Friday, March 27, 2009

Wyoming Landscape Quilt

Quilt in progress. This is my most recent quilt project. My first attempt at a landscape quilt. This is a view in Wyoming from our driveway looking at the cross road and the backside of the mailboxes. The Big Horn Range in the background.

I took a landscape class with Regina Browne in Arizona. So far this is only tacked down with fusible web and pins but eventually I'll start stitching all the pieces down and quilt it. It still needs a LOT of work as I found a much better fabric for the forground that looks just like grasses and will save a bit of time rather than cutting greens into grass like shapes. I hand painted the sky. Colors look a little off here but it's close enough. I'll TRY to get this finished....someday! Hopefully it'll turn out okay! It's about 39" x 24" and why didn't I start out with a much smaller first time project!!!!
If you click on the image, you'll get a much better look at the details.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Lone Star


This is one of my first quilts made in about 1978. I tackled a difficult pattern right off the bat! It's machine pieced and hand quilted by me. Back when I hand quilted everything I made. I think I started this quilt first and then started the Postage Stamp Quilt at about the same time. 62" x 62". The colors came from memory of the hills from a trip out to eastern Montana. All the grass, cottonwood trees, dirt and sagebrush.

Embroidered Quilt


This is a small wall quilt. 21" x 32" I hand embroidered this and machine pieced. Made in about 1997. Not the best shot but it's winter and I can't get outside for photos. It's about 20 degrees!

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Moose Runner

Moose hearth Rug. Another one of my designs. 49 1/2" x 12 1/2"


It's snowing heavily today. We are suppose to get the heaviest snowfall of the season, possibly 8" or more. It's dark and gloomy and I can't see any further than about 20 feet outside. We even had snow thunder. I'm afraid we're in for a big one! The wild turkeys are really making noise out there. Everytime it thunders, they complain!

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Snowmen


It's time I add some of my hooked rugs again. One of my designs called First Heavy Snow. 49" x 12"

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Time for some color, it's so dreary outside today!


Hedgehog Cactus Arizona Spring 2008


Desert Poppies Arizona Spring 2008