Quilts

  This was my very first attempt a beading on fabric which was started in a Nancy Eha class. I was soon obsessed and spent many hours continuing this habit. Arthritic hands have slowed me down but now I still love the textural element of beads [...]

Designed to reflect the movement and colour of the ocean Layered hand dyed cotton and silk organza heavily embellished with hand stitched beads. 2009 Quilt Size - 100cm x 100cm (40" x 40") Price - $1000 For more information or to purchase this quilt, [...]

I wanted to think about all the shades of green I could and made a piece of felt using the wet felt method and then embellished it with leaves and the names of different shades of green. Then the vines started growing on the piece and leaves [...]

  This quilt was made for the Exhibition - Beneath the Southern Sky It is a collage piece of hand dyed and printed fabrics relating to the Australian desert colours. The overlay design is a verse from the original song - Ive Been Everywhere Man by Geoff Mack [...]

  This quilt was made from recycled kimonos purchased in Kyoto. The stamps and motifs were inspired also by Japanese elements. The overlay design is the Japanese symbol for love. Quilt Size - 100cm x 105cm (40" x 42") In Private Collection 2014 For [...]

Everywhere I go - quilters are working on hexagons. I just needed to see what the fuss is all about. These were made with my own hand dyed and painted fabrics . Hexagons are 1" hand stitched and machine quilted 2016 Quilt Size - 18cm x 25cm (7" x 10") Price [...]

  Quilt was started while I was teaching in the beautiful Italian village of Orvieto. All the fabrics in this quilt were created from white fabric using a variety of surface design techniques such as dyeing, painting, rubbing, stamping and foiling. The overlay design was a semicircular wrought iron frame [...]

This quilt originally was designed to be a random placement of fabrics. It has one simple block design in two sizes.  When it was finished it lacked something. A random piece of orange hand dyed fabric jumped out and 'demanded' to be added to the quilt so pieces were cut out and [...]

Quilt inspired by the beauty of Anton Gaudi's Casa Battlo building in Barcelona. The corridor in the attic has beautiful lines and draws you in to following the path A photo was manipulated to create a monochromatic colour scheme of 9 shades of blue. The tile design of Gaudi's [...]

  This quilt was one of my first to use multiple fabric textures. Only purples and green fabrics were used but a wide variety of fabric types including silk, cotton , linen, rayon, hessian and many others. Simple layout design and machine quilted with metallic thread in an organic design by [...]