This vest was a gift for my mother's 82nd birthday, made in her favorite colors. (1999)
This vest won Viewers' Choice, 2nd place in the Wearable Art category at the 1998 Northwest Quilters Quilt Show.
This vest was my first piece done in antique linens, an area in which I am now expert! It took 3rd place at the Marin Needle Arts Show in 1993.
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This wallhanging (detail at right, above) demonstrates the role order can play in the creative chaos of crazypatch; pieced in the block construction method. (1992)
"A Cloisonné Garden" Fantasy Jacket: A personal challenge to use orange in a piece resulted in this fun jacket. (1993)
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"Hawaiian Sunsets"/2004
I started with a fat quarter of a fascinating Robert Kaufman fabric and pulled all the colors of the jacket based on that. Hawaiian hibiscus, an antique palm tree button, fish & starfish motifs made this a fitting momento of the Hawaiian sunsets we enjoyed on a trip to the Islands.
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"Paris 30th Anniversary Quilt"/2005
My husbad and I went on the trip of a lifetime in the summer of 2001 to England and France. We celebrated our 30th anniversary in Paris! Over a year later I found an antique silk "Souvenir of Paris" scarf that inspired me to make this quilt. An Australian internet friend, Josephine Symons, machine-embroidered the pansy motif, designed by Elsa Goussard, as a surprise for me, so it got to be a part of the quilt too!
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Cowgirl Crazy Quilt/2005
Using Lyn Brown's printed art blocks of cowgirls and their horses, I pieced this quilt as a surprise for my Mom's 88th birthday. The title is "Mama Was a Cowgirl", as she had a much-loved horse of her own while growing up in eastern Washington. She grew up on the ranch where her great-grandparents homesteaded, and they came across on the Oregon Trail, so there is a "Conestoga Wagon" fabric in the quilt, along with other Western-themed fabrics.
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