Flesh and Blood

Cotton, overdyed cotton, polyester sheer,
embroidery floss, buttons
2003










thirty

The future is not ours to see

cotton, fabric paint
painted, hand applique, hand quilted
1990








twenty nine

The Mother, the child

linen, black and white family photos,
water
colour
painting,
thread,
polyester
sheer,ink
painted,
assembled

1988


twenty eight

husband and wife

dyed cotton, cotton floss, beads
hand appliqued, hand pieced
hand quilted with chain stitch embroidery
2004








reverse of quilt



twenty seven

July Garden

cotton, overdyed cotton
machine pieced, hand quilted
1997






twenty six

richness

cotton, heat transfer
hand pieced and quilted
a miniature
1996




twenty five

The House with the Golden Windows: West Wall

metallic fabric, magazine papers, thread, dyed artist canvas, machine stitch and hand stitch, 1993, installation





Ned had already moved to Manitoulin when I stitched this house in 1992 and 93. It's an idealized replica of our house in Kenora


Feathers are stitched into the West wall's golden metallic fabric windows. A beautiful and most traditional quilting stitch.






The papers on the outside wall are from home decorating magazines. They have been arranged as sunshine and shadow, a beautiful and traditional quilt pattern.






the inside west wall
silk and cotton fabrics, buttons, cotton quilt batt, machine sewing threads, embroidery threads and beads, photographs. 1993
This piece measure about 5 feet across and 6 feet high if you count the thread fringe.





Every day during the year 1990, I stood at one of the windows in my house and took a photo. The photos from the west windows show our neighbour's house and yard.

solar images
chain stitch



The west symbolizes middle age, dusk, autumn...all those cyclical things.





twenty four

November

cotton, paper from nature magazines,
family photographs, thread
1990







twenty three