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ASIAN PERSIMMON
15.5x11.5" (Copyright 2023)
White fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion machine quilted.
FOR SALE: $600
BUBBLEBERRY
6.5 x 9.75" (Copyright 2023)
Wool felt, cotton threads, cotton batting, cotton backing.
Free-motion machine quilted.
FOR SALE: $300
SCRIBBLES
6.75 x 18.75" (Copyright 2023)
White fabric, acrylic textile paint, ink, cotton batting, interfacing. Painted, marked, free-motion machine quilted.
FOR SALE: $230
INFECTIOUS
19.5 x 20.25" (Copyright 2023)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, ink, cotton batting, cotton thread, cotton backing. Hand drawn, wholecloth painted, free-motion machine quilted.
FOR SALE: $500
HOLLYHOCKS
19x30.5" (Copyright 2023)
Commercial cotton and batik fabric, silk, sherpa, cotton batting, cotton thread, cotton backing fabric. Raw-edge appliqué, free-motion machine quilted. 
FOR SALE: $1500
CHINESE LANTERNS
36.5x41.5" (Copyright 2023)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton batting, cotton thread, commercial cotton print backing fabric. Wholecloth painted, stenciled, free-motion machine quilted.
FOR SALE: $3,780
MARBLED SALAMANDERS
30x30" (Copyright 2023)
This piece is is a tribute to North Carolina’s state salamander, Ambystoma opacumis. White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, cotton batting, interfacing, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion machine quilted. Stretched around a wooden frame.
FOR SALE: $2,500
RED MAPLE LEAVES
22x41.5" (Copyright 2022)
White fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton batting, cotton thread, cotton backing fabric. Wholecloth painted, free-motion machine quilted.
FOR SALE: $2,300
MISTLETOE
17x19.5" (Copyright 2022)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, ink, cotton threads, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, stenciled, free-motion machine quilted.
FOR SALE: $700
FOR UKRAINE
21.75" x  17.25" (Copyright 2022)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, interfacing, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $1500
BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
36x46.5" (Copyright 2022)
Cotton fabric, cotton threads, cotton batting, cotton backing. Pieced, free-motion machine quilted.
The name of this piece is a nod to the Mister Rogers song, which refers to idealistic view of the world, in which people want to be good neighbors. I believe the good people of Ukraine and the good people of Russia want to be good neighbors. It is a dictator, his cronies, and his war machine that make it impossible. Bombs have destroyed beautiful neighborhoods where people lived, loved, and played with their children. Sadly, the same patterns are playing out in Israel and Palestine, now. 
FOR SALE: $3,000
RETROGRADE
39.5x69.25" (Copyright 2022)
White cotton fabric, dye, cotton threads, cotton batting, cotton backing. Screen printed hand-dyed cotton fabrics, pieced, appliquéd, free-motion machine quilted.
FOR SALE: $4,100

NET OF WONDER
30x50" (Copyright 2019)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, ink, cotton threads, cotton batting, interfacing, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion machine quilted.
This piece celebrates the life of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who was an explorer and environmentalist passionate about the sea and everything that swam or crawled in it. Cousteau warned us about the dangers of coastal development, pollution, exploitation, and over-fishing. His life was one of extraordinary passion and purpose. “The sea,” Cousteau said, “once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
FOR SALE: $3,000
FERN SHADOW – Pink
15x30" (Copyright 2023)
Acrylic paint on canvas, on stretcher bars.
FOR SALE: $300
FERN SHADOW – LAVENDER
15x30" (Copyright 2023)
Acrylic paint on canvas, on stretcher bars.
FOR SALE: $300
FERN SHADOW – BLUE
15x30" (Copyright 2023)
Acrylic paint on canvas, on stretcher bars.
FOR SALE: $300
SILVER BUDDHA ON RED
12" square (Copyright 2022)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion machine quilted. Framed in a 13" black shadow box frame.
FOR SALE: $175
STONE BUDDHA ON GREEN
12" square (Copyright 2022)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion machine quilted. Framed in a 13" black shadow box frame.
FOR SALE: $175
OAKS
43" x 41" (Copyright 2022)
 Cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, stenciled, free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $3520

Witch Hazel
26" x  21" (Copyright 2021)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, interfacing, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $2000

Pokeweed Berries
19.5" x  27.75" (Copyright 2021)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, interfacing, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion machine quilted. 
FOR SALE: $2200
Beautyberry
20" x  27.5" (Copyright 2021)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, interfacing, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $2200

