Gallery - QuiltCon 2016

I designed this quilt after seeing a throw pillow, shifting shapes, and thought I can translated that into a quilt. I was drawn to the movement and used minimal colors to show the the half hexagons or missing half hexagons.

I was inspired by a local VW dealer add, of all things, to design this quilt. There was a beautiful prism background in the add that reminded of a summer sunset especially when there is a wild fire. I used half square triangles to create a prism effect when piecing the diamonds and the quilting was chosen to provided the horizon.

What was originally inspired by a little kids greeting card I saw on Instagram, quickly took on more meaning during the design process. After going nearly a year without any clever, new ideas for a quilt, I dreamt this up and the "creative drought" was officially over. Literally and figuratively!

"I am a modern quilter and my interest is in the language of our contemporary culture. As we have become globalized, our symbols have become recognized internationally. Now the on-off-standby toggle icons are visible on all kinds of devices, from microwave ovens to automobile dashboards. This is the alphabet of modern language!"

In this quilt, I left the security of the quilt block. This was challenging but also liberating! In this quilt, I play with the optics of geometry. The colors were inspired by the theories of Josef Albers.

This quilt is my interpretation of a Bullseye. I used improv piecing to create the Bullseye and then carried the design into the negative space with a repeating quilting pattern.

"Home" is my tribute to everything comforting and natural – to me, this is my marriage. I was inspired by Carolyn Friedlander's Botanics fabrics to machine piece trees improvisationally. I chose low volume fabrics for a contemplative background. The trees each display the range of one color from darkest value to lightest. Finally, on my home machine, I quilted woodgrain in the background to represent the rest of the forest, and swirls of wind high above. As Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros say, "Home is wherever I'm with you."

I was inspired by the song, Over the Rainbow, from the musical, The Wizard of Oz, which I had seen last summer. I took the words and used hexagons as musical notes. I hand appliqued the "notes", adding green and orange hexagons to my rainbow. I machine stitched them using the method I saw on Modern Handcraft. I washed it and the sides of the applique came out. I removed about one-third of the hexagons, creating a random set of hexagons. That is why it is called Random Perfection.

Inspired by frequency waves, my quilt is an abstract interpretation of what the word "love" might sound like. In the design phase, I auditioned different colors and ultimately decided to use the universal color for love. The quilt is constructed out of 1¼" strips of fabric (¾" after pieced). Big Love is the second version in a series of love frequency wave quilts I have designed and produced. The first version was considerably smaller, measuring 35" x 23".

Born out of a fabric challenge, the original design of Trimmings 2015 is intended to showcase Umbrella Prints textiles. The pink and peach fabrics have been paired with a grey shot cotton that adds visual texture and creates an irregular secondary pattern which is glimpsed as the viewing angle changes. The chevron quilting pattern is designed to quietly sit behind the pieced triangle rings ensuring the challenge prints remain the hero of the piece.