SOLD

This quilt has sold to a health care facility in Illinois.  It warms my heart that it will be viewed by those in need of an escape from what they may be facing or their loved one facing.  Always special to me when my work is received in this way.

MY EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY

MY EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY

30" X 30"

Original Design

Rawedged Fused Applique

Machine Quilted

Not for sale at this time

THE JOURNEY

I love making poppies and this journey was no exception.  I don't know why but the leaves the stems the flower the buds all are exciting to do.  Perhaps it is the movement of the whole thing...always looking like they are swaying in the wind.  Perhaps it is just the thoughts I had while working on it.  Whatever it is...I enjoy it all from the start to the finish.

Thank you to all who have taken this journey with me.  Hopefully I will start a new one soon and you will join me once again.

Thank you so very much.

A POPPY AND TWO BUDS

By the end of the day yesterday, I had accomplished this.   Two buds with stems and leaves...most of it quilted.  Tomorrow I will work on the next poppy...there are two fully bloomed poppies still coming.   Feeling good about the mood and the feel of it.

BUD

The bud is quilted.....now on to quilting the leaves and then another poppy.

POPPY ONE

Finished the first Poppy for the new piece.  Quilted it today and added a bud. So far....so good.

NEW BEGINNINGS

 I am starting a new piece and am doing a whole cloth background this time.  This is an overdyed piece by Wendy Richardson and I love it so much just the way it is.  So I have made it to the 30 X 30 size I need and have quilted it.

 Now I need some poppies to put on it.  I like to make up the big flowers first because their positioning on the background will be most important and everything else will be worked in around them.  I keep a sketchbook of drawings to go to when I need flowers and I love poppies so always have an abundance to choose from.  Here is one.

I place my sheet of tracing paper over the drawing and redraw and number each petal and the center.  This will be used to trace out these petals on the fusible as well as my guide when putting it all together as most of you have seen me do. 

They will be done in shades of orange.

Sold - Field of Poppies

Sold this quilt yesterday.  I have had it a while but it finally found a home in Minnesota.
I still like this one a lot.....does not show as well in the photo as it does in reality.  Lots of details and some couched yarn as well.