"Fast Friends" 42" x 28"

Travel writer Sonia Poussin and her new Tanzanian Friend - ink painted and then thread painted faces set to a whimsical background

"Fast Friends" Details

Subject Faces are ink painted and then thread stitched

"Gimme Shelter" 29" x 19"

Inspired by photo image from "Doctors without Borders". More than one million Haitian were left homeless by the devastating earthquake of January 2010. This is my quilt art interpretation of a mother and son living in a tent because of that quake

"Gimme Shelter"

Details of above - Full cloth ink painted quilted then thread stitched and embellished with beads and other trinkets.

"Pretty Wings 23" x 30.5"

I created this art quilt of a glass winged butterfly to submit for a nature themed project. It's a whole cotton cloth ink painting of the beautiful rare insect with organza wings embellished with various threads, glitter and beads.

Pretty Wings

Detailed view of organza see through wings. Embellished with glitter and beads.

"Hello down there"

28" x 38" Discovery Challenge - Quilted interpretation of shrimp-like amphipod found in ice shaft in Antartica.

"The one that got away"

14" x 14" - Ink painted whole cloth using angelina fibers, tissue paper as materials; finished with freemotioned quilting.

Harvest Home

29.5" x 34.5" Fall Invitational Noble Season's entry. Whole cloth quilt with ink and thread painted scene of a front door welcoming guest during harvest.

"Everybody's All American" 38" x 24"

Tribute quilt to President Barack Obama. Tsukineko inks used for painting faces; then thread painted. Swaroski crytals, buttons and ribbon used for embellishments.

It's not easy being Green" 48" x 18"

My tribute to Earth Day. We all struggle with trying to be environmental. The point is to try to do the right thing for Mother Earth.

AC - DC Antony and Cleopatra DisCovered 24" x 36"

Archeology themed quilt. In April of 2009, what is thought to be the burial site of Antony and Cleopatra was discovered iat the Toposiris Magna temple, 30 miles from Egypt's ancient seaside capital of Alexandria. Here is my quilted interpretation of that possbile discovery. Papyrus papers quilted onto full fabric piece, embellished with threads, buttons, beads and glass asp.

"Pas de deux" 32" x 28"

"Pas de Deux" is my quilted interpretation of Mark Maple's brilliant photo. The French name literally means a "dance for two". When I look at this photo, it says to me that the two moths are in sort of a dance. In this piece I've hand painted the entire scene as photographed and then thread painted the moths with exaggerated colors, including an application of gold glitter on the wings. The wings were then further embellishments with various colored beads. Isn't it romantic?