Inspiration: Preserve the beauty of an ordinary leafy branch.
Techniques and materials: Botanical contact printing on cotton.
Hung: 15 inches x 36 inches
Inspiration: Time spent in the garden literally flies. This play on words has “time-flies” positioned around a clock with dragonflies at 10 minutes to 2.
Techniques and materials: The background is wet felted from wool fibres, with needle felting, embroidery, and stitching on the top layer.
Mounted in an embroidery hoop: 12.25 inches x 12.25 inches
Inspiration: The roots (mycelium) of a seemingly insignificant little brown mushroom facilitate the connection, communication and even sharing of nutrients, between trees in the forest.
Techniques and materials: The background is wet felted from wool, silk and banana silk fibres. The trees and mushrooms are needle felted.
Mounted on canvas.: 14 inches x 11 inches
Inspiration: After withdrawing threads from linen, trees were creating by wrapping the vertical threads, adding a variety of dimensional stitches and placed over a silk background.
Techniques and materials: Hand embroidery. Linen & silk fabrics and a variety of threads.
Framed: 11.25 inches x 13.25 inches
Inspiration: Expressing my deep desire to play using a dye clean-up rag since everything is worthy of being made into art. Workshop with Vanessa Marr.
Techniques and materials: Embroidery, Sashiko, appliqué on cotton using thread on hand-dyed scraps mounted on a fabric covered canvas with wooden clothe pins
Mounted on canvas: 14 inches x 14 inches
Inspiration: Made for “Dust off an old quilt book” blog hop. The curtain of sari silk strands creates an aura of mystery with lights beyond.
Techniques and materials: Stuffed connected rolls made of hand-dyed cotton. Hand-dyed organza free motion quilted with silk thread, curtained with sari silk strands.
Mounted on canvas: 14 inches x 11 inches
Inspiration: The Ciboulette (chives) flowers are immortalized on a pretty hand-stitched piece made during a workshop with Sue Stones in the Stitch Club 2020.
Techniques and materials: Cotton woven background embroidered with perle cotton and quilted with embroidery floss
Hung: 7.25 inches x 10.25 inches
Inspiration: We’ve all been home…a lot. This piece come from thoughts about what it means to have a safe place, and what it takes to keep it that way.
Techniques and materials: Cotton, embroidery floss, sequins, tulle, ribbon. Fabric collage, machine and hand embroidery.
Mounted on canvas: 12 inches x 12 inches
Inspiration: The dandelion seeds blowing in the wind represent the friendships military children form with each family posting. The yellow flowers represent their ability to flourish anywhere.
Techniques and materials: The dandelion seeds are handmade from silk fibres set into a wool core. The wool background is wet felted with needle felted flower details.
Mounted on canvas: 12 inches x 12 inches
Inspiration: I seem to have an overwhelming desire to go live in the forest where it’s quiet and peaceful. Who knows what creatures I’ll meet?
Techniques and materials: The background is wet felted from wool and silk fibres. The mushrooms are needle felted and have a 3D effect.
Mounted in an embroidery hoop: 5.5 inches x 5.5 inches
Inspiration: The power of tectonic plates. Convergence features a plate moving below another at a coastline. Hot spot represents shifting below the sea.
Techniques and materials: Raw edge machine applique using batik and hand dyed cottons. Machine quilting.
Mounted on canvas: 24 inches x 27 inches
Inspiration: Empathy for those in the path of a violent storm, nervously awaiting its arrival, or dealing with the aftermath.
Techniques and materials: Needle punched wool through cotton backing, machine applique; organza layered over; machine embroidery on top
Mounted on canvas: 12 inches x 24 inches
Inspiration: The large poppies represent the serving members of our military and the smaller buds represent military children who grow up and answer the call of duty.
Techniques and materials: This picture was created by blending wool fibres with silk and ‘painting’ them onto a background of natural linen and pressing under glass.
Framed: 9 inches x 11 inches
Inspiration: Nature’s triumph. In 1711 construction began on a huge monastery in Antigua, Guatemala. It was finished four years later, but was demolished in 1751 after a third major earthquake.
Techniques and materials: Raw edge machine applique, photo transfer, machine couching and quilting; lower border a weft Ikat from Guatemala.
Hung: 20 inches x 16 inches
Inspiration: I wonder what’s cooking inside these little cottages in the forest and I wonder who lives inside.
Techniques and materials: The background is wet felted from wool and silk fibres. The mushrooms are needle felted and have a 3D effect.
Mounted in an embroidery hoop: 4.25 inches x 4.25 inches
Inspiration: The freedom of improvisational piecing lets me play with beautiful fabrics and colours. Curves, circles and fiery colours bring to mind orbiting planets.
Techniques and materials: Batik fabrics, improv piecing, free motion quilting with silk thread
Hung: 18.5 inches x 16 inches