Built Quilts

Improvisational cutting, piecing and layering lead to playful but serious experimental work. Unexpected irregularities of form and position produce rhythmic movement in each piece, in addition to certain kinetic qualities and a lively dancing style.

Three styles of design appear in this series. African Rhythms quilts incorporate African fabrics and colors to give distinctively ethnic character. Look for another perspective on Africa in African Rock Art Quilts.

Structured Fabrics are specialized quilts built as combinations of stripes, checks, and plaids. They are quite three-dimensional and like all quilts they beg to be touched.

Darned Quilts explore options for color and value manipulation made possible by raw edge piecing. Darned Quilts and Structured Fabrics are available as online quilt design classes at Quilt University.

African Rhythms

Structured Fabrics Quilts

Darned Quilts

 
From simultaneous design and sewing processes, my pieces seem to grow of their own accord. I do not control their development, but they dictate to me what should come next. The nature of the materials, in conjunction with an artist’s passion, produces unique results. I am never so happy as when my creative spirit takes control and the work flows.