Art Quilts

Colorado Splendor

This quilt was made for my quilt guild to raffle off. My good friends’ son won the quilt. Pieced background, Elk & Columbine were painted on white fabric, cut out and appliquéd to the quilt top, then quilted. 90” x 98”

Prowler on Cat 2

I made this quilt to commemorate my husband’s US Navy career. This is depicting a night Cat shot off of an aircraft carrier with an EA-6B Prowler on the Catapult. There is an A3 Sky Warrior (ghost like image), the first plane that he flew in. He was the Commanding officer of the Scorpions of VAQ-132 for 18 months. 38” x 40”

Greening Mother Earth

This was a recycle challenge, we could not go and buy anything new, we could only use what we had and the 2 pieces of fabric that was given to us for the challenge. One of the fabrics was a light cream, I painted the face and the oceans on it. the Green dot fabric they gave us became the continents. I made the entire quilt on my long-arm quilting machine. 30” x 30”

Life is Sweet

This one was made for the 2016 Hoffman Fabric Challenge. The wings and tail of the humming bird is the fabric that we had to use, everything else was hand painted on white fabric, then quilted. An artist facing finished the edges and was hand stitched to the back along with a hanging sleeve. This quilt won Best Machine Workmanship in the Mixed Category. 22” x 18”

Pink Perfection

I used my son’s photo of a peony to hand paint it on to white fabric. It was made for a Whisper Challenge in 2010. This was my first finished, hand painted quilt using Tsukineko Inks on PFD (prepared for dye) white fabric. 24” x 18”

Nauti but Nice

Using the 2015 Hoffman Challenge Fabric I created a coral reef around the hand painted nautilus. The ocean was hand painted, then I quilted it adding an artist facing and hanging sleeve on the back. 20”x 15”

I Just Want to Have Fun

Our quilt guild’s challenge in 2009 was a tropical theme. I envisioned a polar bear on vacation in the tropics. I knew he would be sliding out of a martini glass under the rays of a lime sunset. 45” x 38”

Burrowville USA

I entered a Route 66 Challenge in 2012. We got to pick the location along Route 66 that we could design our quilt around it. I chose an area near Havasu Falls and Oatman, Arizona where burrows roam freely along the streets. There were 56 quilts altogether that traveled for 3 1/2 years around the USA. 18” x 22”

Laundry Day at Hoffman

2013 was the Hoffman’s Challenge 25th anniversary. I decided to have all 25 fabrics hanging out to dry, with Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods in the back ground. The whole background was hand painted and all 25 fabrics were appliquéd on to the top of the quilt. 40” x 32”

Who Hoo’s There

The fabric depicting water and a stream is from the 2011 Hoffman Challenge Fabric. The Owl, background, and island are all hand painted with Tsukineko Inks. The flowers on the island were cut from the Hoffman fabric and appliquéd on. Trees quilting in the background represents the forest the owl is in. 30” x 40”

Sea Stack at Sunset

This was made from a photo that I took off the coast of Oregon at sunset. The background and water were painted. The Sea Stack is made of distressed felt that was painted with Shiva paint sticks. Various fabrics were appliquéd on to add more color. 24” x 30”

Glen Eyrie Berries

This quilt was made for Katie Pasquini Masopust and Brett Barkers quilt book “Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter“ in 2004. I took their 4 day workshop, that was used for the writing of this book. It was the most intense 4 day workshop or class that I have ever taken, including my computer classes. 28” x 34”