Azalea Lagoon
Proudly displayed at the National Quilt Museum Exhibit, 2017
My husband took this picture from an azalea park looking back on Big Lagoon. Oh, how I love that area.
60”x 24”
Techniques: Free form Picture Piecing using a picture as a photomap. Azaleas are hand painted and appliquéd. Heavily quilted.
California Gold
56″ wide x 44″ tall
Gary, my husband planted many California poppies under the church sign. I decided they deserved a quilt.
Techniques: Machine pieced, appliquéd flowers, some threadwork, beads, and crystals. Heavily quilted.
All wall quilts have a sleeve attached to the top back. This is used to insert a slat, dowel, or curtain rod for ease of hanging.
Sunny Girls
90”x 70”
I received an email with a wonderful picture of my sister’s twin grandchildren. How cute! – I kept coming back to it and wondering would there be a way to make it into a quilt??? Several months passed before my new piecing idea and my confidence grew to a point that I was ready to try it. It’s still a favorite–I have used it on my business cards. I have found that though people don’t remember me— they remember this quilt!
As time has past…I have enjoyed displaying this quilt whenever it seemed appropriate. Now the girls are both married and recently the quilt has been passed on to their care.
Greg’s Gone Fishing
55″ x 50″ tall
This quilt was a commissioned piece for my friend Jan as a memory quilt of her son. Inspiration photo of Greg Peticolas fishing in a stream in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in 2001.
Photographer Kimberly Peticolas, Greg’s sister.
Techniques: Free form Picture Piecing using a picture as a photomap. Heavily quilted.