With dogs, their eyes are truly the windows to their souls.

 

This quilt was created to display tee shirts worn by the Friends of Appalachian Summer during the first 20 years of the festival.  In addition to 4 tee shirts, the quilt includes fabrics with music and mountain motifs, since the Festival is held in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains of Boone, North Carolina.

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of Heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the Angels.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow                                               

 

 

 

 

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".

 

Growing up on a ranch, it always stirs emotions when I come across an image as this.  Once a treasure now 'put to pasture' begins the thoughts of the stories this relic could tell.  My heart ponders as I create my art piece and finally conclude that life has a way of moving on.

Last Best Class - Made as a graduation quilt, this quilt is done in school colors and has a center star with photos from Jarrett's senior year.

Irish Chain

In God's Light - A christening set and quilt made from my friend's wedding gown.

Bed Time Baby - I used fabric that I designed for Timeless Treasures to create this baby quilt. I love how soft the colors look together with just a splash of blues and muted teal.

Poodle in France - This was a challange for Loomis Quilt Guild, I had so much fun designing this and putting some of my Grandmother's buttons and baubles on the poodle.

First Steps - Raw-edge appliqued. Background fabric was fuzzy cut and freemotion quilted

Hummingbird - Hummingbird and flower thread-painted and appliqued to painted canvas.

Imperfect LeMoyne - Watched Alex's class , made LeMoyne star blocks from scraps. Used quilt as you go method. The blocks were all different sizes!! sashing is all "skiwiff". It is certainly not perfect but fun to do and my four month great great niece loved the colours. I've had hand sewing all winter, used a lot of odd fabrics and I am trying not to be annoyed because its imperfect.

Hearts-a-Plenty - All machine appliqued and quilted. Original design by ohgee. . . .

Proud Heritage (aka Bailerin Linda) - My former student and now friend Margie Torrence was ' a while back' a professional Mexican folk dancer at the Padua Theater in Claremont, California. She showed me a full length standing pose photo portrait and I begged she let me interpret her in a wall piece of my own. Margie was such an elegant representative of her heritage. She's a beautiful lady.

Java Delight - This pattern is professionally printed on 2" x 7" aqueous coated bookmarks. Retail for 3.99, and I LOVE wholesale inquires! 7 designs/bookmarks to choose from!

Tweetlebird Lane - This quilt makes me smile! It's easy to piece and would be great in brights! Inquire at my website for pattern..............

Sunshine on my Shoulders - This is my completed quilt from the sensational strippers exchange! I added 'another 100' batiks from what I had received. Yellow connecting batik was a color experiment that worked.