Four Square quilt top completed April 2025 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s concrete block houses, the Millard House in Pasadena, California, I started this quilt in response to the devastating Southern California fires of January 2025. This quilt is a value study in color.
Read MoreRose of Sharon quilt top completed December 2024 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by scores of triangular leftover pieces from Aprés Le Sueur. Once completed, the flower like medallion shapes that emerged resembled the Rose of Sharon blossom, a flower rich with symbolic meaning, from the Bible to John Steinbeck’s […]
Read MoreSummer’s End quilt top completed October 2024 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by the colors of my favorite season, Autumn.
Read MoreAprés Le Sueur quilt top completed August 2024 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by French artist Eustache Le Sueur’s painting, Meekness, currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Read MoreLincoln Slept Here (And Other Specious Claims) quilt top completed January 2024 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by an overshot woven blanket design as seen at the President Abraham Lincoln Home National Historic Site (Springfield, Illinois) the summer of 2023.
Read MoreHoundstooth quilt top completed October 2023 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by learning that the houndstooth pattern has been found in textiles dating as far back as the Bronze Age from the Hallstatt Celtic Salt Mine, Austria, 1500-1200 BC.
Read MoreMonarch quilt top completed January 2023 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by 2nd-3rd century AD Syrian tile from art collection at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Read MoreWater quilt top completed December 2021 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by weaving design. This quilt is third in the series New Harmony: Earth, Fire, Water.
Read MoreFire quilt top completed October 2021 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by weaving design. This quilt is second in the series New Harmony: Earth, Fire, Water.
Read MoreEarth quilt top completed September 2021 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by weaving design. This quilt is the first in the series New Harmony: Earth, Fire, Water.
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