SOUrwooD
24" x  17" (Copyright 2021)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, interfacing, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $1650
Winged Sumac
19.5" x  25.75" (Copyright 2021)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, interfacing, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $2000
Drama Queens: Pitcher Plants
32" x  25" (Copyright 2021)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, interfacing, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $3200


Maidenhair Fern
21" x  16" (Copyright 2021)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, interfacing, cotton batting, cotton backing. Wholecloth painted, free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $1350

Four Eyes
16.75" x  16.75"  (Copyright 2021)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, interfacing, cotton batting, cotton backing. Digitally manipulated photograph, printed, painted, free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $600
Intergalactic Pinball
15" x  22.5" (Copyright 2020)
Hand-dyed and hand-painted cotton fabric, interfacing, silk sari ribbon, embroidery thread, perle cotton, gift card discs, beads. Free-motion machine quilted, hand embroidered.
FOR SALE: $1,200
Bittersweet Autumn
22.5" x  28" (Copyright 2020)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton backing, cotton threads, cotton batting. 
Wholecloth painted, free-motion machine quilted. 
FOR SALE: $1,530
Pink Coleus
35" x  35" (Copyright 2020)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton backing, cotton threads, cotton batting. 
Wholecloth painted, free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $2,975
NOTE: This piece will tour with the “Sacred Threads” traveling exhibit, and will be available in late 2024.
I’ll Fly Away
40" x  42" (Copyright 2020)
This piece is my tribute to the countless African Americans and people of color who have been killed in incidents of racial violence and injustice. It honors the resiliency and courage of black people in America, who have faced violence, oppression, injustice, generational poverty and racism for more than 400 years in this country of “liberty and justice for all.” White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, cotton batting. Painted, stenciled, free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $3,000
Mañana Iguana
8" x  10.5" (Copyright 2020)
Hand-dyed cotton fabric, Lutradur, cotton threads, cotton batting. Free-motion quilted. 
FOR SALE: $200
Urchins
24.5" x 42" (Copyright 2019)
White cotton fabric; acrylic textile paint, commercial cotton fabric backing, cotton thread, wool batting. Wholecloth painted, free-motion quilted. 
Mounted to canvas on artists' stretcher bars.
FOR SALE: $2,500
King Henry VIII
8.5" x 12.25" (Copyright 2018)
This piece is done almost entirely in thread (the exception being the small inked swirls in the background). It is based on the famous painting of King Henry done by Hans Holbein the Younger about 1536. Linen fabric, cotton thread, ink, wool batting. Free-motion machine quilted.
FOR SALE: $500
Succulent Pot I
6" x 6" (Copyright 2018)
Wool felt, linen and cotton fabric, acrylic paint, beads, cotton thread, wool roving, wool batting, interfacing.
FOR SALE: $300
LEMON FIZZ
13" x 35" (Copyright 2018)
Wool batting, dyed and free-motion stitched.
FOR SALE: $500
Duel
32" x 26" (Copyright 2017)
White cotton fabric; black, white and red threads; ink; wool batting. Thread sketched, free-motion quilted, hand embroidered. The 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr took the life of one of our most brilliant founding fathers, and destroyed the career of a vice president and Revolutionary War hero. I remember learning about dueling in elementary school and being in total disbelief about the stupidity of it. Shooting someone in a bizarre social ritual over a disagreement or a slight to one’s honor? Even more shocking is that more than 200 years later, Americans are still shooting each other at record pace, but with far more lethal weapons, and that we seem unable to find any real solutions to the violence.
FOR SALE: $1,400
Nikau
28.5" x 26" (Copyright 2017)
Commercial and hand-dyed cotton fabrics, cotton batting, cotton backing fabric. Improvisationally pieced, machine quilted. The Nikau palm is the only palm native to New Zealand, and it has a beautiful striped trunk. 
