I recently made a small quilt for friends. It’s a barn of the past.
22″ wide x 16″ tall
The boughs on the tree are constructed of Superior thread, using a water soluble stabilizer, and a layer of tulle. I enjoy using this method to make the boughs look more realistic.
This quilt was made using a photo of an overblown artichoke as inspiration. It was dried up and left over from last years garden. It caught my eye and I decided to use it as I experimented painting on silk. The result was a fun project – of an unusual flower.
The use of silk has resulted in a very “light weight” feeling quilt.
It was displayed at the International Quilt Festival in Houston in 2021. Also at the Redwood Art Assn. Feb. 2022 (given Honorable Mention)
33″ x 38″
One of my favorite subjects, the redwood forest. This one is small and is in the mosaic style that I enjoy.
19″ x 23″
This tiny quilt was made for a Studio Art Quilt Assn challenge. It was a scene found in the Arcata Redwood Forest. 7″ x 9″
This tiny quilt was a photo transfer onto silk fabric and then heavily machine quilted.
I was honored to have the National Quilt Museum choose it for their Miniature quilt display–and then to feature it on March 14, 2021 #quiltmuseum30th
One thing you will notice if you visit a redwood forest…the people will all look up. You can’t resist, they are just amazing. This is done in my mosaic method with heavy quilting and sun rays highlighted.
31″ wide x 44″ tall
This quilt was juried into and displayed at Pacific Int’l Quilt Festival in 2018
The scene for the Guardian was set at Stone Lagoon.
The sky is woven, with collaged fabrics for the rest of the picture – except for the buck. He was painted on ultra suede – detail below. 39″ wide x 32″
Displayed and Humboldt Arts Council Show November 2019
Will be hanging in the Redwood Arts Assn Fall Exhibit Aug-Sept 2025
Commissioned for a friend who grew up in the redwoods of California.
As girls we ran and played in the forests, hence my love, (and hers) of this area.
I used my Mosaic piecing for the foreground and then collaged the remaining scene. The edge is finished with tiny piping, with a double corner treatment. (as shown during construction)
24″ wide x 51″ tall
Karen on the Blue River is a lovely scene of my friend’s granddaughter.
Many techniques were used to achieve the desired look.
This is the quilt as finished before we decided cut the rock to make it a rectangle.
40″wide x 33″ tall
Detail below and then part of the process I used to build the little girl.
The second quilt made of this round barn for my friend. This one is a different angle of the scene. I enjoyed having the opportunity to do another one.
The whole adventure of traveling to take pictures with my husband and seeing the barn after 12 years was fun. The sad part is that the barn had collapsed in the interim. Thankfully we had pictures from the earlier time at a different angle so that this quilt would be a little different.
45″ wide x 32″ tall
Below you see the painted barn with thread being applied for texture. then the fence which was the last touch, couched over the quilted piece.
My friend’s grandparents owned this barn during her childhood. This quilt was made as an honor to that memory. I used Mosaic foreground, painted barn image with heavy threadwork and embroidered trees. 35″ wide x 27″ tall
12 years later she asked me to do another one for her brother. See Thomsen Barn T