If you're interested in buying one of the quilts, please email me at: whynottryitagain (at) hotmail.com with "quilt show" in the subject heading.
Also, please note I consider most of these quilts for the wall, not for use on the bed.
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"Desert Cactus II," 70" x 70", 2010-2012 original design, paper and machine pieced, has over 3,000 pieces in it, long-arm quilted shown in two national and one international shows $1700 |
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"Atomic Circles," 50" x 50," 2009-2014 original design inspired by Kumiko Sudo's book about Japanese kamon (family crests) machine applique and home-machine quilted $1200 |
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"I Can See Why," 18" x 24", 2015 based on a screenshot of Edward Burns in Confidencefrom a series exploring depictions of masculinity in television and film machine applique, couching, and home-machine quilted $250 |
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"Self Portrait Applique Challenge," 50" x 50", 2013-2015 original applique designs representing symbols of myself: star-gazer lilies, luna moth, a lyre, dogwood blossoms, swans, a shield, sword, and bow, a platypus, and a basket full of fruits with a chickadee and swath of leaves; created as part of challenge from Bay Oaks Quilt Guild hand applique, machine pieced, long-arm quilted $1500 |
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"Self Portrait as Strawberry, by Moonlight," 24" x 29", 2015 created as part of a series using the self-portrait genre to poke fun at myself; also uses a shirt I wore frequently machine applique, home machine quilted $300 |
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"Self Portrait in Quadrants," 50" x 50", 2012-2014 created as a challenge from Bay Oaks Quilt Guild I wanted to create not one, but four self portraits and join them each represents a different aspect of myself: a contemporary self portrait, my thumbprint, a childhood portrait, and a verbal portrait machine and hand applique, machine pieced, chenilled, home machine quilted shown in two national shows $2000 |
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"He stared at everything...," 18" x 24", 2015-2016 based on a screenshot from Wild Reeds (a French movie) from the series about masculinities in television and film machine applique, couching, home machine quilted $350 |
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"Brocade Helix," 38" x 80", 2015-2016 I'd wanted to work with revealed seams and brocades together for a while, so I created this minimalist piece; you can see my Japanese influences in this work also. machine pieced, long-arm quilted $800 |
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"Self Portrait as Sapling, Charred," 17" x 24", 2015-2016 from the series of self-portraits mocking myself, this one uses a child's shirt purchased from Goodwill; I intended the quilt to make a statement about how explorers destroyed indigenous cultures in the U.S. $300 |
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"Over the stillborn calf...," 12 1/2" x 12 1/2", 2008-2014 created as number one in a series of five miniature quilts using Mom's Focus Fabric design it incorporates a haiku of my own; the reason it took so long to finish is because I didn't know how I wanted to quilt it until 2014; I ended up creating individual flowers for each block, quilted on my home sewing machine machine pieced, machine quilted $200 |