FOR SALE: $1,600
Crystalline
40" x 40" (Copyright 2016)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton thread, cotton batting. Wholecloth painted, 
free-motion machine quilted. Created for the Dinner at Eight Artists’ exhibition, “Pattern,” which debuted at International Quilt Festival – Houston 2016. 
FOR SALE: $2,500
Purple Anemone
17" x 23" (Copyright 2015)
Cotton fabric, fusible adhesive, acrylic paint (for small dots on flower center), cotton thread, cotton batting. Fusible appliqué, free-motion thread sketched and machine quilted. This piece was featured on a 2015 episode of TheQuiltShow.com with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims. 
FOR SALE: $1,000
Orange Gerbera
24" x 34" (Copyright 2015)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton thread, wool/polyester batting. Wholecloth painted and free-motion quilted. Created for an episode of TheQuiltShow.com with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims.
For sale: $1,200
Old Red Door
40" x 40" (Copyright 2015)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton thread, wool/polyester batting. Wholecloth painted and free-motion quilted. Created for Dinner at Eight Artists’ exhibition, “Affinity,” which debuted at the International Quilt Market (Oct. 24-26, 2015) and Festival (Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 2015) in Houston, and also showed at International Quilt Festival – Chicago 2016.
FOR SALE:  $2,500
Look, See
36" x 36" (Copyright 2015)
Cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton thread, cotton batting. Free-motion machine quilted.
This piece was created for the exhibition “My Personal App,” which debuted at Road to California in January 2015. Quilters invited to participate in this exhibition were asked to create a 36" square quilt that looks like an app icon, representing their personal app. This is based on a photograph of my eye. I believe it is the mind, heart, and eye of the photographer, and not the camera, that makes a good shot. It is learning to see – not just look at things. 
FOR SALE: $1,600
Look For A Beautiful Thing
14.5" x 12" (Copyright 2014)
Cotton fabric, acrylic ink, cotton thread, cotton batting. Free-motion machine quilted. Created for a 2015 article in Quilting Arts magazine on using acrylic ink for lettering.
FOR SALE: $100
Lenten Rose
14.25" x 10.75" (Copyright 2014)
White cotton fabric, black and white cotton threads, wool/polyester batting. Free-motion machine quilted. This piece started with a black line drawing from my sketchbook; I tried to imitate the cross-hatching in the drawing when I quilted it.
FOR SALE: $500
Gazing Globe
24" x 60" (Copyright 2014)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, wool/polyester batting. Free-motion machine quilted. This piece was made for the Dinner at Eight Artists’ “Reflections” exhibition, and was shown at International Quilt Festival 2014 in Houston. 
FOR SALE: $2000
New Zealand Chook #4
24" x 24" (Copyright 2013)
White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, wool/polyester batting. Thread sketched and free-motion machine quilted. This piece is based on a photo I took in New Zealand of a cocky rooster. Chickens are often called “chooks” in New Zealand. Included in the 2015-2016 exhibition “From Insects to Elephants” at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts. 
FOR SALE: $900
Never Enough
11" x 14.75" (Copyright 2013)
Cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, wool/polyester batting. Free-motion machine quilted. 
FOR SALE: $300
Red-Spotted Purple
19.75" x 16.75" (Copyright 2013)
Batik fabrics, fusible adhesive, cotton threads, wool/polyester batting. Thread sketched and free-motion machine quilted. This butterfly’s name comes from its puraple-blue color, and the distinctive red spots on its front wings. Based on an original photo. 
FOR SALE: $700
Uncle Albert’s Reverie
17" x 42" (Copyright 2013)
White cotton fabric, images printed on paper, gel medium, acrylic textile paint, cotton thread, wool/polyester batting, cotton thread. Collaged paper and paint on fabric, free-motion quilted. Started in a class taught by Judy Coates Perez. This piece features old physiology illustrations similar to those in a textbook written by my great-great uncle Dr. Albert Philson Brubaker. This piece was on the cover of the January 2013 issue of the magazine Genetics in Medicine.


