27” h
Art Group challenge - Green Line
Techniques: Original pattern. I used the confetti technique for the butterfly background covered with tulle. My green line is the word Butterfly and extends into the binding. The butterfly is appliquéd with inked areas and added hand embroidery. Pieced background is a split rail pattern.
Awards: Third Place - Clark County Quilters 2017
Close-up photo of the quilt.
Camouflage One
Size: 24” w x 20” h
Quilt made for: Cover to Cover Book Club Quilters book - Primary Colors by Alexander Theroux & Art Quilt Group challenge - Red and Black
The original design is made in primary red and black fabrics. Multiple types of fabrics were used: laces, velvets, velveteens, cottons, satins, sheers, suedes, and leathers.
Techniques: Some paint, piecing and appliqué, some beading, couched yarns and some metallic threads
Awards: Honorable Mention - Clark County Quilters 2017
Close-up photo of the quilt.
Camouflage Two
Size: 43” w x 62” h
Quilt made for: Cover to Cover Book Club Quilters book - Primary Colors by Alexander Theroux & Art Quilt Group challenge - Substrate or Materials
The primary colors of red, blue, and yellow and a variety of materials were used to make this quilt: yarns, laces, satins, sheers, wools, knits, cottons, velvets, velveteens, beads, and metallic threads. My mother loved square dancing and ballroom dancing and to make this quilt I used the leftover fabrics from my mother’s square dance and ballroom dresses.
*There are twenty-one insects camouflaged in this quilt.
Techniques: original design, raw edge appliqué and foundation piecing of background fabrics onto batting, couching yarn on raw edges, beading, embroidered insect were free hand thread painted, hand embroidery.
Color A Butterfly
Size: 60” w x60” h
Quilt made for: Church Chicks challenge - Split Rail Fence, Art Quilt Group challenge - New Technique
I combined the challenges for this quilt. I used a split rail fence for the background and the confetti technique (a new technique for me) behind the butterfly. The butterfly is an original design.
Techniques: Pieced split rail, binding pieced to match colors in quilt, butterfly and flowers: appliqué, black ink, hand embroidery, confetti background: small pieces of fabric to blend into the pieced split rail fence.
Awards: Third Place, Viewer’s Choice - Clark County Quilters 2013
Close-up photo of the quilt.
Exit Glaciers
Size: 34” w x 34” h
Quilt made for: Cover to Cover Book Club Quilters book - Glaciers by Alexis Smith
An old homestead in Alaska that has seen better days is the basis of this quilt. The one room home in disrepair and the old cars littering the property show the passage of time but the old rope swing represents the special memories of a childhood home. The quilt is an original design.
Techniques: Appliqué, painted sky, the old vehicles were created with appliqué, 3D rope swing.
Awards: Third Place - Clark County Quilters 2014, Second Story Gallery, Camas - Exhibited with The Storytellers 2018
Close-up photos of the quilt.
Folded Paisley
Size: 25” w x 25” h
Quilt made for: Church Chicks challenge - Fabric/Crayon, Art Quilt Group challenge - 3D
One fabric was chosen (the paisley on the inner border) as a theme fabric. Everyone picked three crayons randomly out of a paper bag and fabrics of those colors were to be used in the quilt. My colors were red violet, brown and scarlet orange.
Techniques: The five appliqué blocks are original designs and made from the paisley. The 3D blocks were a new technique and from the book, 3D Folded Blocks by Baron and Vermeer.
Close-up photos of the quilt.
A Take on Dancing in Heaven
Size: 68” w x 80” h
Quilt made for: Class by Ray Lynn Heintz Ray Lynn based the blocks of this quilt on her grandfather’s life story, starting out as a cabin boy on a ship to homesteading in Oregon. I had a beautiful floral design fabric that I wanted to use in this quilt so I added broderie perse to the center block and fussy cut some of the fabric for pieces in the blocks. I made additional blocks for the quilt and designed a different layout.
Techniques: Piecing, appliqué, fussy cutting, broderie perse
Awards: Third Place, Viewer’s Choice - Clark County Quilters 2010
Close-up photos of the quilt.
Painted Pansy
Size: 26” w x 26” h
Quilt made for: Church Chicks
My first attempt at trapunto and painting on fabric.
Techniques: Pieced, turning 3D edges, trapunto, painted pansies, some metallic paint.
Close-up photo of the quilt.
Patriotic Heart
Size: 24” w x 29” h
Quilt made for: Church Chicks challenge - to teach paper piecing
Techniques: Foundation paper piecing strips for miniature log cabin blocks in American flag colors. Pattern from Fun with Miniature Log Cabin Blocks by Donna McConnell.
Soaring Like Eagles
Size: 11” w x 30” h
Quilt made for: Clark County Guild challenge - Quote, Art Quilt Group challenge - Turn to Page 125
Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Techniques: Paper pieced eagle, original design in appliqué.
Still Life of Metal Flowers
Size: 31” w x 31” h
Quilt made for: Art Quilt Group challenge - Found Objects, Cover to Cover Book Club Quilters book - The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
“Marina’s days are consumed with the hard memories of the past and the light of life no longer shines in her”.
Alzheimer’s ravages a person’s memories and identity. It stops current time like a still life painting and a metal flower is rigid and stagnant.
This quilt was made with found object: metal flowers - tin can lids were cut and embossed, scrap plastic for the water glass, orphan block for the center panel, the candle is made paper fabric, flower centers are old buttons, and left over appliques leaves and stems from other quilts.
Techniques: Piecing, fussy cut appliqué, paint, embossing metal, thread painting, 3D items.
close-up photo of the quilt.
The Circle Game
Size: 24” w x 40” h
Quilt made for: Cover to Cover Book Club Quilters book - Not A Girl Detective by Susan Kandel, Art Quilt Group challenge - Circle, The Storytellers theme - Name that Tune
I took a class from Dianne Kane to learn to make the circles and decided to appliqué them on a quilted background.
Techniques: Pieced, appliqué, quilted on a domestic machine.
Awards: Best Domestic Machine Quilting - Quiltfest Northwest 2022
The Color Purple
Size: 13” w x 22” h
Quilt made for: Art Quilt Group challenge - Contour Drawing
Techniques: The quilt was foundation pieced. The candlestick holder was thread painted and the appliquéd 3D flowers are made of sheer fabric with beaded centers. Candle has paper fabric added for candle drippings.
Japanese Garden
Size: 64” w x 78” h
Quilt made for: a class by Carrie Thurnau
This quilt was started in a class by Carrie Thurnau using books by Kumika Sudo, Janet haigh and Kitty Pippen. This is my first three dimensional quilt. I added many of my own designs in applique and quilting.
Techniques: piecing, 3D folded flowers, appliques, cotton and metallic threads
Close-up photos of the quilt.
