Inventory for Tobi Collage Etc.

Woof: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $405.00
Category: Textile Art & Fiber Art
I started “Woof!” with strips of fabric left over from my next-to-last piece, “Miaow!” and initially made a downward leading white path, placing several decorated dogs walking down it. It sat for a week or so until I realized that it was too small...

Moch Ness Monster: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $405.00
Category: Textile Art & Fiber Art
This collage was well on the way on the development stage, with the background, beach and green sea, but got totally sidetracked by the wrong foreground! I had put in a dock, with a boat tied on to it and had even sewn it in. However, it was so an...

Illuminations: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $425.00
Category: Textile Art & Fiber Art
This piece feels like it is the beginning a new phase. The original layout came through quickly, though completion took more time. Last August, we had a potluck supper at the fabric store where I work, and my husband Curt spotted a vibrantly color...

Miaow!: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $435.00
Category: Textile Art & Fiber Art
At the fabric store where I work, the owner brought in a box of rather small pieces of fabric. It included a number of pieces all designed by the same artist, with colors and elements that were shared in different fabric designs. this was instant ...

Meadow: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
The fabrics for the grassland and the sky called out to join together in this scene, with the three trees added as appropriate for variety. A few orange flowers and some taller weeds completed the general layout, and I added some contour lines ...

Camouflage: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $350.00
Category: Art
Camouflage began its creation some unknown time ago, but surfaced in its incomplete stage demanding to be finished! It has only four different fabrics, but in this case, it’s enough. Look carefully to see the hidden animal. Now my husband did ...

Landscape Red and Blue: Quilted Art wall hanging

Price: $405.00
Category: Art
When I sat down with my bag of fabrics, I found so many vibrant reds and blues that wanted to go together. This tree on a hill, with gingko leaves (though they only turn from green to yellow in the real world!) its blue textured tree trunk, a l...

One and One Half Butterflies: Quilted Art wall hanging

Price: $395.00
Category: Art
While the bright-leaved tree might be the centerpiece here, I thought that the butterflies might provide the better title. They came from a batik scrap, and it simply did not have two full butterflies in it, so I hid the missing part behind som...

The Rake's Progress: Quilted Art wall hanging

Price: $425.00
Category: Textile Art & Fiber Art
One thing I love to find and use are sets of fabric with the same patterns but different colors. In this case I found two such sets, one of maple leaves and the other of oak leaves — but the difference was only in the background; note that some of...

Crayon Fish in the Sea: Quilted Art wall hanging

Price: $385.00
Category: Art
The fish and plant fabrics here all happened to be in a box I used several years ago for a collage workshop, so that was my starting palette. I started originally with a solid light grey background, then swapped it out for the patterned piece, ...

Rainy Day: Quilted Art wall hanging

Price: $380.00
Category: Art
In Rainy Day, development began with the fabric for the sky. The pond in the front, the plants and the field, they are typical elements in my work, but I wanted to find a way to continue the fall of the raindrops into the whole picture. I scann...

Blue Trees by the Sea: Quilted Art wall hanging

Price: $345.00
Category: Art
This piece started with the blue fabrics coming together and the grey fabric I used as ocean waves. I used ink to die some of that fabric in shades of blue. Once it was all pieced together, I started my usual hand stitching it onto a piece of f...

Lemon Sky: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $365.00
Category: Art
Lemon Sky contains a bit of recognizable bamboo-like growth against an orange-red background and a bit of alien bushes, along with a tree in autumn colors, so with these oddities already in place, grabbing a bit of bright yellow for the sky and...

Forest Tapestry: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $375.00
Category: Art
Forest Tapestry began with the edge, which came from a bedspread printed in India. The edge was cut away from a circular pattern and the corners were thereafter scrap fabric, and that's what I often work with! And as often happens with me, a sm...

Garden of the Purple Tree: Quilted Art wall hanging

Price: $350.00
Category: Art
Garden of the Purple Tree: Another tree, another garden — favorite subjects of mine! Some of the circular designs of pieces in my fabric stash appealed to me for this piece, which includes pieces of silk which was not easy to work with, but they h...

Golden Tree at Night: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $370.00
Category: Art
In the last batch of Sweet Treats collections that I will get (the company that made these sets now being out of business), I found this striking pattern of gold leaves on black, and that became the focus of this piece. I believe both the silve...

Tiger: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $405.00
Category: Art
At one point the fabric store where I work has had several wild tiger print fabrics in the African wax print section, which inspired me to create this piece. I found a painting of a tiger staring out from a jungle tree which helped me get the s...

Cottage in the Garden: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $330.00
Category: Art
In making this piece, the cottage came first, with a sort-of brick-like fabric in turquoise and white, and a matching textured fabric for the roof. It is a tiny cottage, surrounded by flowers and flanked by a tree, and a pink sky whose color is...

Houndstooth Garden: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
When I received a set of coordinated fat quarters of fabrics incorporating the same houndstooth checkered patterns, they had to get used together, and the fact that one of the fabrics had flowers and gingko leaves with the blue houndsteeth (if ...

Lonely Trees: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
My mood when creating Lonely Trees was rather a subdued one, with the choices of browns and greys. Maybe it was the time of year, deep midwinter, chilly and grey. The ground is a metallic grey shot with silver, the tree trunks a herringbone tex...

Zebra: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $65.00
Category: Art
Zebra is my response to a challenge which specified an image from the animal kingdom, and immediately I hit upon doing a zebra. My original thought was to have the background half-white, half-black, but making the wide uneven stripes like a zeb...

Shrine: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $360.00
Category: Art
The challenge for inclusion in an art show was to create a piece of art to fit the theme "Sanctuary" which led my eye to a small piece of fabric with a scattering of glyphs that resembled primitive cave paintings. I combined two of them for my ...

