Gallery - QuiltCon 2016

This quilt was designed to document my time living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I began with a grid outline of the state of Minnesota and decided to leave some edges incomplete to represent my experience of unexpectedly moving there and reluctance to leave. The area code in Minneapolis is 612 so I designed the 6one2 logo to reflect the region, placing the center of the one around Minneapolis, simultaneously creating an asymmetrical pop of color on an otherwise minimalist whole cloth quilt.

1981 began with no pattern but was a complex puzzle pieced one block at a time. I never knew which color or shape would come next, except within the block itself. Although 1981 is improvisational piecing, each piece was carefully thought out before joining it to the next. It represents my creative journey in life. 1981 is finished with hand quilting.

After settling on two ideas, I went with a third, more simple design aligning triangles vertically in colors that I love.

I designed an identical quilt for the online Pantone Radiant Orchid challenge in 2014 using a combination of Elisa's Backyard Drunkards Path template and the Mod Pop template from Julie Pickles Designs. Again with this quilt, I machine appliquéd lines and squares to enhance the design.

"An old solution to managing traffic at busy intersections is gaining new popularity. The rule of ""yield to left traffic and move to the right"" allows entrance to the many road choices depicted in this study. Hand-dyed and commercial cotton fabrics. Machine pieced and machine quilted."

I had been thinking about this pattern and the contrast between black and white for years, and finally decided to construct a few blocks. As I started to play with the blocks and rotate them, the strength of the color blocks really started to pop and created a great tension with the graphic black and white zones. What I ended up with was this quilt!

I have an obsession with the color orange. And I also have an obsession with sunsets. I often will sit at the edge of the water on Mission Bay in San Diego after a walk and watch the sun, sky and water all transform as the sun dips below the horizon. This quilt is my interpretation of those sunsets with the sun getting darker and the water (or perhaps the sky) getting deeper and deeper blue.

I started this quilt at a workshop with Faye Packham at the Ulladulla Quilters Gathering. Her pattern is called Japanese Reflections. I used the fabric line called Prince Charming by Tula Pink and White Kona Snow. I had to carefully piece the blocks so that they fit together. This is the biggest quilt that I have machine Quilted.

I made Ka-Bloom using Aneela Hoey's Bloom quilt pattern. I used my favourite colour fabrics for the flower petals. I cut the pieces using acrylic templates and a rotary cutter and pieced them together by machine. It took a long time to hand appliqué the four layers of pearls to the background fabric. This is my favourite quilt that I've made so far.

I started the Itsy Bitsy Hexie Quilt two years ago adding slowly onto it bit by bit. It is hand sewn using the English Paper Piecing technique over 1/2" paper templates with tiny crumbs of paper left over from other projects