Sunday, December 7, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Tutu Divine

Backstage, after the show.
Labels:
ballet,
costuming,
Nutcracker,
Sugarplum,
tutu
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Festival Gallery of Quilt Art - Town and Country


Labels:
leaves,
Maple Leaf Rag,
nature,
quilts,
swamp
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Braving the Elements
These quilts are 17 x 22 and were submitted to Journal Quilts: Elements. Since I knew that only one at most could be chosen, I designed them to also fit the theme of the Bluebonnet Swamp show coming up in January. As it turns out, neither of them were selected for the Journal Quilt show, but do appear in an online show "Braving the Elements," a sort of Salon de Refuse, if you will. Both are based on photography by John Hartgerink (this year's swamp theme) and will hang in Baton Rouge from mid-January to mid-February, 2009.
based on photos of ice forming on a shallow pond.
Link to the online show:
Labels:
Fire and Ice,
flowers,
leaves,
nature,
quilts,
Summer Breeze,
swamp
Friday, October 24, 2008
Shady Lady
26.75 x 27.25 inches
Shady Lady is based on an original photograph taken in my shade garden this summer. After enlarging the photo, I applied it to a single piece of black fabric and cut away the white portions. After cutting, it was fused to the white fabric and straight stitch machine quilted over the black areas.
Will be traveling as part of "My World in Black and White," 2009-2011.
Selected as Judge's Choice by co-juror Leslie Tucker Jenison.
Here is a link to the online exhibit catalog:
http://fiberartsconnsocal.org/assets/blackwhite.pdf
Labels:
black and white,
caladium,
leaf,
nature,
quilts,
Shady Lady
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008

Breaking Traditions show opens at American Sewing Expo in Novi, Michigan. It will travel to at least 4 other venues in 2008-2009.
http://www.fibraartysta.com/breakingtraditionsmain.htm
Above is a link to the exhibit catalog, and to the right is a link directly to my square (seventh from right, second-to-bottom row). The entry fee was a donation to the American Cancer Society, and over $1000 was raised.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Home at Last

My quilt, "The Secret Swamp: Late Summer" finally made it home today after a rather harrowing 20 minutes or so at the local Post Office. Apparently, we did not hear the letter carrier at the door yesterday although we were home. I took the slip in this morning and they could not find the parcel. After 5 or 6 phone calls to the other branches, and several searches "in the back," it finally turned up filed under the wrong zip code. The address on the parcel was, of course, correct. Horrors! Despite being shipped flat, someone folded it. Fortunately, the fold missed the embellishment made with Fantasy Film, which creases permanently. I dampened the fabric crease with a spray bottle, and it's currently drying flat on a table. Welcome home from Houston, Chicago, Long Beach and Lowell.

Labels:
journal quilt,
leaves,
nature,
quilts,
swamp,
The Secret Swamp: Late Summer
Thursday, August 28, 2008
More Gratuitous Cute Kitten Pictures
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Mother's Little Helpers
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