FOR SALE: $1,750
Passion Flower
15" x 19-1/4" (2012)
Cotton fabric, cotton threads, wool/polyester batting. Free-motion thread sketched and machine quilted. The passion flower comes in many varieties, but all have many small radial filaments (the squiggly little things that radiate out from the area in the center (which contains 3 stigmas and 5 anthers). It is very dramatic in appearance. 
FOR SALE: $1000
Synchronized Synchronous Fireflies
24" x 24" (Copyright 2011) 
Hand-dyed and batik cotton fabric, fusible adhesive, Angelina, Crystalina, cotton threads, wool/polyester batting. Thread sketched and free-motion machine quilted. This piece celebrates a phenomenon observed in the Great Smoky Mountains where certain species of fireflies (also called lightning bugs) light up and turn off at the same time  during a few weeks each summer. This got me thinking about synchronized swimmers, and I decided to make a piece with fireflies that were both synchronous and synchronized. 
FOR SALE: $1,000 
Rusty Chevys
20.5" x 15.25" (Copyright 2010)
Cotton fabric, fusible adhesive, cotton threads, cotton batting. Free-motion thread sketched and machine quilted. The pattern for this piece is in my book, Point, Click, Quilt! Turn Your Photos into Fabulous Fabric Art.
FOR SALE: $1000
African Beads
12" x 12" (Copyright 2010) 
Cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads, cotton batting. Wholecloth painted, free-motion thread sketched and machine quilted.  The pattern for this piece is in my book, Point, Click, Quilt! Turn Your Photos into Fabulous Fabric Art.
FOR SALE: $300
Buttons
12" x 12" (Copyright 2010)
Cotton fabric, fusible adhesive, cotton threads, cotton batting. Free-motion machine quilted. The pattern for this piece is in my book, Point, Click, Quilt! Turn Your Photos into Fabulous Fabric Art.
FOR SALE: $200
Cylindrical
14.5" x 20" (Copyright 2010)
Cotton fabric, fusible adhesive, cotton threads, cotton batting. Free-motion machine quilted. The pattern for this piece is in my book, Point, Click, Quilt! Turn Your Photos into Fabulous Fabric Art.
FOR SALE: $300
Spiderweb
15.25" x 20" (Copyright 2010) 
Cotton fabric, foil, foil adhesive, cotton threads, cotton batting. Free-motion machine quilted. The pattern for this piece is in my book, Point, Click, Quilt! Turn Your Photos into Fabulous Fabric Art. There's a spider in this web; do you see him?
FOR SALE: $1000
Snow Shadows
15" x 11.5" (Copyright 2010)
Cotton fabric, Angelina fibers, fusible adhesive, cotton threads, cotton batting. Free-motion machine quilted. The pattern for this piece is in my book, Point, Click, Quilt! Turn Your Photos into Fabulous Fabric Art.
FOR SALE: $500
Purple Phalaenopsis
23.75" x 36.5" (Copyright 2009)
White cotton fabric, acrylic fabric paint, cotton threads, wool/polyester batting. Wholecloth painted, machine quilted. This is part of a series of pieces I did on orchids for an exhibition by a group of fiber artists in Charlotte, NC, Fiber Art Options. The exhibition debuted at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, near Charlotte, in February 2010.
FOR SALE: $2,000
Hidden Identity
17" x 14" (Copyright 2010)
White cotton fabric, cotton threads, interfacing, cotton batting. Thread sketched, free-motion machine quilted. This is a study in creating lines with different characteristics. Note the contrast between the organic lines in the fingerprint and the mechanical grid in the background. I created this piece as a sample for an article I wrote for the April/May issue of Quilting Arts magazine, called “Thread Sketching 101, Lesson 2: Focus on Line.”
FOR SALE: $1000
Lepidoptera
39" x 39" (Copyright 2009)
Cotton fabric, cotton threads, fabric paint, wool/polyester batting. Wholecloth painted, free-motion machine quilted. Named after the order of insects that includes butterflies and moths. Won a Merit Award for Outstanding Use of Color at the 2009 Asheville Quilt Show, and Best Machine Quilting at the 2009 Lake Norman Quilters’ show. Juried into the Studio Art Quilt Associates’ exhibition “SAQA Frontiers: Art Meets Science,” which debuted at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, England, Aug. 19-22, 2010. Featured in the Dec. 2010/Jan. 2011 issue of Quilters Newsletter. 
FOR SALE: $3,200

Communion
24" (bottom) x 12" (top) x 36" long (Copyright 2008)
Cotton fabrics, cotton and rayon threads, fabric paint, water-soluble wax pastels, cotton batting. Fusible appliqué, free-motion machine thread sketched and quilted. This is my panel from “Motherhood,” a group quilt by The Pandoras, a group of art quilters. I loved nursing my children, and felt it to be a true communion on many levels: as an act of sharing, as a spiritual fellowship, and as a holy moment.
FOR SALE: $1,350

Gossamer
21" x 21" (Copyright 2006)
Batik fabric, cotton thread, beads, fusible adhesive, cotton batting. Fusible appliqué, beaded, free-motion thread sketched and quilted. Three-dimensional butterfly. This quilt won third place in the 2006 “Art of the Quilt” contest exhibited at the American Sewing Expo.
FOR SALE: $2,000
Dragonflies
32" x 29" (Copyright 2006)
Cotton batiks, hand-dyed cottons, cotton batting, cotton thread. Mounted on artists’ canvas stretchers. Fusible appliqué, free-motion thread sketched and machine quilted. 
FOR SALE: $1,500 
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