Dad's barn

A water color painting of the barn on my dad's farm which is now owned by my son.  His wife commissioned this painting.

And another one is finished. Luna Moth Fabric Art. The background fabric is hand painted to resemble birch bark. The Moth is appliqued on top. The antanae are made from embroidery floss. Quilt size is approximately 20" X24".

 

Another quilt finished. Monticello pattern by Jinny Beyer. quilted on my Long Arm.

bought this pattern in 1994, found it again with the fabric ready to go. Decided it was time to get it done. Paper piecing and machine quilted.

Current project

I painted the background on a 4' by 5' piece of cotton fabric.  The heron will be appliqued onto the background.  Then, the piece will be quilted.  The background colors are darker than they appear.  The rocks are very dark grey.  The scene is from a picture I took at one of the sites our Plein Aire paint club went to paint.

water lily

My, how time flies.  I didn't realize how long it has been since I posted anything.  I have been quite busy.  Anyway, here is a water color of a water lily I just finished.  It was started earlier this year at Lake Manawa in Council Bluffs, IA.  I am going to do a fabric art picture of this also.

Okay, so it took me about a year and a half to complete but it is finished and sent to the customer.  Free motion long arm quilting was quite a challenge.  Actually the whole project was quite the challenge.  Do I want to make another?  No. But then a double wedding ring quilt, along with the Grandmother’s flower garden were two quilts I said I was never going to do.  I’ve made both of them, now.

Just finished this water color of an arrow root plant.

Fabric art pieces

I have also completed three new fabric art pieces.

Bird house

I started and completed this watercolor of a bird house at the Plein Aire site we were at today.  It has been a long time since I have done that.  I usually finish the painting at home.  Things just seemed to work today.

Anime quilts finished.

Fabric Art. I just completed this fabric art. I took the picture of this butterfly at the Holy Family Shrine in Gretna, Nebraska. I started a painting there, and decided to change the flower to a pink cone flower. I went back to the original white flower in this fabric art piece. It took me 4 days to complete. Of course, I didn't do much of anything else during that time. The piece measures 27" X 36".

Just finished this top, Thunder cats. Change the position of the colors and you have a whole different quilt.

New Paintings They are actually a lot brighter than these pictures show.

New Quilts

Western Shirt Memory Quilts

It's been a long haul but the Western shirt Memory Quilts are done, delivered, and paid for.  Now on to the rest of the order of 9-12 pillows and 2 memory hearts.

New projects that have been keeping me very busy. The Frozen quilt is made from my 2 year-old's outfit she out grew. The corners and the small triangles are from the pants. The next three are T-shirt memory quilts. There are actually 4 in the set but I only have pictures of three. The last two are also from a set of 4 quilt made from a customer's father's shirts.