Inspiration: An abstract interplay of nine leaf-themed fabrics.
Techniques and materials: 100% cotton, machine pieced and machine quilted
Framed: 13 inches x 13 inches
Categories: Quilting
Inspiration: An interpretation of the colourful game many of us played as children.
Techniques and materials: 100% cotton, machine and hand stitching in various threads
Framed: 12 inches x 12 inches
$115
Inspiration: Minimalism with a significantly reduced design element against a dominant background.
Techniques and materials: 100% cotton, machine pieced and machine quilted
Framed: 12.25 inches x 12.25 inches
$115
Inspiration: People changed many habits because of COVID but the seasons continued as usual.
Techniques and materials: 100% cotton, machine pieced and machine quilted
Framed: 23 inches x 18 inches
$300
Inspiration: A gift of 150 small fabric rectangles required a dramatic setting.
Techniques and materials: 100% cotton, machine piecing and machine quilting
Hung: 20.5 inches x 27 inches
$200
Inspiration: A challenge to use my least favourite colours: pink, purple and turquoise.
Techniques and materials: 100% cotton, machine pieced and machine quilted, with buttons
Hung: 23 inches x 23 inches
$150
Inspiration: Sunshine through a leaded stained glass window.
Techniques and materials: 100% cotton, machine pieced, machine quilted, with beads and buttons
Hung: 18 inches x 21 inches
$150
Inspiration: Made for the “Guess the Idiom” exhibit at Stittsville Library in November 2021. My idiom was Once in a blue moon.
Techniques and materials: Hand painted middle section, hand appliqued moon, machine quilted.
Hung: 17 inches x 19 inches
$150
Inspiration: Wind blown maple leaves of many colours on a sunny autumn day.
Techniques and materials: 100% cotton, painted sky, fused leaves, machine quilted
Wrapped over a canvas frame: 12 inches x 12 inches
$125
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
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: 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: 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
