I love batik fabrics, and I love fractal art designs. I wondered if I could make a wall hanging out of batiks in a fractal-like design. This is the result of that experiment and my own original design.

It's made from mostly batiks and done with raw-edge applique with fusible backing. I stitched-in-the-ditch around each shape and then free-motion quilted the background. It measures 31" x 36".

 

    I made this for my son celebrating his 50th birthday. It is made up of photos which are printed on cloth and made into blocks. The quilt tells the story of his first 50 years,

Absolutely white quilt with applique. It was stitched for the Ukrainian exhibition of textiles "Monochrome".

Great work with hand and machine stitch with white silk, gold and silver threads. 

Application of birds - trapunto. Flowers are made in the author's technique. The edge of the quilt is made festoons.

This quilt was three years in the making. The top didn't take that long, though. It was deciding on the quilting that took the most time. I really wanted it to be special, so I built up my free motion skills on other projects and continued to work on it slowly. It was recently displayed in a local art gallery highlighting my Quilt Guild's 25th Anniversary along with other artists' work. I think its my new favourite!

This quilt was made with 3/4 inch hexies,  english paper piecing. Appiliqued flowers and alot of tiny stippling.

It won 2nd place in the Fall Paducah quilt show.

I made a quilt for a friend going through  medical treatment.  She likes bison and archaeology, and this bison panel seemed perfect, so I purchased 2 panels.    I wanted to create borders that would augment the design, but not take away from it.   I made this second quilt for myself. While not complex, it shows how  you can use a panel to create a quilt by adding interesting borders.  

Last May when my mother went into Hospice care I felt the need to make something simple and colorful.  I found a pack of 5" sqaures in my stash and set to work.  I made "X" blocks with the warm colors and "O" blocks with the cool colors.  I added some embroidery on the sashings using a sparkle thread.  When I showed it to my mom, she loved it.  I hung it in her apartment where it stayed until she passed away in July.  Whenever I would leave my mom, I always said to her, "Ok, mom, gimme a hug and a kiss."  

this quilt is an original design tree-skirt, except for the Angels, baby Jesus, etc & etc. It has 8 triangle panels , each having a fabric picture of the typical characters of the nativity scene. 

"Dance floor: Orlando" is a tribute to the fallen victims of the recent Orlando massacre. It was designed so that we never forget these innocent victims.

This is my quilt group, Bayou Pierre Quilters, 2017 raffle quilt with proceeds going to St. Jude's. This was the 2011 BOM from the Quilt Show. We have been working on the quilt for about 2 1/2 years. It is machined pieced, and is being handquilted. Almost finished. Ours is aproximately 94" square, in springtime vibrant colors. It is being quilted by women from ages of now 50-93. If anyone is interested in tickets our email address is: bpquilters@gmail.com. They are 5.00 each. The raffle will be in 04/2017.

This quilt was made as a housewarming/friendship quilt for a dear friend in the UK. We met through TQS and although we have never met "In Person" we share many interests such as quilting, The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. . . and we are both retired nurses. Here's to you Yvonne Jenkins!

quilt made from Ricky Tims e-book Kool Kaleidoscopes received as a free book when renewing membership. I just used fabric from my stash to try out the technique. A design wall is essential for this technique. This was made on a Janome 8200 machine and some of the quilting was ruler on a domestic machine.

 Sophie, breaking through the canvas. Photo of Sophie by owner, Melanie Smith (used with permission). Photo transfer,thread painting, fabric paints, quilted by machine. Applied to wrapped canvas.     

Bye-Bye Baltimore - This is my Baltimore Album quilt from a year-long class taught by Mimi Dietrich.

I made this quilt from lots of batik scraps. I stuck them all in a big bucket, and the next one I pulled out is the next piece I used. I chain pieced all 12 blocks at the same time. I only had a couple of rules. I used a log cabin format, I wouldn't put the same piece in a block right next to each other. And I included a thin black line once on all four sides of the block. I had a great time, and it was very freeing! This was pretty out of the box for me.

I started these hexagons last year from scraps, put them up on my design wall in February,and could not take them down until they were together. Quarantine happened so I hand pieced all through March then didn't want to cover the creatures with stitches so I faced it! Then 'quilted" it with beads in each point. Entered it in the Quarantine Quilts contest(not accepted) but covered every stitch on the back with lille fused circles, just in case. I Love looking at this quilt and I will never forget the circumstances in which it came to be!

A baby quilt Made for a friend of my son's done using Anita Goodesign  machine embroidery designs.

Big, Bold & Beautiful - I used Batiks to make the plates to create a circular pattern.