Quilts

--8 quilts--  This project was especially fun.  It started with a wonderful gathering of the group.  We each brought our camera and spent most of the day at Woodley Island in Humboldt Bay.  Pictures were taken, followed by lunch at the Marina Cafe.  Then Maggie...

SOLD 2009  This quilt was inspired by a photo shared with me by a friend.  It's of her daughter and granddaughter.  The beauty of mom and baby was a joy to paint. Techniques: Painted whole cloth and heavily quilted.

NOT FOR SALE LITTLE MISS BRIGHT EYES...(CHRISTINA) 2006 I decided it was time to make a quilt of Christina and chose one of her favorite childhood pictures.  I used it as an example for teaching the method to others. Techniques: Mosaic Picture Piecing using a pixilated...

Proudly displayed at the National Quilt Museum Exhibit, 2017 2007 My husband took this picture from an azalea park looking back on Big Lagoon.  Oh, how I love that area. Techniques:  Free form Picture Piecing using a picture as a photomap. Azaleas are hand painted and...

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.

NOT FOR SALE AT THIS TIME 90”x 70”  2005 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...

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...