On the Boardwalk: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $455.00
Category: Art
On the Boardwalk incorporates some fabric that has been looking for a home for a while! It began with the striped pieces which became the actual boardwalk, but all running the same direction, but it seemed to work better all going crosswise. Th...

Orange World: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $340.00
Category: Art
Orange World was inspired by a painting which included the elements of two trees, one living and one bare trunk, and a path next to a stream which disappeared before reaching a woods in the background, but painted in normal realistic colors. Th...

In the Treetops: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $445.00
Category: Art
In the Treetops is one of my larger pieces, yet only makes use of four fabrics. The leafy portions were from a shirt that I made recently for myself, the trunks are two different colorways of the same pattern, and then there is the plain tan co...

Dark Moon: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $430.00
Category: Art
A set of color-coordinated "fat quarters" (a quarter yard of fabric cut to 18 x 22 inches) inspired this piece. The starry sky fabric was an obvious choice, and similarly the stripey ocean-beach fabric, selectively cut for sand and for water. T...

Boats at the Dock: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $335.00
Category: Art
Here in a secluded bay, three small boats float in choppy waters. They wait, perhaps, for a calmer day to explore the waters beyond. A new experiment in technique in this piece is the use of layers of organza to create the mountains in the bac...

Whirl of Circles: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
Whirl of Circles started with the background and the black and white prints. I wanted the circles to be mostly on top, but allowed a few blocks of the background to overlap. The bit of orange fabric crept in around the biggest black circle, and...

The Phoenix: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $415.00
Category: Art
The Phoenix began from an image extracted out of a fat quarter which was part of a set of coordinated fabrics. While I rarely use such a large piece from a single piece of cloth, there was really little choice here; cutting into that magnificen...

Little Landscape: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $50.00
Category: Art
In one meeting of my quilt guild, we played a game involving small pieces of fabric, such as 2" squares and 2" strips, and everyone left with a small collection of them. Now when I get down to scraps like this, they generally get discarded as b...

Moon Garden: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $395.00
Category: Art
It may have been the grey sky flecked with silvery stars that started Moon Garden, along with the black-on-black that became the background. I used other black/white/gray fabrics for flowers and foliage, plus a couple muted greens, and then tin...

The Shack: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $445.00
Category: Art
Weathered looking grey wood just called out to be this small shack, abandoned for who knows how long, surrounded by woods in an autumnal glade. The interior is dark, filled with cobwebs — who knows what might be inside. The major problem that ...

Hawaiian Bouquet: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $425.00
Category: Art
My idea when starting my layout session was to go wild in combining fabrics. I started with a collection of floral scraps and then got the startling idea that a rocky landscape, placed sideways, would create a pleasing bowl for a bouquet. Durin...

Pink Parlor: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $350.00
Category: Art
A set of coordinated fabrics came together in this lady's parlor, and its formality seemed in demand a rectangular frame, contrary to my usual practice! While not obvious in this photo, the couch is stitched to include the dimples a real couch ...

Blowing in the Wind: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $430.00
Category: Art
For Blowing in the Wind, I wanted to incorporate part of my collection of tulle and other lacey fabric and layer it in to my collage. The ferny fronds were scraps from my Big Tree from 2008, and the brown piece with the five-petalled flowers we...

Green Landscape: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
Batik fabrics have often proved a challenge in making my art work, yet in Green Landscape, two pieces found themselves right at home; the background became a grassy field, and the tree grew an odd swirl of leaves. The green sky is not a batik, ...

The Well: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $315.00
Category: Art
A solitary well is a gateway between above and below, with a dark deep interior, hence the subject of tales where the princess loses her ball and a frog may retrieve it. What else may lurk in its depth? My palette for The Well went to the brow...

Ode to Roses: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $345.00
Category: Art
With my last two completed pieces being rather dark, Ode to Roses is a complete change of pace! This came about on the day I sat down to discover a plethora of rose and other floral fabrics in the bag I bring to the Open Guild Room art days. So...

Orchard: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $245.00
Category: Art
I like working with fabrics that use different colors with the same design for the same picture, "colorways" as they're called in fabric marketing. These colors also coincided with the latest Fast Friday challenge, on the theme of "ambience" or...

Lord of the Rings: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $330.00
Category: Art
The challenge for this piece was to create a new cover for my favorite book. It will come as no surprise to my friends that "The Lord of the Rings" is my favorite so it was my immediate choice for this challenge! My initial idea was to have jus...

Springtime: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $410.00
Category: Art
Springtime is a collage that was a long time in development, started in late winter and not completed until mid autumn. The main picture was not the obstacle, rather the clearing around the tree. I went at first for some fabric pieces that over...

Mountainside: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
Mountain scenes, with slopes receding in the distance, have inspired another piece here. The batiks with their similar zigzag patterns provided two of the slopes, and the other fabrics joined in as the furthest slope and as bushes or trees. The...

Golden Mountain: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $395.00
Category: Art
The two pieces that I began with were the orange mountain peak and the grey fabric with a similar pattern, and those colors called to the fabrics used for the rest of the picture, leaning heavily to the orange tones. With such dramatic colorati...

Ghost Ship: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $425.00
Category: Art
Ghost Ship was a work in progress for a long time. I had created the bay, with its framework of flowers and shrubbery, the beach, the water itself from a multi-colored fabric with its interesting texture, but it did not feel complete. What it s...

Aquatic Symmetries: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
Aquatic Symmetries is the final Fast Friday Fabric Challenge, #100, and its focus was to combine two or more of the previous 99 challenges which we had not previously done. I took the theme of "Under the Sea" from one challenge, and the techniq...

