Selection of Recent Quilts

Signed, Sealed and Delivered.  I made this quilt of the Deer Harbor Post Office to commemorate the community's successful effort to raise the money to buy the post office building and convince the US Postal System to keep our rural post office open.  Fabric collage, heavily quilted.  Winner of the Brother Corporation Best Workmanship, Stationary Machine Award and the 2019 Spring Paducah Quilt Week. 

54"x41", $2250

One Square Inch of Silence

Deep in the Hoh Rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, is one of only 5 places in the lower 48 states where you can be certain you will not hear any machine noises--no cars, planes, leaf blowers, boom boxes!  This is not the finished version, because there are still 2 pins visible on the surface.  $750

Bread with Blue Bike

Blue bike at the bakery at Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.  Fabric Collage with surface embellishment.  35"x37"$1350

Home on the Last Boat 

The Orcas Ferry landing, late at night.  We were in the overload lane for the ferry home, and the boat was running quite late.  Luckily we were able to board.  When we finally docked at Orca, I glanced over to the west and saw the Orcas sign on the terminal building.  It was a much appreciate sight that cold, wintery night.  Made of hand dyed and commercial cotton fabric collage, heavily quilted with a variety of threads.  34"x26". $750. August 2018, 

Before they Knew:  Election Day, 2016, NFS

My daughter took my 11 year old granddaughter to to the polls in November 2016 so she could watch her mother vote for the first woman presidential candidate of a major party.  They wore their pants suits, and my daughter wore her grandmother's broach to represent how far women have come.  Her grandmother, my mother, was born in 1919, before women could vote.  NFS

 

ELLA

August 2016.  Besides loving Ella, I was drawn to the high contrasts in photo.  SOLD

Dinner for Four.  

Feb 2017  This piece is meant to represent our dependence on the food web that begins in the sea.  I've never been happy with the bird in the upper left.  It should have been lower and closer to the bird on the upper right so that the wing of that bird overlapped the bird on the left.  Having that upper left bird floating in space weakens the composition, and drives me crazy.  Detailed selection below.  60"x40", $2250

 

Good Ole Boys at the Shady Rest
Hopefully all gasoline engines are headed to the Shady Rest.
Hand-dyed and commercial fabrics, fabric collage. SOLD

Old Man and the Sea

This old man wanted to look rugged, not cute. Lord.

Fabric Collage with commercial cottons.  Private Collection

Requiem for 42,000 Trees. 
In 2014-2017 this quilt traveled with Studio Art Quilter's Association's Trunk Show.   In 2017, it became a part of the permanent collection of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky.

The entire length of the Canal Du Midi, in France, is planted with London plane trees.  The trees became infected with a virus transported to France on wooden ammo boxes taken to France by the US Army during WWII.  The disease has spread to all the trees along the canal, and all 42,000 trees will have to be cut down.

And here's a couple oldie but goldies:

Deep in December

The Deer Harbor Community Club one snowy afternoon in December.  Shown at the LaConnor Quilt Fest, Honorable where it received an Mention, and shown at the 2012 and  Road to California.     

Farewell To Ruffles  

Made to commemorate the loss of J-1 "Ruffles".  He was not seen after December 2010.  I imagined his family swimming with him down Cayou Channel, to accompany him out to sea one as the moon rose over Mt. Baker. (Mt Baker isn’t actually that far south, but I like it there!)  This was one of 12 quilts selected to travel with the West Coast Wonder Exhibition, and be shown at the Houston Quilt Show.  SOLD