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Shards: Self-Portrait as Pottery  
14" H X 15" W X 15" D  NFS
Honorable Mention, 2012 La Conner Quilt Museum
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The first of my 3 dimensional quilted works, Shards was designed as a "parody" of sleeve cap patterns from dress making.  Each panel is a variation on the curve at the top of a sleeve - the part I most hated in clothing construction.   I created a vessel where the curves are sewn together rather than set-in.  The patterns are many of the doodles I did as an inattentive child in school.  The Southwest color palette reminds us how universal so many of those patterns are among cultures.

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Protea
14"H X 16" W X 16" D   NFS
Protea is a winged vessel.  Each panel of green cottons is overlaid with a collage of coral to pink organzas, all free-motion quilted.  The edges have a couched rim of jewelry wire to hold the form.  

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Cottonwood, Columbine and Hummingbird
18" H X 18" W X 12" D  NFS
This work started with a found piece of cottonwood.  I matched the wood with a slab of Rocky Mountain granite for the base.  The fabric 3 dimensional Columbine, Colorado's state flower, and a hummingbird, native to the Rockies, completed the composition.  The bird is mounted as "floating",  held in place by the hand-carved walnut beak that is secured through the blossom to a very convenient insect hole in the wood.  

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Monarch
​15" H X 15" W X 12" D  sold
This is a free-standing fabric sculpture in the abstract form of a Monarch butterfly.  Its wing panels are double layers of organza collage with heavy black thread painting to create the wing markings.  The inside "body" is a found piece of cottonwood with a Monarch caterpillar made of embroidery floss.  

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Staghorn
20" H X 20" W X 20" D  sold

Staghorn ferns are among my favorite botanical subjects.  I tried to capture the fullness of the cluster of both reproductive and nonreproductive fronds by mounting the piece up on clear Plexiglas rods to elevate it.  The fronds are layers of cotton fabrics, heavily free-motion stitched.  The inside of the cluster is crocheted yarns with a hand-sewn batik gecko.


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Waugh Struck Series
9" H X 6" W X 5" D  and 11" H X 4" W X 4" D  available

​Fellow fiber artist, Carol Ann Waugh, inspired these forms with her signature "Stupendous Stitching" technique.  I mimicked the colors and stitch patterns Carol often uses to make these 3 dimensional pieces in her honor.  


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Reef Forms
16" X 20" W X 17" D  available

Inspired by the glass forms of artist Dale Chihuly, I wanted to make a composition of forms in fabrics that also suggest corals and shells of the sea.  Satin and organza fabrics heavily stitched with rayon and silk threads and glass beads are used to give the piece a wet look.

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Aurora Borealis
19" H X 29" W X 4" D  sold
Best of Show, Fabric of Legacies, 2012

Aurora Borealis is three panels of layered organza, stitched with rayon and silk threads and hand beaded.  I suspended the panels with clear fishing line (6# test in case you are wondering) inside a Plexiglas frame.  The edges of the panels have couched jewelry wire to allow them to be shaped into the flowing curves often seen in an Aurora Borealis display. 


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Solar Flares
48" H X 24" W X 24" D  sold

Solar Flares was designed to be a contrast piece to Aurora Borealis in 2012, a year in which high solar flare activity caused an abundance of Aurora displays at earth's poles.  Each tendril, or flare, is made of hand painted fabrics wrapped around a wire form padded with batting.  Each flare is also hand stitched and beaded,  Some flares are made of double layered organza, heavily stitched and wired to hold flattened, curved shapes.  

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Tetrahedron Fun
24" H X 18" W X 18" D  available

I love the mathematics inherent in nature.  Tetrahedron Fun is an abstraction of the form of a Sweet Gum seed head.  It is a set of 5 nested tetrahedrons, or 3-sided pyramid forms.  Satin fabric, free-motion stitching with rayon and silk threads, couched ribbons and hand-sewn glass bead work make the piece shine.  

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