Between Sky and Sea: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $390.00
Category: Art
Between Sky and Sea uses some of my favorite fabrics that have long been in my stash, the red/orange grass, the mottled blue sky and the somewhat differently mottled sea. And as I cut and placed pieces, the other pieces fell into place, the sin...

Around the Curve: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
Around the curve in the road, who knows what you might find! If nothing else, it can be a good walk in the fresh air. This piece started with the mottled orangey-tan ground, with the orange leaves forming the tree on the right -- and both those...

Window with Flowers: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $370.00
Category: Art
From a set of five fat quarters which are different colorways of the same pattern, I finally got to use four of them! Normally I would cut leaves and flowers individually, going with the patterns on the fabrics, but for this project I folded an...

Flowers in the Window: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $345.00
Category: Art
My challenge here was to incorporate the irregular shapes of cubism, so I cut my pieces with less of an eye to the images in the fabric and more in just getting an odd but pleasing shape. I added the dark outlines to the pots as both a step awa...

Pathway Through Red: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $385.00
Category: Art
Pathway through Red started with a set of Oriental red fat quarters (a fat quarter is a quilter's cut of fabric, a piece cut from a half yard). The pattern of red blocks was a challenge to me, a less than organic shape with a rigidity that felt...

Sea and Sky: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $245.00
Category: Art
The challenge for this piece called for a predominance of blue, with black, white and one other color permitted. Since I had, a while ago, gathered some black and white fabrics, and I always have plenty of blues, I got a good start on this piec...

Greenery with Mirror: Art Quilt Wall Hanging

Price: $305.00
Category: Art
Often I have made pictures with leaves and trees around a path or clearing, but this time the clearing called out for a mirror to be framed by the vegetation, and the cane work fabric was a natural background. The whole of it then fit nicely in...

Purple Sunset: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $435.00
Category: Art
Purple! That was the challenge that inspired this piece, specifically, a friend's photo of a seaside sunset which caught my eye, and I set out to try to recreate that scene. I rearranged elements a bit, and put the sailboat closer to center ra...

Milady's Flowers: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $385.00
Category: Art
The fabrics in Milady's Flowers mostly came from a coordinated set of fat quarters, and the flowers arranged themselves into the red bowl showing how well they belonged together -- with the exception of a couple that fell while making the arran...

Flower Garden: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $305.00
Category: Art
Flower Garden developed from a challenge with had the theme "Word Play", and I chose words that relate to my love of gardening and my stash of leafy and flowering fabrics. I'm generally a vegetable gardener, but that was simply too many letters...

Snow and Crocuses: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $335.00
Category: Art
Snow and Crocuses is a fabric collage piece showing that eagerly awaited harbinger of spring, the first crocuses which pop up with snow still on the ground, their bright colors a sharp contrast to the earthy ground which is yet bare of other pl...

Z-Barcode: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $265.00
Category: Art
Z-Barcode came about as a result of a challenge to incorporate a bar code -- and The most natural thing I could think of incorporating a bar code was a zebra! I used two widths of black ribbon for the bar code, with a Micron pen to put in the ...

Girl on a Swing: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $550.00
Category: Art
Girl on a Swing was created for a challenge that called for use of new techniques, with a tree theme. I adapted a drawing technique I had learned as a child, drawing lines from the root to the tips of twigs, only using lines of sewing instead o...

October: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $355.00
Category: Art
Orange is a color I used to avoid, but for this piece, it called to me. The fabrics for the tree leaves and for the pumpkins seem to be created by the same artist, both having similar leaves on a black background, dotted and outlined with gold....

Leaves of Blue: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $340.00
Category: Art
The one fabric in Leaves of Blue that is new to my stash is that which contributed to the tree, and the rest of the picture coalesced around that. Those blue leaves came from the scraps left after making my husband a shirt, and incorporating th...

Swamp: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $370.00
Category: Art
Swamp was modeled after a painting done by my friend Carolyn Colby, a fellow member of the Framingham Artists Guild. Hers is a much quieter landscape, but for me, that pink/purple fabric had the flow that the meandering stream needed, and while...

Scarlet Serenity: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $340.00
Category: Art
Scarlet Serenity grew from four red patterned fabrics I received in a bundle of red fat quarters, plus some wild designs in 5" squares that I won last spring which were Kaffe Fasset patterns, plus the orangey-red leaf fabric which formed the tr...

Orange Garden, Yellow Sky: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $365.00
Category: Art
My orange fabrics are calling out to me more these days, it seems, and here they combine with a yellow sky and just a touch of greenery to surround a quiet pool. The darkest green in the lower right is a polyester-blend fabric that I bought on...

The Party Field from Bag End: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $445.00
Category: Art
The challenge for Party Field from Bag End called for inspiration from the first or last line from your favorite book. Well, for me, that could only be "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien, and the first line refers to the upcoming party f...

Outside Looking In: Artist at Work -- Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $375.00
Category: Art
This is not actually what my house looks like, nor my sewing room, but that is a photo of me at the sewing machine, pastiched into a room in a brick house. And on the wall is another piece of mine, "What the Cat Did!" This is part of a series o...

Child's vest with orange leaf collage

Price: $22.00
Category: Other Clothing, Shoes & Accessories
A child's vest with a pattern of orange leaves on a tan background, 100% cotton, totally washable. A cute little vest for an 8 to 12 year old.

Duck Pond: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $375.00
Category: Art
This more subdued piece started with the fabric for the trees, which had subtle areas of grey suggesting the tree tops without outlining them. I added the brown trunks, then the rest of the picture grew around the trees. However, I originally h...

Pink Roses: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $385.00
Category: Art
When I found a set of three fabrics which all had pink roses on different colored backgrounds, they spilled together into this overflowing bowl of beauty. And then there were the matching colors for the vase, table and wallpaper, and that is the...

