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The Quilt Garden
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The quilt fairy is using a sewing machine, but this gem was stitched almost entirely by hand. Techniques used to make it include stenciling, beading, reverse applique, painting and deconstruction. I began the piece in a class by Leslie Gabrielse at QSDS in Columbus. |
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Beaded Gold
18 by 23 inches
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Metallic gold cording and gold bars intersect the surface of this colorful multilayered surface. The beads in the beaded fringe were hand rolled of aerated clay and hand painted. They're so light, they barely tinkle when they touch the wall. |
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Brooke McMahan tribute
3 feet by 5 feet
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Please refer to the Memorial/Tribute section of this Website for a description of this enchanting quilt made from the clothes, jewelry and photo of Brooke McMahan, who died in 2004. |
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Cheshire Cat
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This mystical painted cat knows the secrets of the universe, but is not telling. Features are painted and stitched in metallic paints and threads. |
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Chinese Opera
13.5 x 17 inches
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This crazy quilt-like piece is made from silks, cottons, polyesters and brocades that include Chinese characters and opera fabric. Embellished with heavy machine embroidery and beads. This photograph does not show the black brocade binding that is further embellished by silver cording. |
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Dancing Bars
14 x 19 inches
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Bars of primary color undulate across the surface of this bright beaded quilt framed in dramatic black and white prints. Made primarily of hand-dyed fabrics.
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Desert Heat
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This multilayered, rhythmic art quilt with an African feel is embellished with metallic gold bars and two rows of whimsically matched beads. |
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Diva I
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The hair of this dimensional blue-eyed diva was sewn one strand at a time and pops out of the quilt. Her features are hand and machine embroidered and beaded. |
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Floating Daisies
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Daisies appear to spin and fill the multicolored sky as they float up into the universe. |
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Flower Frenzy
28 x 30 inches
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Multi-colored dream flowers unfurl against a dreamy blue sky in this joyful explosion of machine stitching. The sky is embellished with rows of echo quilting that encircle the flowers. |
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Flowers for Emily
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This is my dog Emily with a flower on her nose. It took many months to make this assemblage of millions of pieces of fabric. Her fur is stitched in metallics and her forehead is studded with sequins. Email me to discuss your pet's portrait. |
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun
24 x 32 inches
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This whimsical lumbering girl dog can't get her eyes off that flower. Her red painted front toenails happen to be shaped like a human's, because dogs are really half human, aren't they? |
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Guinevere
23.5 x 25 inches
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The original in the long-earred dog series, Guinevere is part of my personal collection. Small embroidered hearts encircle her golden muzzle. |
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Heron Rhapsody
19.5 x 22 inches
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A heron takes flight over a sunset made of hand dyed cottons. Large flat indigo beads run alongside the left side of the picture. |
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Infinite Virtues of Salad
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A colorful bird roosts in the branch overhanging a picnic table set with flowers from the garden, a cut apple, fresh grapes and crispy salad. A dragonfly adds to the serenity of the scene. |
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Infrared Kiss
16 x 17.5 inches
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This vividly painted art quilt was modeled after an infrared X-ray of two people kissing. Features are stitched in thread. |
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Lava Lamp
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This curvy abstract pops with colors and textures that are barely contained within their narrow polka dot border. I began this piece in a class with Cynthia Corbin at the Quilt Surface Design Composium in Columbus. |
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Life in the Deep
27 x 31 inches
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A school of goldfish, a baby octopus and colorful swimmers of other descriptions flutter through the underwater botanicals in this imaginary ocean backlit by the sun.
