Monsters Postcard swap

Front and back of fabric postcard swap..

year in review

Pizza with Money!

Made 3 Pizzas with a total of $110 in dollar bills plus change. Designed signs in software and printed on paper. Punched holes in red cardstock and used painters tape to attach. Added many embellishments to decorate the boxes both inside and out. So much fun!

Dream Big

Finished during a quilt a long and learned lots!It is a labor of love and a gift for my granddaughter.

Collaborative Book

We each decided our theme and size of art and made book pages for each other. I picked Positive Vibes as my theme and chose a 4x6 size so I could also incorporate some of my postcard and ATC swaps in my project. Created a book with watercolor papers, paint, and many embellishments. When I receive my Cnandian partner's page, I will add it and finish the book. I love how its turning out!

Flamingoes Fabric Postcard Swap

Coneflowers Postcard Swap

Day of the Dead Postcard Swap

Halloween atc swap

Halloween 2021 Postcard swap

Is the scardy cat more afraid of the Ghost or Corona Virus?

Home postcard swap

Love laughter and hope..sent these Home themed fbric postcards to Meloney, Nancie, and Ashley

The Wonder Of Eyes Textile Exhibition and Art Exchange

These quilts were part of The Wonder Of Eyes Textile Exhibition and Art Exchange in Australia at the Australasian Quilt Convention in 2021. Visual Information By Charlotte Scott is the quilt I got in exchange for my Apple Of My Eye. Charlotte,from New Zealand, has an abundance of beautiful french knots and exquisite hand embroidery. The photo does not capture the wonderful details. I am so lucky to have received it! Brenda Gael Smith, the curator of the exhibition actually spun a wheel for the fun exchange in a zoom meeting. The quilts https://www.instagram.com/p/CSpkAyZBUs5/?utm_medium=copy_link The fun exchange https://www.instagram.com/p/CSmDbkkpUcu/ It was also a fundraiser for the Fred Hollows Foundation so that sight may be restored on others.

Sunbonnet Sue 's Surreal Time

To cope with the pandemic, she waters her fat quarters to grow them into a fabric stash and imagines she can make it work...just like Project Runway! She also declares the corona virus is out by banishing it to a memory jar. Materials: beads, buttons, cotton, net, trims Techniques: Block designed in computer software. Stencil and ink, die cuts, print on fabric, yo yo, machine and hand applique This is a block for the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild Can't wait to see the new quilt which will be assembled soon!

Halloween Artist trading cards 2021

Made these for ATC exchanges this year

Mary's theme for the Artist Fiber Book Collective is Mending. This page for her is entitled...By Hand or Machine?

Graduation pillow

Designed in software, printed on fabric, quilted a pillow for a graduation gift. Hope its a memorable keepsake!

Zentangle ATC swap

Smile!

On those days, when needed. Made them for an ATC swap.

Flowers

Theme: Botanicals in jewel tones for Jan as part of The Artist Fiber Book Collective.

Layered net, dyed lace, button, ric rac

Fabric ATC swap

Death

 

Made this fabric page for Mitzi for the The Artist Fiber Book Collective. Her theme was death.

Spring in Progress

 

 

I started with a background color that reflects my blue mood as I am submerged in grief.        

Merill Comeau ‘s Challenge asked us to self reflect and pick text to create our work.

Spring means new growth and hope to me. I appliqued and paper pieced flowers and flourishes and embellished with beads, trims and hand embroidered the rain and flowers

 

 

Combined 3 challenges in one.

TextileArtist.org Community Stitch Merill Comeau Challenge 2021: use text

Needlework and Textile Guild of Michigan challenge #7: Hurry Spring

Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild Challenges to Connect: April Showers Bring May Flowers

March 2021

Four Seasons, Artist Fiber Book Collective

 

We are creating pages for the Artist Fiber Book Collective. Made this page for Pat who chose a Seasons theme for her book.

Cottons, opalescent fabrics, net, beads, sequins

Paper Cloth Flower

 

Combined great ideas from two workshops to create this paper quilt. Loved Sue Stone's video on composition and border colors and Margarita Korioth's techniques for creating paper-cloth.

Magazine text, cheesecloth, net, tissue paper, paint, yarn, hand embroidery on a Shapeflex interfacing base

My Inner Child

 

My inner child now lives life vicariously though the eyes of my grandkids. Their endless energy and enthusiasm keeps me vibrant and young!

The final Project quilting challenge, Ab intra, asked us to look within.

A Crazy Time …Enjoy The Show!

 

Corona sun, the storm is upon us.

It feels like we are living a crazy movie!

Crazy quilted sails, mask, felted boat, vaccine, silk ribbon embroidered moire frame

Every cloud has a silver lining... the best is yet to come!  

Combined two challenges..one for You’re Crazy and another for March Madness