Brown Vest with palm trees and stone wall - size 18

Price: $30.00
Category: Women's Clothing
Loosefitting vest with applique of a stone wall running around the bottom and palm trees on the front. Completely machine washable.

Batik Leaves Vest - women's size 8

Price: $25.00
Category: Women's Clothing
A simple handmade vest with applique of leaves and grapes in orange and green batik.

Bowl of Flowers: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $345.00
Category: Art
My inspiration forBowl of Flowersstarted with some artificial flowers in a squat bowl, and with the fabrics I had on hand, morphed into this rather full floral display. The background fabrics nicely pull out some of the colors in the flowers. ...

Blue Vest with swimming dogs - size 12

Price: $30.00
Category: Women's Clothing
A simple blue vest with appliques of lakesidescenes of dogs playing in and near the water. Made of 100 cotton, washable. The vest uses my raw edge applique method with a decorative stitch. Women's Size 12

Canyon River: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $335.00
Category: Art
A selection of dark browns and the green viney fabric built themselves into the cliffs, with a river running through its depths. The sky is a single fabric that suggested early morning to me. And overlaying the sky and the river, binding them ...

Lupus in Loopiland: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $195.00
Category: Art
Spaceship FFFC has just landed on Planet Loopiland and you’re discovering just how loopy this new world is. Readings indicate the entire planet is covered by water with the only hints of a molten planet interior the monolithic stone loop and pl...

Girl in a Big Hat: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $335.00
Category: Art
One day I found myself without inspiration, and pulled a book at random with the goal to find something to wake up my artistic muse. What I chose was a book on the art of Mary Cassatt, and I mentally groaned when I found that all she did was p...

Tree and Stream: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $345.00
Category: Art
Another scene that combines a tree and a stream, this time flowing down from the upper left. The fabric for the leaves being such a uniform color, I added a bit more contrast by turning over a couple of the pieces and using the back side. Angel...

Amber World: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $355.00
Category: Art
An "open painting" session at the Framingham Artists Guild room found me with a bag of fabrics in these subdued orange and yellow shades, and they came together in this unearthly landscape that I call "Amber World." And while it may seem odd to...

Dark Stream: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $395.00
Category: Art
This month was a productive one for me, and somehow I had totally overlooked putting this piece up here for over a year but I had signed and dated it, and actually photographed it only a couple months after it was made, and now that it has em...

Purple Tree: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
It was time to dive into my purple fabrics for this piece! Both the sky and the tree come from scraps from shirts that I made for my husband this spring, with Angelina Fiber enhancing the skyscape. My artwork is mounted on foam core, which cre...

Night Vision: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $225.00
Category: Art
Night Vision was my response to a challenge with the theme The Eyes Have It Setting out to do this challenge, I looked up drawing an eye in a how to book for the basic shape. The original picture was in pencil, so there was only dark versus li...

Garden in Orange: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $390.00
Category: Art
This year, my quilt guild, Marathon Quilters, put out a challenge to pick a crayon, and use that color along with black and white, for a quilt. My color was orange, and I knew that I wanted to avoid a Halloween scene. I filled my bag with a var...

Pouring T: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $275.00
Category: Art
Pouring T was my answer to a challenge to choose a letter and illustrate it in the "A is for Apple" style - but not necessarily a commonly thought of image. I chose to go with a black kettle literally pouring a stream of letters. My original th...

Blue Water Lilies: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $405.00
Category: Art
The fabrics in Blue Water Lilies, except for the sky, came from a single Sweet Treats packet of fat quarters from the Pincushion Boutique. I have always loved blue, and the lilies are just a wonderful rich blue that called out to me. Another p...

Orange Tree: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
I love trees, and maybe could fill a gallery with work inspired by trees! As here, in Orange Tree, it is not necessary that the trees be realistic, just that they be fun. The swirly orange fabric gives texture to the tree's foliage, and the ora...

Stone Lantern: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $400.00
Category: Art
All the floral fabrics called out to me and arranged themselves on a backdrop of a dark pink print surrounding a clearing which had a glowing center which transitioned into pink, and was laced with lines of gold. Then, taking its cue from the f...

Night Time Window: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $335.00
Category: Art
The inspiration for Night Time Window was a challenge entitled Open the Doors of Perception, plus fabric that simply called out I'm wallpaper This is a threedimensional piece, with the curtains coming out from the background and the little tab...

Seascape: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $405.00
Category: Art
Seascape began with three pieces of fabric with branching coral shapes that I picked up at a small quilt shop in Berkeley, CA, and here I finally got around to using all three (though I did use the blue coral in Three and Seven).The green leafy...

Three and Seven: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $275.00
Category: Art
Three and Seven came about through a challenge based on auspicious numbers. I could not settle on a single auspicious number, so I chose the month and day of my birthday, and made those the central elements. The idea of special numbers seemed t...

Sunflowers Outdoors: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $245.00
Category: Art
Sunflowers Outdoors was the result of a challenge that asked for a style choice from art history to create a quilt featuring flowers and it was the flowers of Emil Nolde that got me started, using Tsukineko inks and painting directly on a piece...

Butterflies Ascending: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $345.00
Category: Art
A collage of home decor fabrics and commercial prints come together to create a joyous scene of butterflies flying free. As with most of my art work, the shape of Butterflies Ascending is free-form, dictated by the art in an organic manner. Si...

What the Cat Did!: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $365.00
Category: Art
What the Cat Did! developed in a long-drawn-out process. The idea was first of a room with a fireplace, and I experimented with this swirly red-pink-white fabric, and with some orange and white material. The fireplace came from scraps from a sh...

Country Brook: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $280.00
Category: Art
I think it was the quirky blue fabric that started me putting Country Brook together, and that pulled in some other odd pieces for the somewhat abstract foliage. I used the edging of a silvery weave fabric and a fringe from another to give text...