The piece was stitched with metallic threads in five colors that glimmer in the presence of incandescent light. |
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Long ear dogs series
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This was the third in a series of haunting long-eared dogs (afghans, doxies, etc). I have none now but will be glad to take special orders. |
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Love Dog with Flying Fur
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This is an Italian Spinone, a dog that attracts love wherever he goes. This one is heavily stitched in gold, silver and pink metallic threads. The wind is blowing the fur over the dog's left eye. |
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Magical Garden
18.5 inches square
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The beaded sun appears to spin over this lush hand embroidered flower garden made with perle cotton thread, sequins and beads. Everything in the picture was embroidered in heavy thread or silk ribbon. Rows of metallic gold machine stitching encircle the garden inside the blue border. |
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Mighty Protector II (sheepdog series)
23 x 23 inches
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The perennial view of the faithful sheep dog. All you ever see is a tongue and fur. |
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Moonflowers
28 x 41 inches
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Bodacious daisies and a pair of poppies crane their necks for a better look at the moon. Made with hand dyed fabrics and yellow gold metallic thread. |
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Mystique of the Llama
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This piece hangs in the living room of a Peninsula, Ohio, businesswoman and llama lover. It was the first in my llama series. I love llamas and would be glad to make another. E-mail me if you would like to discuss it. |
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Poppies in Perspective
21 by 24 inches
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The five poppies and gold and pink flowers appear to leap forward against a background of gently swaying vines and leaves in this shimmering art quilt with beaded fringe. Dimensions include the beading. |
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Pug series
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I've made several in this series and will make new ones by special order. Please e-mail me for more information. |
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Quilting Diva
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This blue eyed quilter traveled the U.S. with Quilting Arts magazine as a finalist in its Self Portrait challenge. Her hair pops out of the quilt and is embellished with her signature cheap plastic rose. Eyes are beaded. |
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Rhythm in Red
28 x 35 inches
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Vib5ant red poppies stitched in metallic gold thread animate their mottled purple vase with leaves aflutter. The whole is set against a complex blue and white hand-printed background. Two fading leaves have turned yellow and are ready to fall from their stems. |
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Safari
18 x 24 inches
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This earth-toned art quilt features rich browns and golds and is studded with small yellow crystals and metallic gold cording. Techniques used to make it include fabric painting, hand dyeing, discharge and batiking. |
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Silkscreened tablerunner
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This is hand painted cloth that has not been stitched or lined. It looks beautiful draped across a table top. |
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Silkscreened tablerunner
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This is hand painted cloth that has not been stitched or lined. It looks beautiful draped across a table top. |
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Still Life with Roses
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Sunset on the water
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Please email me if you'd like a landscape like this one. |
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The Love Quilt
29 x 41 inches
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No two pieces of cloth are the same size in improvisationally pieced art quilt that features the word "love" in two places. It is made with hand dyed and commercial cottons and features metallic gold thread and cording. Click on the upper left hand corner to see a dimensional "tail" embellished with the word "love." It hangs free of the main quilt; a row of lavender colored glass beads dangle from it. |
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Tropical Gabfest
18.5 x 23 inches
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A pair of tropical birds rest on a branch above a field of botanicals in bloom while the sun sinks into the horizon. Stitched in shimmering metallic threads.
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Two Cat Christmas
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I have made several Christmas cat pieces, but have none now. E-mail me if you would like something along these lines, with or without the holiday setting. I also make pet portraits and can work from photos providing they are good. |
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Two Flew By
25.5 x 38 inches
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Two Chilean flamingoes rest in a tropical landscape, sniff the flowers and lap up a cool drink. Every feather was sewn on the birds one at a time and heavily embellished with metallic thread that shimmers in incandescent light. |
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Winterscape
24 x 37 inches
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This winter scene is studded with crystal beads and sequins. It is made of hand dyed cottons and a shimmering white polyester for the snow. The leaves blowing forward off the front border are embellished with hand stitched leaf veins. The piece sparkles in the dark if there is any ambient light at all. |
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Woman in Red
Coming
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This sultry temptress took on a life of her own after she began as a color study. Her features are hand painted and hand and machine embroidered and beaded, as is the perimeter of the piece. Background is also hand stitched. |
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Woman Power
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Click on the picture for a closer view of the indigenous woman in the center of the art quilt with dimensional heart and hands.
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