Art Quilts

A dark purple grunge background with a girl in a fluffy tutu holding a tiny wand A fused patchwork brown floor and tiny pink ballet slippers Her wishes come true (8” x 13”) All that equals one of my favorite ballerina girls to date.

A small ballerina with a tiny tutu… ready to dance and grant wishes She grants wishes of happiness (9” x 13”)

My paint chip colors inspired another projects using canvas, sheet musics, fabric, wire, wool and thread. I created canvas quilt backgrounds bound pillowcase style. Then stitched slightly ruffled strips of sheet music to the background. For love, I tore strips of purple fabric and ruffled them as I stitched them to the background with orange

For a quilt guild challenge, we were to create a small quilt based on paint chips with color names starting the with same letters as our initials. My colors where Charcoal sketch (Black), Autumn sunset (orange) and Plum (purple). A few years ago, I found drawing of a haunted house that’s been in my inspiration file.

Another mushroom hunter. I like the hair on this girl and the basket was fun to put together with it’s interior and exterior. She hunts mushrooms for food and fun (8” x 10”)

Another version of the girl holding a mushroom. It’s the first time that ‘fungus’ has ever seemed okay to add to a quilt. I like this jacket look on a girl, but I’m not certain, I have the look of a turtle neck captured right. She grew up to be mycologist (13” x 10”)

This girl is kneeling with a basket of her freshly picked mushrooms. It is far from chilly here, but I somehow see mushrooms as cooler weather activity, thus the sweater and hat. She enjoys foraging for fungus (8” x 10”)

August in Alaska is also mushroom time. We have a fungus fair at the end of the month, so made a few mushroom themed quilts to celebrate. This girl is proudly holding up her first picked mushroom. ‘Mushroom’ is stitched into this happy green background. She was excited to pick her first mushroom (13” x

A ticket, a tasket, a blueberry filled basket. She’s likes eating berries as much as she likes gathering them.