Fish Tank: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $375.00
Category: Textile Art & Fiber Art
I thought to revisit the satin with batting technique that I used in the Satin Flower, but with different colors of satin. The background is light blue and white satin sewn with waves, then layered with batting. Thread-painting, with some of the f...

Early Spring: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $390.00
Category: Art
Early Spring may have started at that time of year, but stayed around in an unfinished state for quite some months! It was not until November that I decided what it needed. It was altogether too pale, and the application of some diluted green i...

Cameo: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $310.00
Category: Art
Cameo grew from a picture I found and brought into Photoshop to enhance with color and print onto transfer paper. As I was arranging the floral border, I thought that what I needed as a background was shiny gold satin, and I dashed off to Fabri...

Funky blue hand knit mittens

Price: $12.00
Category: Men's Accessories
Crazy funky yarn with loose ends and navy eyelashes form the back of these cozy mittens. Made of acrylic yarn so they are machine washable. Size: child 1011, length 8

Garden Crosswalk: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $305.00
Category: Art
Garden Crosswalk started with a photo that I took in Hamilton Gardens in New Zealand, standing under a trellis structure built over an intersection of walkways. I planned to put that structure in last, and found that I could not get that effect...

Child's Light Blue Hand Knit Mittens

Price: $11.00
Category: Men's Accessories
Both the mitten backs and the cuffs have cables in these cozy blue mittens. Child size 8 length 8 Made of acrylic yarn so it is machine washable

Cityscape on the River: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
Cityscape on the River is really a touchy-feely kind of piece as the main fabric I used is an Oriental flocked fabric that I picked up a couple years ago. The buttons stand out much more in this photo because of the lighting than they ordinaril...

A Neighborhood of Zucchini: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $305.00
Category: Art
As most vegetable gardeners know, if you have zucchinis in your garden, you end up with more than enough to share with the neighborhood, so here is A Neighborhood of Zucchini, with the repetition of leaf shape as well as the squash and the flow...

The Lamp Post: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $385.00
Category: Art
The Lamp Post arose from a challenge to use elements of chiaroscuro, with a point source of light. The basic image for this came together quickly, but implementing it was where I spent more time! I generally start with a piece of muslin to put ...

Pink hand knit neck wrap/hat

Price: $18.00
Category: Men's Accessories
Not a scarf, better than a scarf It's a Moebius strip scarf, a circle with a half twist that adds a fold to keep the front of your neck doubly warm. Or wear it as a hat to cover your ears. One size fits all. Made of acrylic yarn so it is...

Flow: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $385.00
Category: Art
I began Flow with a set of fabric samples all having the same type of watery flowing pattern, in green, blue-green, blue and tan, and some of these also had a scattering of water lilies. So I let them all flow together, matching the water lilie...

Woodland Stream: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $385.00
Category: Art
While I began Woodland Stream with the various woodsy pieces, the scrap of almost glowing blue water came to my hands and made itself at home in the lower center, then attracted the bit of rocky material for its edge, and the ferns placed thems...

Three Trees: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $345.00
Category: Art
Three Trees began as two trees and the path, with a great deal of experimentation as to which green fabrics to use for the ground on either side. The bench seemed a natural thing to make out of cloth that looked like wood flooring, with a bit o...

Terpsichore: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $305.00
Category: Art
The challenge for Terpsichore called for the expression of a mood through color. The colorful striped fabric started me out; I folded it so that the colors radiated out for the dress. The gold fabric entered into the picture just for the body, ...

Octopus's Garden: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $355.00
Category: Art
The challenge for Octopus's Garden was 1) the use of collage as a technique - easy since that is my general mode of operation, and 2) as a theme, a song from the Beatles. I first thought of doing Maxwell's Silver Hammer - but I don't like the i...

Fruit and Flowers: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $350.00
Category: Art
At a spring meeting of the Framingham Artists Guild, members brought in vases and flowers along with their preferred art medium and we all worked at depicting the floral arrangements. And with my bag of fabric scraps, I created this still life ...

Down the Garden Path: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $350.00
Category: Art
My selection of fabrics for Down the Garden Path leaned heavily toward the pinks with many florals complementing the textured background material. I scattered some beads on the wall and the arch, then put a few pink stone beads along the path. ...

Sunrise Seagull: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $425.00
Category: Art
Sunrise always seems a time of optimism, if you are awake enough to enjoy it! And optimism is the theme word for this challenge for Sunrise Seagull, along with the use of metallic tones. I had picked up the material for the tree fairly recently...

Fish Tank: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $415.00
Category: Art
For Fish Tank, I thought to revisit the satin with batting technique that I had used earlier, but this time using different colors of satin. The background is light blue and white satin sewn with waves, then layered with batting. Thread-paintin...

Deep in the Woods: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $425.00
Category: Art
One winter I was going through my fabric stash, sorting it by color. I have a preponderance of greens, so I began pulling out the ones that spoke to me, along with just a bit of wood and stone patterns, and this is the result. I used some of my...

Winter from the Window: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $340.00
Category: Art
The challenge for View from the Window was one that I hosted, with the theme "Whether the Weather is Wetter or Whiter" and although I had written the challenge myself, this piece had in no way been planned beforehand, yet worked up very rapidly...

Blue and Multi-color Fuzzy Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
This beanie hat goes from turquoise blue to green to light purple and has rounds of fun fuzzy turquoise eyelash yarn.

Blue Crochet Beanie Hat with white dangles

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
Vibrant blues combine with white and a ribbon-y funky yarn for a fun beanie hat.

