Inspiration: Preserve the beauty of an ordinary leafy branch.
Techniques and materials: Botanical contact printing on cotton.
Hung: 15 inches x 36 inches
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Butternut
Categories: Wall Art
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
$150
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Chestnut
Inspiration: Preserving the leaf of a sparse species in Ontario.
Techniques and materials: Botanical contact printing with fresh leaves on cotton.
Hung: 15 inches x 36 inches
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Inspiration: I find delight in colour, fibre (especially felt), beads and simple embroidery.
Techniques and materials: Felting, beading and simple embroidery.
Framed: 10 inches x 10 inches x 1.75 inches
Not for sale
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Trillium
Inspiration: As children we picked trilliums for Mother’s Day. This piece is in remembrance of my Mom.
Techniques and materials: Hand Embroidery, cotton fabric and threads, wire for shaping
Mounted on canvas: 6 inches x 6 inches
$75
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
$160
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Sweat & Tears
Inspiration: To the Incas, gold was ‘sweat of the sun’ and silver ‘the tears of the moon. The same symbolism applies to Yin/Yang.
Techniques and materials: Paint, hand embroidery, crystal beads.
Framed: 12 inches x 9.5 inches
$150
Inspiration: The beauty of ammonites, their form and colours.
Techniques and materials: Merino wool, wool locks and nepps, wire, beads, banana fibre
Hung: 14.5 inches x 12.5 inches
Not for sale
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Arches
Inspiration: The arches are used as a sampler with many stitches but needed something else so a floral path was added to the open arch.
Techniques and materials: Hand embroidery.
Framed: 8 inches x 10 inches
$100
Inspiration: One piece of fabric is connected to another in many ways. The type of connection may be functional but also decorative.
Techniques and materials: Hand embroidery, machine sewing. Cotton fabric & threads, beads, buttons, hooks & eyes, and more.
Hung: 25.5 inches x 20 inches
$400
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Fantasy Trees
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
$100
Inspiration: This is just a bit of whimsy inspired by my mother’s tales of toads living in toadstools.
Techniques and materials: The wet felted background is wool and silk fibres. The toad and mushrooms are needle felted with a 3D effect.
Mounted in an embroidery hoop: 8.25 inches x 8.25 inches
$65
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Please let me play
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
Not for sale
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BC Landscape
Inspiration: A trip into the BC interior with my parents and sister is the inspiration for this piece. The texture was created using needle-lace stitches.
Techniques and materials: Hand embroidery, painted silk fabric.
Framed: 11.25 inches x 9.25 inches
$100
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
$300
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Ciboulette Stitches
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
$180
Inspiration: Who would have thought that free motion quilting from the back, following a flowered pattern could end up in such a delightful piece?
Techniques and materials: Whole cloth quilt free motion quilted with regular and metallic thread and then beaded.
Hung: 17.5 inches x 18.5 inches
$350
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Home Fires
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
$140
Inspiration: This piece is inspired by the idiom “A Tempest in a Teacup,” a good one for a reminder not to take little things too seriously.
Techniques and materials: Linen, dyed repurposed tea bags, thread. Collage, machine embroidery.
Framed: 4.5 inches x 6.5 inches
$90
Inspiration: Tracking the moon’s monthly waxing and waning cycles delights me with welcoming, if changing faces. Even in the city, these faces remain accessible.
Techniques and materials: Beads, thread, cotton fabric, acid-free paper, batting
Mounted on canvas: 8 inches x 8 inches
Not for sale
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
$135
Inspiration: Honouring a beautiful golden elder that adorned our yard, but was removed because it was touching and killing the branches of a neighbour’s tree.
Techniques and materials: Machine piecing, raw edge machine applique, machine quilting
Hung, soft mount: 20 inches x 78 inches
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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
$45
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
$375
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Waiting for Juan
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
$225
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Night Sky – A Diptych
Inspiration: Long exposure photos of star trails.
Techniques and materials: Star Trails uses machine embroidery on batik, with beads. Spectral Blooms is a playful interpretation of the theme with machine piecing and embroidery.
Mounted on canvas: 10 inches x 23 inches
$75
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
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Inspiration: The excitement, uncertainty and hopefulness in the steps of people returning to their communities and homes after a period of forced abandonment.
Techniques and materials: Machine pieced and quilted cotton prints and hand dyes.
Hung: 40 inches x 66 inches
$375
Inspiration: The late Jack Layton’s sincerity, honesty and commitment to his ideals; leadership qualities now magnified in Ukraine President Zelensky.
Techniques and materials: Machine piecing and quilting; photo transfer.
Hung: 23 inches x 26 inches
$350
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
$175
Inspiration: Using freeform cutting and print fabrics suitable for human features, I created an amusing portrait of the staid Inspector Maigret.
Techniques and materials: Hand applique.
Hung: 12 inches x 30 inches
$125
Inspiration: A beautiful small piece of polished rhodonite influenced the colours for the beads and threads.
Techniques and materials: Beading and French knots, glass beads and cotton threads
Mounted on canvas: 6 inches x 8 inches
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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
$45
Inspiration: An idiom challenge resulted in this piece.
Techniques and materials: Beading and embroidery using sequins, seed beads, Angelina and threads.
Framed: 10 inches x 10 inches
$250
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Daffodils
Inspiration: Thoughts of spring.
Techniques and materials: Beading using seed beads
Framed: 6 inches x 6 inches
$125
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Greens
Inspiration: St. Patrick’s Day greens.
Techniques and materials: Beading and stitching with beads, seed beads and threads
Framed: 6 inches x 6 inches
$125
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
Not for sale
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Colours
Inspiration: Beautiful intense colours of seed beads
Techniques and materials: Beading
Framed: 6 inches x 6 inches
$125
