In the Stash
Jacqueline Bullock's Jellybean Quilt
"Knowing that I wanted to keep this a secret I had planned on covering it up if anyone came to visit (especially the Newfoundlanders). The plan was good but we had surprise visitors one evening and this gentleman’s daughter saw the backing but not the quilt. Oh Oh she recognized the Jellybean houses. Questions were asked..."
God Bless my Sou'westers!
Design Community Design Story Fabric design Newfoundland and Labrador Patterned fabric Scrappy Mummers Surface Pattern Design Guide UPPERCASE
“I am pleased to inform you that you will be one of the 100 designers profiled in the UPPERCASE Surface Pattern Design Guide, in issue #57 April-May-June.”
The First Small Gifts
Christmas Newfoundland santa Vintage Quilt
Over his arm, a quilt, every small shred of fabric holding a piece of this families story. It proved a simple affair, both front and back a jigsaw of larger squares of flour sacks and the like, along with many smaller oddly shaped pieces of fabric, all sewn together.
The Making of The Quilted Funny Girl
Babs Barbra Streisand Quilted Funny Girl
I have the biggest LOVE for Barbra Streisand. Her voice is like silk and her talent is undeniable. There is no other performer, in my eyes, who is more deserving of being captured in over 3300 one inch finished squares of fabric. I got the idea to make this 5ft x 7ft wall hanging quilt of Babs in 2018 after seeing a picture of a quilted Ab Lincoln in a magazine that had placed at QuiltCon in 2017. It inspired me to think about colour and value and fabric and how portraits could be created from these elements. It also...
Schemes and Seams
applique christmas colour colour theory quilt story santa
My quilts are primarily pictorial, making it easy to pull some of the concepts associated with colour and composition into projects. What is universal though, is that no matter what we piece or patch together, colour is experienced with the eyes and the heart. What I want colour to say is as important to me as how I want it to be seen.