Fuzzy Turquoise Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
With subtle shading of turquoise and blue, this hat is circled with fringes of eyelash yarn with a bit of a glisten as a crowning touch. Size: child or small adult

White Crochet Beanie Hat with Green Trim

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
Fun Fur of green and just a bit of blue perk up this white beanie hat edged with pixie points. Size: child to adult

Fuzzy Orange Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
Bright orange beanie hat with bits of green and pink, highlighted with those colors in eyelash yarn fringe. Size: Child

Purple Fuzzy Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
Light purple eyelash yarn spices up a royal purple beanie hat. Great accessory to spark up your outfit!

Orange and White Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
A bit of golden glitter and bits of purple and pink create a bright beanie hat.

Lavender and multicolor Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
A pale lavender cotton yarn with touches of lime green, turquoise and purple is highlighted with pinkish purple sparkly pixie points.

Pink Crochet Beanie Hat with touch of green

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
A bright pink beanie with rings of fancier yarn of green and white and just a bit of eyelash yarn fibers. Size: child or adult

Pink Pixie Points Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
A funky kind of yarn adds points of color as well as softness to this bright pink beanie hat. Matching wristlet is included.

Blue Crochet Beanie Hat with Green Eyelash Fringe

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
Green eyelash yarn blends with turquoise blue yarn to make a delightful beanie hat.

Yellow Pixie Points Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
Bright yellow eyelash yarn highlights this bright topper, with white and multi-color yarn forming the body.

Multicolor Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
A bevy of colors, blue, yellow, and pink, with a wild white fringe of sparkly white eyelash yarn. Size: adult

Greeny Beanie: Fuzzy Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $15.00
Category: Girls
A pearly-green beanie hat with touches of yellow, accented by fuzzy eyelash yarn. Size: Adult small

Bright Pink Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $11.80
Category: Men's Accessories
A pinky pink beanie hat with eyelash yarn accents in red, white and blue. Size: child medium

Turquoise Crochet Beanie Hat

Price: $15.00
Category: Girls
A bright turquoise beanie highlighted with yellow and red, made with cotton and novelty yarns.

Blue Ivy: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $355.00
Category: Art
Blue Ivy continues my series of "Outside Looking In" with more of a focus this time on the outside. I was delighted to find that I had about the same blue tones in the brick fabric and the leaves. The inside of the room took a bit longer to de...

Gestalt Leaves: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $335.00
Category: Art
The challenge for Gestalt Leaves was to use the principles of gestalt design, and among those, I chose the principles of similarity versus differences, and proximity, to create a trio of plants. I used reverse applique, with the base fabric bei...

Flowers in the Stream: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $315.00
Category: Art
Flowers in the Stream is largely made of batik fabrics in the blue, blue-green to green range. The background is a brown-speckled cloth, with a verge of grass on the farther shore. I used a foil technique to highlight some of the floral pieces....

Sunrise at the Dock: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $305.00
Category: Art
Sunrise at the Dock is my response to a challenge to use light and subtle color in the manner of J.M.W. Turner, a 19th century romantic painter who frequently did seascapes, and often centered his work around the sun or moon. When looking at Tu...

Sunflowers: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $225.00
Category: Art
At a recent session of creating with some painter friends, one of them set up a vase with artificial sunflowers as a still life. Looking through my stash, I found some suitably orange/yellow material, and opted to also do a still life myself, a...

Blue Hand Knit Handbag

Price: $33.00
Category: Women
A light blue knit handbag with a long adjustable strap has two inner pockets to hold keys or credit cards. It is lined with matching blue cotton with a tracery of gold, also seen on the ends on the outside. Eyelash yarn adds a fun furry texture ...

Brown hand knit handbag with inner pockets and strap

Price: $32.00
Category: Women
This unique handbag, made of acrylic yarn, has a sturdy lining of goldveined brown cotton, three interior pockets to keep you organized, and a long strap with pearly beads running through it, all held closed with a flamboyant peacock button. Nov...

Sparkly purple hand knit handbag

Price: $33.00
Category: Women
This spacious bag has three small interior pockets and an adjustable shoulder strap threaded with beads. It is lined with goldveined purple cotton that shows on the ends outside. A sparkly polyester yarn adds glitter to a oneofakind accessory. ...

Tan hand knit handbag with inner pockets and strap

Price: $31.00
Category: Women
A gowithanything handbag with cotton lining, one large and three small interior pockets. The outside is highlighted by short eyelash yarn, and a button to close the flap.

Funky blue hand knit handbag with silver butterfly

Price: $28.00
Category: Women
A light turquoiseblue handbag with a novelty yarn embellishment adding white and just a bit of yellow is graced by a silver butterfly. Its adjustable shoulder strap is interlaced with a string of pearly beads. Cotton lining has a creditcard size...

My Silk Scarf Wants to be a Garden Fence: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $435.00
Category: Art
I finally decided to make use of one of the silk scarves my youngest son brought me from India, cutting the borders for my main vertical lines. The two blue fabrics had practically the same orange color in their patterns so they seemed to fit i...

Essence of Ballet: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $295.00
Category: Art
The challenge for Essence of Ballet called for dance and movement. My first thought was to use various pieces of tulle and organza for ballet tutus, but the bag of plastic mesh pieces which I have been collecting for a while called out louder! ...

Brown Seascape: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $350.00
Category: Art
The brown fabrics seemed to call to me for Brown Seascape, with just a touch of yellow and a smaller touch of green. I auditioned several different fabrics for a sky, but none of them felt right. Perhaps the piece is telling me that from the sh...

Flamboyant Flowers: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
Flamboyant Flowers came together in an open "painting" session at the Framingham Artists Guild room when the flowers seemed to jump out at me, with bits of greenery getting tucked in around the edges to even things out. The blue and yellow butt...

