Stained Glass Window Quilt

I made this quilt as a gift from our church (the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos) to our partner church in Fenyokut, Romania, on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Unitarianism, and religious freedom, in Transylvania. I haven’t gotten a final picture of it as I finished the binding late at night in a hotel room in Denver, pre-flight, and presented the quilt to the congregation at an evening event where the light just wasn’t sufficient. Hopefully I’ll soon be able to update this post with a final picture of the quilt hanging in the Fenyokut church. Continue reading

Nebula Baby Quilt

A lovely singer friend of mine who happens to also be a member of the ChemCam team on the Mars Rover project is having a baby next month, so of course I had to make her a space-themed quilt!

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Flower Girl Dress

This dress was completed for my daughter, Nora, to wear in her uncle’s wedding in June, 2008.

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Silk dupioni flower girl dress, from the Pascal pattern printed in the Issue 114 – September/October 2007 of Sew Beautiful magazine, with hand embroidery and beading, modeled by the lovely Nora.

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Fabric Postcards

These fabric postcards were offered for sale at the Fuller Lodge Art Center in 2008. The text below was written just before they were successfully juried.

Fabric postcards can be mailed in clear envelopes with first-class postage.

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Origami crane fabric postcard, all cotton, backed with watercolor paper and finished with Terry Grant’s edge technique

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