Old Projects become New Projects

This house quilt is from 2021 and it never got finished. All imagery

Is mine from some fabric lines and some from a fabric I had made

When Robert Kaufman Fabrics offered their digital machine to

Make fabric for individuals like me. 

How I love to free motion machine quilt. And the bonus is having

a good machine in which to do it. Bernina 770QE is making my

Life a lot easier. I am slowly getting back into it.  

 
The finished product backed with wool blended felt. No

Batting or binding needed. Completely raw edge appliqué 

With Mistyfuse fusible web

The difference between taking the picture inside my house

As opposed to taking the picture outside. There is clearly a crease

Down the middle that isn’t visible inside. Oh, but I love the 

Texture it creates being outside. So beautiful.

And I love the back with all of the stitching lines on hot pink

Wool blended felt with black thread!

And my woven label that is sewn onto every quilt I make.

It’s my logo, my most iconic image from my work. Everyone

Would love coffee on the house! So fun!

Got Back on the Horse

This week I decided that I wanted to make a wall quilt 18” square. So, I used one of my watercolors as a jumping off point

I also made by work space on my design table larger by moving everything to an IKEA cart

Quilt #2 fusing fabrics together. The prints that are outlined in black are from a digital panel that I had done a couple of years ago. I use Mistyfuse as my fusible web. It’s the best because it doesn’t change the hand of the cloth

The irons and the houses are also from the digital fabric. It felt good to be back on the horse

Parts of the digital fabrics

Starting Quilt 3. Making the landscape

The black is wool blended felt from National Nonwovens that I use as the middle layer, instead of batting

The house on the hill. The hill is a combo of Hopscotch by me and RJR Fabrics

It is like putting a puzzle together 

More collating of fabrics which is the fun part

Quilt #3 is finished and I love it


Three wall quilts so far for my Fingal Funky Town, mostly based on my watercolors. It’s kinda fun to see how I have evolved in one week after getting back to myself in my quilting studio. Now they need to be quilted! 

A Housing Remake

This was my the focus fabric for my very first fabric that I designed for Hoffman California Fabrics in 2013.

 Part actual fabric collage and part watercolor illustrations 

I found in my studio the background fabric collage and decided to repurpose it 

Thinking of adding some fabrics from my Hopscotch line that I designed for RJR in 2016

I’ve added some green elements from Hopscotch to mix the old with the new

And looking at more fabrics from this line. These are all fused with Mistyfuse.

This line has 96 colors and it’s considered a blender line. Hopscotch by RJR

Adding some funky houses with extra elements!

Based loosely on this design that I drew in my sketchbook

This has been fun so far! Still playing a bit. Since all of my fabrics are fused with Mistyfuse, it’s easy to remove fabric that I am not happy with.

I love how vibrant the colors are 


On my design wall to see how it really looks. I spy a zipper!

Working on an Unfinished Project

I made a bunch of these more than a few years ago, and now I am squaring them up to be 12”

The idea was to put one of these pedal circles and I know there is a formal name for these

It’s really fun to look at each one of these to see fabrics from all of my designed collections of fabrics with Hoffman Fabrics and now adding my RJR fabrics

Moving along

I can make a big mess, leave it for the weekend and come back to it! 

This was the original idea years back, but then decided that I want it to be larger



And this is where I am now. I’ve got four more square to go. I might need more.

The 100 Day Project is moving along 

We had our first dinner with vaccinated family members and it was so great!


And now at the half way mark with 50. Another senseless shooting in Colorado 3/22. When will it end?

Pandemic Painting and Other Things

#the100dayproject on Instagram. Objects of My Affection is my theme

Thank goodness for FaceTime to sign Happy Birthday to a family member and see each other’s faces.

So happy to get the 2nd dose of the vaccine. I cried tears of joy to know that soon we will see our kids and grands! 

#the100dayproject and all of the things I learned during the Pandemic so far

Happy Love Day!

Thankful for a dedicated drawing and painting studio in our house and my sewing studio in an industrial park! 

Imagination run wild and it’s good to just go for the weird. It reflects my personality!

I went to my sewing studio twice last week even though it was just a tad chilly. Working my way through my extensive Polka Dot fabrics collection. This crazy pile is all fused with Mistyfuse, so it’s really to roll!

Back to Curvelets! These are 3.5” which is a little easier to work with than the 1.5” ones that I made with felt. I am not a piecer, but a Mistyfuser and my Curvelets will be fused together!

Making more!

Little Drunk Monday

I started this project in August. Two friends Leslie Tucker Jenison and Michele Muska started this sew along using these small templates made by BettyCrockerAss

And since I don’t piece ever with fabric, I decided to use wool blended felt. I wanted to join in, but on my own terms

The first few sets

Then thought that printed felt would be fun and add a lot to the piece



My foundation is a piece of wool blended felt that I Mistyfused and pressed it with a hot dry iron from the front and the back to give it an extra hot fuse. This photo is the back and I love the pattern from pressing!

Nothing is falling off! So no straight pins needed.

Let the fun begin with more Perle cotton and wool embellishments 

We are now in October and hand sewing. I really like how it looks!

This is November and being the artist that I am, I ask myself - does it need more? 

A close up on where I am now. I love the bright colors! Oh those polka dots!

This is completely hand sewn! Perle Cotton 8 and two colors of Perle Cotton 5 

Another view of the details

This is where I am now. 14 inch square. It might need more hand sewing!