Flowers in Blue: Abstract Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $305.00
Category: Art
Flowers in Blue was the result of a challenge to use analogous colors, that is, shades next to each other on a color wheel, with the added piece to create a sense of tension or energy. This had me thinking at first that warm/hot colors were cal...

Brick House: Framed Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $285.00
Category: Art
The Brick House is built from a shirt that my husband wears now, with brown corduroy for the roof. It was made at the point where I finally decided to buy the "fat quarters" now offered for quilters, when I see interesting fabrics, since we rea...

Fairy in the Fen: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $295.00
Category: Art
Fairy in the Fen had its start in the summer of 2008 at the Arts in the Green booth in Framingham, MA, as part of the community Concert on the Green. I was the artist-demonstrator, and had this mostly pieced together but only partially sewn. Th...

Flowing Brook: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $295.00
Category: Art
Flowing Brook, one of my early pieces, contains fabric scraps from nine shirts, six of mine, two that I made for my husband, and one for a friend! I give credit to my manager at work for the idea to hang this from a rod rather than framing it. ...

Moonlit Mountain Pool: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $410.00
Category: Art
Moonlit Mountain Pool is an attempt to create a scene with reflection in water. Fabric patterns seldom are helpful with providing a piece that could be used as a mirror image in a reflection, so here I used Angelina fiber, in the sky for moon a...

Still Life with Flowers: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $230.00
Category: Art
Still Life with Flowers resulted from challenge to create a still life using techniques to show dimension. I tried using the shape of the piece as if the bowl of flowers were sitting on a table at a corner of a room and a hall going back, and i...

Fire and Ice: Yin-Yang Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $320.00
Category: Art
Fire and Ice grew from a challenge to focus on either fire or ice. Since I could not decide on either one, I combined them in a Yin/Yang mandala. The fire side is a gold satin, and the ice a metallic silver weave. I used Angelina fiber, cutting...

Fleur de Lis: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $395.00
Category: Art
Fleur de Lis was my response to a "Flower Power" competition, where the main qualification for entry was the use of a summer flower. My choice was the lily, on a background which is the French chevron called Fleur de Lis, meaning lily. This is ...

Waterfall: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $390.00
Category: Art
The challenge for Waterfall was to incorporate something not usually used in quilted art that could be purchased for under five dollars; the subject for this piece was determined as soon as I saw the 4.99 bag of "decorative shred" at A.C. Moore...

Happy Dance: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $435.00
Category: Art
My only problem with including people is drawing them, so for Happy Dance, I cut out some folded paper kids, scanned them into Photoshop and then did some tricks to change their sizes. The printout from that became my template for the children....

Quiet Pond: Quilted Art Wall Hanging, Oriental fabrics

Price: $465.00
Category: Art
A selection of Japanese prints led to the making of Quiet Pond. The two fabrics with the gold swirls looked like variations on the same pattern, though the swirls did not fit together. They did, however, suggest water, with the speckled pattern...

Mountain Pass: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $385.00
Category: Art
Moutain Pass was my response to a challenge to create a work in the style of the masters of the art world. Quite a large list was provided, but I found my inspiration in the works of John Robert Cozens, 1752 - 1797, of the English Landscape Sch...

High Water Mark: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $435.00
Category: Art
High Water Mark began with the use of Tsukineko inks and a shaving cream marbling technique to make the uneven blue, brown and green sections, then I used beads to hold an irregular bunching pattern for the waves, pebble beads for the beach, an...

Beach at Sunrise: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $435.00
Category: Art
Beach at Sunrise came from a challenge on translucency, plus horizontal layering. I began by pulling out all my gauzier fabrics and a bag of plastic mesh from food packaging, and layered everything on a yellow background until something clicked...

Batik Pond: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $185.00
Category: Art
Batik Pond is an experiment with various batik fabrics in a general blue to blue-green-turquoise color scheme (although one little bit of non-batik fabric snuck in to the center of it). A few beads are scattered around, with a bit of sparkle ad...

Batik Flora: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $210.00
Category: Art
Batic Flora is part of my study of batiks. I was aiming for contrast, and found fabrics using pale blue, green and orange, with a border of brown and orange. The shapes are outlined using another pale blue. My artwork is mounted on foam core, ...

The Slide: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $295.00
Category: Art
The Slide comes from a childhood memory from a time when my mother worked for a private school and I attended preschool there. I was waiting for her out by myself in the playground, and climbed to the top of the big kids slide - and then was af...

The Last Leaf: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $245.00
Category: Art
Since my usual commercial fabrics didn't seem to suit my idea for Last Leaf, I used pieces from a home dec fabric sample book, having bought several when my favorite fabric store was going out of business. One set in particular had mostly solid...

Good Harvest: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $390.00
Category: Art
Good Harvest began with a new stack of vegetable-print fabrics. A piece of rough burlap became a bowl rimmed with fancy cord. With all this lettuce, corn, peppers and other vegetables, you could set a good table! This collage won the "Art of t...

Orange House: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $270.00
Category: Art
Orange House developed from a challenge based on architecture, with use of perspective, not a subject that I immediately warmed to, but I tried to use the vanishing point technique to show the rows of bricks diminishing from the front right cor...

Purple Pooch: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $255.00
Category: Art
Purple Pooch started out with a lavender background, then I played with some scraps of lilacs before coming across the purple/yellow hydrangeas, and the piece used just about every scrap of that fabric that I had. For a while I had a lovely cir...

Leaving Home: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $370.00
Category: Art
Leaving Home grew from a challenge to show a scene from Space, using embellishments, and the black satin just called out to me for the background. The only other fabric that I used in this piece was a piece of polyester, bought in Jordan, scrap...

The Lighthouse: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $385.00
Category: Art
The inspiration for The Lighthouse came on a visit to Star Island, where we looked out over the sea to a lighthouse that seemed to float on the water, but it was a couple years later before I began work on it, because I had not gotten a photo o...

