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I love fabric. I think I've always loved fabric!
I enjoyed garment and craft sewing beginning in my early teen years. As a young mother, I made clothing for my two children. Decades later in the year 2000, I inadvertently came across Eleanor Burns on her "Quilt-In-A-Day" program and the desire to try quilting was born. Consequently, I became an avid quiltmaker soon afterwards. Four years later after using patterns to make functional bed, lap-size, and baby quilts, I got out my pencil, sketch book and graph paper and began drawing and drafting my own designs for pictorial and landscape quilts. I'm now a quilter with a passion to make quilts pre-dominantly for competition and as wall-art. |
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There is considerable diversity in the style and appearance of my art. I work
according to ideas and inspiration and simply what interests me at the time. I use various construction methods to create my quilts including machine piecing, hand and machine applique, fusing, whole-cloth painting and machine quilting. The common 'thread' in nearly every piece is the use of some type of enhancement, embellishment, and more often than not, dimensional work.
Photography has been an enjoyment since my teens and has also been a useful tool. I've often captured great images which have been the basis for making landscape and pictorial quilts such as, "Resting," "Morning Visitor," "America the Beautiful," and others.
The culmination of my love for fabric, my faith, and the ability God has given me has resulted in quilt-art for personal enjoyment, competition, and to benefit others. I attribute this gift to Him.
I appreciate comments about my work via the "Contact" page. Please feel free to drop me a note!
according to ideas and inspiration and simply what interests me at the time. I use various construction methods to create my quilts including machine piecing, hand and machine applique, fusing, whole-cloth painting and machine quilting. The common 'thread' in nearly every piece is the use of some type of enhancement, embellishment, and more often than not, dimensional work.
Photography has been an enjoyment since my teens and has also been a useful tool. I've often captured great images which have been the basis for making landscape and pictorial quilts such as, "Resting," "Morning Visitor," "America the Beautiful," and others.
The culmination of my love for fabric, my faith, and the ability God has given me has resulted in quilt-art for personal enjoyment, competition, and to benefit others. I attribute this gift to Him.
I appreciate comments about my work via the "Contact" page. Please feel free to drop me a note!
Really 'Wild' Flowers! Second Season - 62" x 65" went missing in November 2011. There is a reward for its safe return |
My missing quilt, "Really 'Wild' Flowers! Second Season" has not found its way home yet. If you by chance see this quilt at a show, an exhibit, someone's home, or any other venue, please do contact me. It was neither sold, nor given away. |
2011 IQA Houston Show at the Tuesday night Winner's Circle Award Ceremony.
Caryn Payzant, Blog Writer and Social Media Coordinator for Road to California
quilt show, wrote an article featuring my quilt, "Really 'Wild' Flowers! Third Season." It was awarded "Outstanding Innovative Quilt" in 2016 at the Road2CA show.
http://www.road2cablog.com/winning-quilts/2016-outstanding-innovative-quilt/
My enthusiastic thanks to Sew Batik for their generous sponsorship of this award at the Road to California Show. See their beautiful fabrics at: http://www.sewbatik.com/
