Landscape in progress

This is a work in progress that I am just getting around to finishing. It was started in a class taught by Sharon Malec at the 2007 Badland Quilters Guild Retreat held in Dickinson, ND.

Crazy Quilt block

I am working with one of the larger advertising lady prints that I hand tinted. The block is strip pieced and embellished with machine stitches. I am planning on some silk ribbon embroidery and perhaps some beading as well.

Pendants

I have been working on a few new pendant designs....

Mermaid tails

A quilting friend saw some of my beads and thought they looked like mermaid tails and asked if I could create a few just for her.....

Beaded Crazy Quilt

Last fall while up visiting my daughter, Amy and her family, I joined in on the bead embroidery class she was teaching at the Bismarck Quiltfest. I am still putting on the finishing touches. The block is construced with all silk fabric and it is loaded with beads...

More finished necklaces...

Some days when creativity hits it is oh so good...

Porcelain Faces

I have been experimenting with various porcelain faces, paint in the details, leaving white and various glazes.
I don't have these up on Etsy quite yet, but if you are interested in either face let me know. They are $10 each plus $2 for shipping.

Latest Quilts

Here are two quilts I recently finished up. The one on the right was from a Debbie Bowles class on a pieced border technique. The quilt on the left started out as an art quilt group challenge


You begin with striped pieced background and then cut out circles and move them around. I took it a step further with free motion embroidery around each circle and used some of the built in embroidery stitches from my machine.

I also added bits of Angelina as well as beads to balance out the design and add a bit of shine.

Lastest Work

I have been experimenting with a few new porcelain pendants and creating some finished necklaces

Porcelain Jewelry

I have been creating my own jewelry for years. And a few years ago I combined my love of jewelry making with my knowledge of porcelain (from years of making dolls) and started creating my own beads and pendants to fit my jewelry style.



This porcelain pendant is further embellished with wire strung seed beads, twisted into flowers and leaves.

This pendant has bits of fused glass...

Sorry for the fuzzy photo, but this shows how to use the Porcelain Pouch Pendants that I have for sale in my Etsy Shop.

The Pouch is filled with beaded wire twisted into flowers.

Postcard

This is the postcard that I made for the Art-2 Mail swap. Again I used the hot glue for the main embellishment.

Daughter's handsome cat "Borus".

Too cute!!!

ATC

This is an ATC that I made for my daughter's birthday. The embellishment was made with hot glue.

Beaded Crazy Quilt Postcard

Beaded Crazy Quilt postcard