Category: Quilts

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Grapevine

Grapevine

12.5 inches wide x 18.5 inches long
32 cm x 47 cm

This little quilt features  a digitally embroidered grapevine design which I’ve extended by adding hand painted bunches of grapes and extra leaves. I worked the embroidery over a digitally quilted design and combined it with free motion machine quilting. The fruits and leaves I’ve added have been painted with acrylic fabric paints and finally I embellished the work with lots of hand stitched French knots. The cotton fabric base is a digital print of some flaking plaster Laura photographed on holiday in Portugal. I liked the idea of the vine scrambling over the ancient wall of the house!

£110 includes postage to the UK.

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Lemon tree

Lemon Tree

12.5 inches wide x 21 inches long
32 cm x 54 cm

This pretty little quilt features a digitally embroidered leafy branch to which I have added hand painted lemons and a few extra leaves. The quilt is densely quilted with free motion machine stitch in a matt cotton thread that contrasts nicely with the lustre of the rayon stitched embroidery. It has a hidden hanging sleeve on the reverse and is all ready to display. Might look perfect in a kitchen or dining room don’t you think?

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Waterlilies

Waterlilies

10.5 inches wide x 23 inches long
27 cm x 58 cm

This pretty little quilt features a digital print of one of my pastel paintings. It has been free motion machine quilted using a variegated rayon thread. The lovely fern motif was digitally embroidered and finally hand painted using metallic fabric paints.

£110 includes postage to the UK.

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Silver Trees

Silver Trees

39 inches wide x 39 inches long
100cm x 100cm

This quilt was made to satisfy a challenge for our Thr3fold exhibiting group. It was inspired by a fabulous sunset viewed one evening during the drive from the hills above Vancouver to downtown. The silver trees that gave the quilt its name were a beautiful feature of the garden of fellow Thr3fold member, Catherine Nicholls. Lit from below their white trunks shone theatrically through the dark night! I used marbled fabrics discovered at the Quilt Museum at La Conner together with my hand dyes. The piece has been free motion machine quilted and I’ve accentuated the effect of the feather motifs within the quilting by highlighting them with metallic, copper fabric paint. One edge of the quilt has been embellished with natural shell buttons secured with bright red thread to echo some of the colours of the marbled fabric.

£350 includes postage to the UK.

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And In His Dreams He Heard The Surf Roar

And In His Dreams He Heard The Surf Roar

28.5 inches wide x 35.5 inches long
73cm x 90cm

This quilt was inspired by Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea. (I always like to have a title before I can resolve the design of a quilt and this quote was perfect!) It features block printing of the traditional patchwork design, Storm at Sea, using acrylic paints. The blocks have been hand printed onto a digitally printed image I took of an ancient fishing boat I discovered languishing on a beach in Brittany, France. The colours of the many layers of peeling paint on the old wooden planks were inspirational and provided such a gorgeous background for the printing that followed. The text is an inkjet transfer onto painted fusible webbing, bonded to the surface of the fabric and then embellished with hand stitch. I have used both hand quilting and free motion machine quilting in this piece.

£350 includes postage to the UK.

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Fish Shoal

Fish shoal

31 inches x 24 inches
79 cm x 61 cm

This is a really quirky quilt featuring many of my favourite techniques. There’s monoprinting, lino block printing, discharge printing, strip patchwork, free motion quilting and fabric painting. The strange fish swim through a curtain of metallic gold fronds which I have free motion quilted and then hand painted. The quilt has a hidden sleeve ready for hanging – all you will need is a suitable batten.

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Paintbox 2

Paintbox 2

51 inches x 29 inches
130 cm x 74 cm

This is the second quilt I made inspired by my precious paintbox. I firstly painted the box using oil pastel with watercolour washes and then the painting was scanned and digitally printed onto cotton fabric using fibre reactive dyes. I rarely clean the mixing palette, preferring to let my favourite colours flow from one painting session to the next – my free motion machine quilting follows the contours of the stains and spills on the wood of the box as well as the patches of colour in the half pans and those left in the china mixing palette. It was a joyous piece to work on!

 

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Strips and Garlands Quilt

Strips and Garlands Quilt

20.5 inches x 20.5 inches
53 cm x 53 cm

This colourful little quilt features strip patchwork using hand dyed cotton fabrics with hand painted garlands of leaves and berries. It combines free motion and guided machine quilting with hand quilting at the corners. It would make an ideal centrepiece for a dining table or sideboard.

£150 includes postage

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Talisman 2

Talisman 2

25.5 inches x 28 inches
65 cm x 71 cm

This is the second in a series of Talisman quilts I made a few years ago. It was exhibited at Festival of Quilts at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham and has been in storage ever since – seems a pity to be hidden away! I wanted to evoke a  sense of a primitive protective spirit. The fabrics are discharged linen and cotton with silk details. The text was created using painted fusible webbing. The quilt features lots of both hand and machine stitching. The three little beaded and embellished pockets are devised to hold precious secrets!

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Talisman

Talisman

25 inches x 27.5 inches
64 cm x 70 cm

This is the first in a series of Talisman quilts I made a few years ago. I wanted to evoke a  sense of a primitive protective spirit. The fabrics are discharged linen and cotton with silk details. There is metallic copper fabric printing and lots of both hand and machine stitching. The two little embellished pockets are devised to hold precious secrets!

 

 

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Butterfly

Butterfly

26.5 inches x 18 inches
67.5 cm x 46 cm

This is a digital print of one of my sketchbook pages, superimposed with an enhanced photograph of a swallowtail butterfly. It was printed using fibre reactive dyes and the wings of the butterfly have been embellished with fabric painting. The piece is closely quilted with free motion machine quilting and there is beaded detail to one of the bound corners. It has a hidden sleeve ready for hanging on a rod or batten.

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Summer Sailboats

Summer Sailboats

15.5 inches x 24 inches
40cm x 61cm

This is a small quilt I made following a visit to Aberdovey in Wales. Like most coastal places, the weather changes constantly. It can be cloudy and grey but we were lucky.
I loved the way the sunlight caught on the cresting waves and how the water lapped onto the sandy beach with frothy ripples. Beautiful!
I’ve used a variety of fabrics in this piece – hand dyed cotton, indigo dyed velvet and linen, scrim and tulle. It’s all free motion machine quilted.

£110 includes postage

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