Living Colour

Eureka! All cutting and piecing is done. Looks cool. I’m adding some shading by fabric felt-pen to give it a more 3-dimensional look. Painting on fabric. Now comes the quilting, lots of it. I love this part, to give the piece even more dimension, structure and depth.

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Living Colour

Finally, I found the guts to cut into this yummy hand dyed green yard from Judy Robertson. And also the guts to stick it to another gorgeous piece of hand dyes from Frieda Anderson or Laura Wasilowski. That makes about 50 bucks just in fabric.  No wonder, my thoughts still are: don’t mess it up!  

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Hoffman Challenge 2008

Just checked the new Hoffman Challenge , I’m not sure whether I like this fabric. As usual, lots of pink! I don’t like pink, that alone makes it into a challenge for me. Maybe there is something more I can do about the blues. For sure, I’ve to see the fabric in real, and I’m almost [...]

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Living Colour

For months now, I’m dragging around a postcard from my daughter, currently working and traveling for a year in Australia. It’s a photograph of a beautiful rainforest palm tree canopy. The “gazillion” of shades of green in this picture manifest Living Colour for me. What could be more living than a green forest?! I made sketches [...]

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Migrating Geese

Living in Washington State, every Spring and Fall, I get to observe lots of migrating birds. Most likely to see are Canada Geese, which form a gracious V while flying, they also navigate at night along the stars. All of this gave me the basic inspiration for my Jacket.   2. Place 2006 ,- Quilt Extravaganza [...]

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Ship? What Ship?

Two days of work. Still not even the blocks finished. One-hundred of them, 2 1/2 inches finished. Curved piecing in miniature. It seems to take for ever.  The whole quilt won’t exeed 25 x 25 inches, that’s my goal. All fabric is scraps of either commercial batiks or hand dyes. It started with a 5 x [...]

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Alice’s Garden

Currently shown at Zarzuela: http://www.spokane.net/stay_connected/PressReleases.aspx?prid=1283    A small glimpse into “Alice in Wonderland” –gardens. It all started as a challenge: A while ago, “Simply Quilts” challenged 3 artists to make a Scrap-Bag-Quilt. The results got the CQA- program chair started to hand out brown bags with odd fabrics, also a set of rules:  At least [...]

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Earth, Wind and Fire

Everytime we come back from the Olympic Peninsula via Bainbridge Ferry, the skyline of Seattle sparkles in the  evening light. Especially Fall brings out the glow of our northwest nature and lights up the city.   49″ x 49″    Machine pieced, comercial cotton batiks, cotton lamé, Hand and machine quilted This quilt was juried in to APNQ [...]

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Thirty-Two

April 16, 2007, I woke up to the news from shootings at a college. As the day unfolded, more dreadful news from Virginia Tech came in. Thirty-two makes visible how many innocent lives have been lost that day. Discharged fabric, Dupioni silk, red flannel, hand stitched THIS QUILT IS FOR SALE      

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Be a Girl

In cleaning up my sewing studio, I regularly find “Orphan Blocks”, usually test blocks or sometimes people give me leftover blocks “you’ll make something great out of it”,, Yeah, well. Curse or blessing? If it becomes a charity quilt, definitely a blessing! Ten orphan blocks with pink centers (I don’t even like pink) mixed up [...]

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