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My previous website compressed images much smaller than is now necessary, and so this section will be populated bit by bit.

Blue Moon and Rabbit

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September 2012.   About 22" square

Continues my exploration of layering sheers, bleaching out color and using the 'wrong' side of fabrics.  Some patchwork done by machine, but all applique is hand sewn.  Most of the blue fabrics came out of the indigo vat.

This quilt was inspired by dyeing under the catalpa tree in my backyard this summer, and seeing the very bold rabbits feeding in my and my neighbors' backyards.  There was, in fact, a blue moon, on August 31, 2012.

Cottons, silk, polyester.  At least four recycled garments show up here (including one kimono scrap).

Blog post about the quilt here.

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'Mistress of the North'

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This doll is associated with the direction North, as suggested by her wintry colors.  According to indigenous American lore, North is associated with Wisdom, the color White, and the Buffalo.  I imagine that she is looking inward to find her Wisdom.

She holds two keys & a skunk vertebra.  I knit her body out of grey mohair.  Her face is stamped, hand-tinted and slightly needle-sculpted.  Hair is satin cording and vintage floss.  Both her apron and sleeves are recycled garments. 

About 12" tall.
SOLD, March 2012

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'The Blonde'

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Collage-style quilt with vintage orange-print cotton, organza, silks, antique lace.  Machine and hand-quilted.  SOLD, December 2011.

Warm Sky Village

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Roughly 4' long, included linens, silks, and cottons.  Pieced.  Machine quilted.

Journal Quilt

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About 12" x 15"

This Journal Quilt features photo-transferred words and a self-portrait, as well as the sleeve of a shirt with NYC images on it, and a Spanish flash card (showing a ladder).

Hand and machine-quilted on a vintage rectangle of cotton lawn.

Beech Trees

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The size of a piece of paper, this quilt is a digitally altered
original photograph of some of the most beautiful trees
that I have ever seen.  They live in Brookline. Mass. 
Photo transferred onto cotton and machine quilted. 


'Passion House'

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About 3' x 4'

This mid-sized quilt was commissioned for a 60th birthday and reflects the recipient's passionate love of travel and decades-long commitment to community service around the globe.

Most of the quilt is pieced, with some chunks of fabric raw-edge appliqued. Fabrics include linen, silk, madras, Australian imports, batik, an African tie-dye, and quilting cottons. 

More commissioned quilts can be viewed in this flickr set:  Commissioned Pieces.

'Thai Honeymoon'

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_About 2' x 3'

This quilt was commissioned as a wedding gift for a couple who honeymooned in Thailand. The large arch suggests stained glass, while the large swirls of the batik (printed in nearby Indonesia) represent the ocean. The swirling leaves in the surround appeared both joyful and fertile to me.

Machine and hand-quilted.  Appliqued & pieced. 
Fabrics: silk, Indonesian sarong rayon, & African batik.

Boro Hut

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This Boro House is open-bottomed, so that it may be 'planted' in the garden. 

Sold, 2012.  $50.00

More pictures of the Hut available here.  Other Boro Huts and Felt Houses can be viewed in this flickr set - Felt Houses.



Felt House

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This Felt House features black satin loops that can be tied with a waxed linen cord.

Sold, 2012.  $45.00

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Poppy Quilts

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samples from a series

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Script Quilt

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Woven strips of muslin with words written on them, with applied gesso, couched thread, and machine and hand quilting.

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Liberty Collage

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4" x 6"

Booklet

Craft papers, photos of original collages and quilts, rubber stamping.
Stitched and glued.

The Cantor

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This is a SoulCollage card (5"x8"), made during a Facilitator Training session.

The Cantor is the one who opens to ritual, thereby expanding
the individual participants and binding the
community, simultaneously.

To see more of my SoulCollage cards, please visit
the SoulCollage Set on my flickr site.

Altar Cloths

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This piece was sold, but the Virgin Mary piece has not. 

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Boy Looking Down

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This quilt, still in progress, combines paper, a thread drawing of a boy, waxed linen, organza, phototransferred words, paint and gesso.

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Village Pillow

Thread Nude

Donation for 'Judy's Hope' fundraiser - a Boston-based charity devoted to funding research on ovarian cancer.
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