Contemplative Blue: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $305.00
Category: Art
At times I take a bag of miscellaneous fabric pieces and gone to the Framingham Artists Guild room on Wednesdays when the guild room is opened for those wanting to come create art. For me, it is like creating with a limited palette, and it has ...

Brenda's Pond: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $380.00
Category: Art
Once on vacation in North Carolina, I picked up a bit of fabric at a local store, one piece about a yard in length of a multi-colored batik, and a fat bag of less than fat-quarter-size remnants. The next day, a quiet one with no outings schedul...

Satin Flower: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $355.00
Category: Art
The challenge for Satin Flower was to create a work based on a single fabric; I chose the gray satin which I have in unexplained quantity in my stash. I used several layers of high loft batting and created the leaf shapes and stem with thread p...

River in Autumn: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $420.00
Category: Art
River in Autumn grew from a challenge included the use of an "S" curve and split-complementary colors, that is, a main color plus the two colors on each side of its complementary color. In this case, I chose blue, red-orange and yellow-orange. ...

Yellow Road: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $410.00
Category: Art
This was my false start to a challenge to use split-complementary colors, that is, a main color plus the two colors on each side of its complementary color; the green should have been blue to do this right (see River in Autumn, with the correct...

Jungle Leaves: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $240.00
Category: Art
The inspiration for Jungle Leaves came during a hike through jungle in Belize, while looking for monkeys. Our guide pointed out various plants to us, one of which he compared to Velcro because it would stick on fabric. I ended up sticking a lea...

Pumpkin Patch: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $380.00
Category: Art
Pumpkin Patch uses a triadic color scheme, three colors evenly spaced around the color wheel. As I started this, I pulled out some greens and oranges, and found them used together in a few different pieces, most prominently in a piece with brig...

Overflow of Trees and Butterflies: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $465.00
Category: Art
Overflow of Trees and Butterflies started off with a challenge to take a traditional quilt pattern and go wild with it -- and it is so far off from the log cabin pattern that traditional quilters don't recognize it! As with some of these chall...

White Tulle Flowers: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $320.00
Category: Art
A fellow quilt artist gave me some pieces of tulle, and this piece of white tulle with silver sparkles intrigued me. I cut seven circles for each flower (one for the center), plus a bit for the bud, and sewed them onto the background, using som...

Green Grow the Rushes, O!: Quilted Art Wall Hanging in greens

Price: $435.00
Category: Art
The goal I had for this piece was to produce a work based on a song with a color in its title using a basically monochrome palette. I originally wanted to focus on blue, but didn't get a song title that inspired me! However, my fabric stash is ...

Colorful Chaos: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $315.00
Category: Art
Colorful Chaos emerged from a challenge to create a piece that gives a sense of motion, using embellishment to help. I started off by going wild with the shape, then machine appliquéing a couple pieces with plenty of motion of their own. Then I...

Alien Garden: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $410.00
Category: Art
Alien Garden emerged from a challenge to take a garden scene and make it abstract. Since I have frequently made garden scenes, my idea for this garden was to go wild and avoid using any fabric image as a literal object, no actual flowers as flo...

Aquatic Garden: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $405.00
Category: Art
Aquatic Garden started with a bag of fabric scraps when I was an art demonstrator for the Framingham Artists Guild, and this is what I made of them! The background is one piece, and the circular motifs from similar black and white pieces fit in...

Once . . . : Quilted Art Wall Hanging in blues

Price: $355.00
Category: Art
I've had in mind to do a blue monochrome piece for a while, but the last time, it came out green! My original thought was to have a sunrise, but my husband called it a moonrise, and actually pulled out the blue piece that I used for the sky, it...

Spring is in the Air: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $295.00
Category: Art
Spring is the season which seems to take forever to get here, and then is over too soon! The challenge was to use a "found" item, and mine was a spring torn from an old school notebook and touched up with some green paint - hence the title, Spr...

Song of Circles: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $375.00
Category: Art
Song of Circles grew from a challenge focused on radial symmetry, and I decided to create elements with more-or-less radial symmetry instead of an entirely symmetrical piece. With each fabric, I cut either six identical pieces, as far as the pa...

Bookshelf: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $325.00
Category: Art
I started Bookshelf in hopes of having it ready for an art show of my work at Annie's Bookstop in Framingham, MA, but after an initial push, realized I wouldn't make that time table. The books are made from home decorating fabrics, with a cordu...

Elegy for a Tree: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $365.00
Category: Art
The center focus out our back picture window had long been a tall birch tree. As spring blossomed last year, it was obvious from the pieces of branches on the ground, the lack of twigs, and most of all, the fungus growing on its trunks, that it...

Tulips in Bloom: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $205.00
Category: Art
Tulips in Bloom began with the purchase of a small pot of tulips in early March, while winter was still very much here, but when we longed for spring. A textured brown made a good background, and a soft flannel in green made pretty leaves. It w...

Moon Shadow: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $395.00
Category: Art
Moon Shadow grew from a dotted material that shades from navy blue to dark pink, to create a striking background for a night time scene. The moon, made of Angelina fiber, shines on a man walking along a path, casting a dark shadow. Is this the ...

Flowers in Black Vase: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $340.00
Category: Art
Flowers in Black Vase seemingly made itself in a single creative session. I had received a set of color-coordinated fat quarters which I get periodically from Pincushion Boutique, and though they did not appeal to me particularly when they firs...

Autumn Path: Quilted Art Wall Hanging

Price: $340.00
Category: Art
Autumn Path began with the three trees in warm red, orange and yellow tones, and they called out for a yellow background, a path leading through them, and a rock in the space to the right. That rock was originally in a rather contrasting light ...