Creations

My ruffling foot has been busy!

After making sweater vests for my kitties, I kept crocheting until I finished this baby blanket. Can you tell my friends had a girl? None of the yarns are alike, all acquired or inherited at different times It’s got a lot of different textures but all so soft. My helpers are still playing withe left

Trying my ruffling foot on my Brother – success = yards of ruffles 33 mini art quilts in progress; that’s a lot even for me!

I love when quilters send me photos of their creativity – inspired by my patterns and creations. Vicky create this french inspired girl using a Creative Girl Art Quilt Pattern. She wrote: So much fun. I decided to do a French theme.( I taught French for 35 years). I used my embroidery machine to do

I am beginning to love creating paper collages with fusible webbing as the glue. These girls were constructed with scrapbook paper backgrounds, dictionary pages for skin, white card stock with a lace overlay for dresses and black card stock for hair. They are outlined with ink and each one holds a string of ornaments or

(Color Me Girls – envisioning kids of all ages coloring in the girls) Connecting Threads is hosting a fabric design contest. I submitted 3 designs. (Write Dreams in the Sky) You can vote for all your favorites including mine. (Bloom & Grown) Vote for my fabric designs here (scroll down a few rows).

I cleaned out/reorganized my flat files and found art I had forgot making. This is a fused fabric and paper collage embellished with stitching and buttons. I usually add these pieces to a journal or frame them for my walls. I’m still deciding the fate of this one. Any ideas?

This is the final journal cover I chose to submit for the Global Talent Search. It’s so happy and me! I also designed a new logo that I used when I submitted my piece.