My favorite part about Halloween is seeing kids dressed in their costumes trick-or-treating. We don’t get many trick-or-treaters here so I create Halloween art quilts instead. Last year I made these adorable art quilts and now you can too! With my Halloween Kids pattern, you can create a superhero, mummy, witch, dracula, or bride of […]
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I like asking, “what if?†In this instance, what if Alice became the Mad Hatter. Put her hair in a bun, add a hat and brighten up her clothes. Set her next to a table ready for a tea party and she most definitely can look the part. Could she be mad as the hatter?
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I had strips of the Tula Pink trees in blue and green sitting on my desk, rather than throw them in the scrap basket, I lined them up to make the background. My queen of hearts is wearing a red silk dress with a layer of satin under her skirt. She stands next to a
A guy in a purple suit with a lime green tie and top hat set against a similar background to yesterday’s Alice can only mean one thing. The Mad Hatter is having a tea party. He wishes a very merry unbirthday to you (13†x 16â€) I had a fun time creating tea cups, saucers
Months ago, I picked up tree fabric designed by Tula Pink in green and blue. The colors were a bit out there for a traditional outdoor scene, they reminded me more of something from storybook. So I created four Alice in Wonderland inspired quilts and paired the fabulous tree fabrics with dupioni silk for clothes.
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A white background stitched with lines and the word ‘bike’ holds a gray bike with a basket full of yellow hearts. The simplicity works well for these pieces and each one makes me smile. Yellow hearts bike (13†x 9â€)
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A message to encourage fun this weekend. Whether you plan to creative in your studio, dance in your kitchen or seek adventure outside, I hope you find yourself laughing. Let go: be wild and silly (5.5†x 9â€)
Sometimes, I have extra people cut out for special projects. I don’t want them to not have a quilt home, so I crated this happy outdoor scene and added both of these extra handstand girls to the top. I figured two girls with such precise movements had to be gymnasts or cheerleaders when they were
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Tiny flowers decorate a bright red skirt against a purple background. Yellow blonde hair on a rosy cheeked girl. I don’t fussy cut faces for smaller girls as I like the randomness and happy accidents that occur. This face created over a subtle break in the text print, looks a little futuristic when you see
On this last day of September, the autumn colors of Anchorage have been replaced with a blanket of white snow. It’s quite beautiful, but in my studio the world is still green grass and blue skies with an occasional autumn piece popping up. I’ve been creating more couples lately and I’ve been enjoying dressing the
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