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Contemporary Quilts
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Blue Ocean, Turquoise Sea
17" x 22", Machine curved piecing, sheer overlay, hand and machine embellishment, hand embroidery, beading.
Cotton, silk, organza, silk thread, cotton thread, beads.
Artist Statement: The great oceans cover three quarters of the earth and regulate global temperatures, shape weather patterns and are one of the
most important food sources for millions of people. We must protect them and pay attention to what the ocean is telling us.
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Ocean Collage #4
10" x 16 1/2", collage featuring batiks, hand painted fabrics, silk, sheers, machine quilting, hand embroidery, beading, couching and
bobbin quilting.
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Kelp
18 1/2" x 10 1/2", collage featuring batiks, hand painted fabrics, silk, sheers, machine quilting, hand embroidery, beading, couching and
paintstiks.
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Poppy & Irises
8 1/2" x 11", abstract view of my garden. Commercial and hand painted cotton fabrics, cotton and rayon
threads, beads.
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Emily's Forest
57" x 75", based on the work of Emily Carr, my quilt shows British Columbia's great forests - a theme
Emily Carr used in many of her most famous paintings. Machine pieced, machine appliquéd, machine quilted.
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Maisons sans Frontieres - Houses without Borders
52" x 67", depicts a future where people divided by political, ethnic or social borders begin to live in peace. Commercial cotton fabrics,
rayon threads, couched chenille threads.
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Protea
15" x 32", national flower of South Africa. Commercial cotton fabrics, cotton and rayon threads.
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Birches
11" x 17", collage including photographs printed on cotton, commercial and hand painted fabrics, polyester sheers, machine quilting and
bobbin quilting with cotton threads and embroidery floss. 2007 International Quilt Association Journal Quilt project entry.
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The Cloth of Africa
61" x 77", Only a part of my vast collection of African prints were used in this original exotic design. Coloured beads add emphasis to
the circles and ovals. Displayed at the American Quilter's Society show in Paducah, Kentucky in 2005 and at Pacific Northwest Quiltfest, Seattle, 2006.
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Arabesque
42" x 42", 'Arabesque' relates to the decorative melodies of classical music. My ornate quilting designs incorporate curves, swirls and
intricate geometric patterns. Fabrics are commercial batiks, appliqué and quilting with cotton and polyester threads, bobbin quilting with Razzle Dazzle.
Displayed at International Quilt Festival, Houston, 2006. Included in Ricky Tims' Rhapsody Quilts, C&T Publishing.
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Anemones
16" x 17 1/2", Anemones are delicate flowers that wave and dance in the breeze just outside my studio window. Digital photographs printed
on fabric, commercial and hand painted and stamped fabrics, machine quilted with cotton and silk threads. Included in the book "Innovative Fabric
Imagery", C&T Publishing.
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Whiteware Overlay
16" x 21 1/2", I collect 'whiteware' pottery and designed this piece using techniques described by Robbi Joy Eklow in her book
'Free Expression'. Commercial batiks, machine quilted with cotton and silk threads.
Private Collection.
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