Gallery 2004-2007

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2004 Light Through the Canopy 55.5 x 42 Private Collection

This quilt was designed to suggest a tropical forest with light filtering down and shining through the thick canopy of trees. The beadwork and dimensional butterflies add the dimensional factor. This was my second wall quilt, and first competition and award winning quilt.

2005 Light Below the Surface 58 x 47 Collection of the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum

This piece was an adventure in extreme dimension. The water background is pieced. The coral reef is very dimensional and appliqued. 'Fussy cut' fabric fish, specialty yarn urchins, beads, shells and rocks compose other elements.

2006 Window Into Kenya 51 x 62 Collection of the Brigham City Museum

2007 Gentle Beauty 47.5 x 51 Private Collection

Beautiful Asian-style fabric was the inspiration for this piece. I ‘tweaked’ a sketch I’d drawn several months earlier to give it an Asian feel just so I could use it. Most of the elements on this quilt are hand-appliqued. Beads within the two largest circles add shine and texture. I made the cherry blossom with a gradated ribbon, then lightly brushed and enhanced them with pigment inks.

Sphere's of Influence 56 x 47 Private Collection

2006 Color Dance 42.25 x 56 Private Collection

Originally Color Dance was designed and created as a personal challenge to learn curved piecing. It was later, after the quilt was completed, that it became more meaningful. The bold array of colors appear to be joyfully dancing on the quilt. The large ‘ribbon’ of yellow, orange, and red resembles a treble clef; representative of music/dance. (Thus the title, “Color Dance”) The background represents the vast universe, with Swarovski crystals being twinkling stars. Rays and swirls of color appear to emanate from the center, symbolic of God’s magnificent creation of all things.

Victorian Flair 47.5 x 59.5 Private Collection

2007 America the Beautiful 72 x 57 Collection of the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum

This quilt was inspired by the hymn, "America the Beautiful." The center pictorial is hand appliqued and includes Pikes Peak and the Front Range. I subtly hand-painted the suggestion of our American flag in the sky. Piping and a gathered inner border surround the pictorial giving it a picture-within-a-frame look. Dimensional autumn aspen leaves peek out around the frame. Outer background is paper-pieced. The words of the first verse and chorus of the hymn is quilted around the outer border.