Other Quilts
Hawaiian Garden
36" x 54"
Completed in 2016
MQX quilt show called for quilts in their Alfred Shaheen Vintage Panel exhibit and I decided to make one just for fun. I found the beautiful center white linen panel online and designed the borders around it. I quilted, then painted the light green border. . They are hard to see, but I quilted in a frog, a pig, a parrot, and a flying bird in the ce
Kanazawa Memories
35" x 30"
Completed in 2015
This quilt honors the Japanese women in Kanazawa, Japan, who not only taught me Ikebana but also how to manage a Japanese home more than forty years ago. I lived in Kanazawa for three years. Commercial embroidery for the Sashiko embroidered blocks, digitally painted flowers printed and arranged on the quilt top in the Japanese style vase constructe
Dad's House Plan
48" x 38"
Completed in 2013
This is a memory quilt honoring my dad, a civil engineer, whose dream to build a home for his family was overtaken by life and illness. This is not his design, but I believe it is close to what he wanted to build. House design plots quilted with four sizes of threads; House is appliqued, landscaping is both in-the-hoop embroidery I designed, decorative
Out of Mom's Workbasket
57" x 57"
Completed in 2020
After my Mom passed in 1998, I found the five 10 x 10 inch crocheted squares. Commercial machine embroidery in the borders, the center star, the sewing machine, and the scotty dog. I painted the flowers and birds after I quilted them. Embellished with pearls along the binding, hot fix pearls throughout the quilt, and five handsewn pearls.