Collage Quilts

How could a dear and lifelong friendship look in color? There is no need for a plan, just enjoying each through the years.

March 2025

Rhythm (undertitle "Eclectic Elections") came to life as a response to the intensity of the Presidential Election of 2024.  I was wondering how to put that massive noise we all heard everwhere into color. 

 It is my third quilt inspired by the sculptor Yaacov Agam.

January 2025.

A trip to Sedona, Arizona became the inspiration of this quilt that has been created from impressions in my memory (no photo).

October 2024.

Inspired by local vineyards, I created a quilt where the colors of growing wine give a visual to the different blending aromas we taste.

August 2024.

This quilt has been accepted to be shown and judged at the 2025 AQS Quiltweek Contest in Paducah, KY, April 2025.

With a heavy heart and mind,  I have decided to withdraw this quilt from Paducah in protest of the censoring of the SAQA "Color in context: Red" exhibition. More info in my blog "stuck in the controversy". You can find this in the "mind of color" section.

A second quilt inspired by the work of Yaacov Agam. A stack of T-shirts in an "alternative" clothing store for young people in New York was the inspiration. I didn't feel  at home in those urban circles.

July 2024.

All blue quilt. When I think of blue, I think of my family. It's our to-go color in clothing, decor.  We are all very different, but also very much the same as we share many of the same values that have been installed in each of us over the generations. Blue connects us.

May 2024

This little quilt is a collage based upon a photo. I will be part of  Stitching History Together by the Virginia Quilt Museum. There will be a celebration in quilts for Virginia 250 years, in 2026.

April 2024.

Dealing with my mother's situation during the last days of her life, I made this quilt. The colors are inspired by Italian Renaissance frescoes we saw together so often. I chose a Latin name for that reason. Also,  "in" means in Latin not only "in" but also "to".

March 2024.

She passed away in peace after the quilt was finished on March 26, 2024.

A quilted encouragement to look for little things that bring us joy, even when not perfect.

Here my organic color collage technique is used for the background.

January 2024.

This quilt is part of "Art in Hospitals" at UChicago Medicine Sept 24 - Jan 25.

Quilt inspired by the colors of  Dutch architecture. I think the way these colors are being used together, also says a lot about the Dutch people.

January 2024. 

An art quilt in the style of the work of sculptor Agam, whose work I admire. Concern for the safety of his work in his Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel during the attack of 10/7/2023 made me create this work. Personal design.

Finished December 2023.

This quilt was juried into the Mid Atlantic Quilt Show in February 2024.

100% collage. Own design. 

September 2023.

This quilt is available to do good.

This quilt was juried in SAQA Sew to Speak, curated by Deb Cashatt. March 2024.

The quilt was also part of "Celebrate Life 24" exhibition at the International Quilt Festival, Houston TX.

Collage from photo in Uluru, Australia. Bird was waiting for tourist (me!) to open the faucet. Kapi is the Aboriginal word for "water". 

August 2023.

July 2023. Organic Color Collage sample for Houston 2023 class in cool colors. 

This quilt was juried into Mid Atlantic Quilt Show in February 2024.

This quilt is  part of "Art in Hospitals" at UChicago Medicine Sept 24 - Jan 25.

April 2023. Third quilt in the organic color collage series. Sometimes things are prettier because of their imperfection.

This quilt was juried into the 5th Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Art Exhibition at the University of Maryland Global Campus.  June-September 2024.

Request to make an organic color collage for a grey room with brown furniture, using many but not too bright colors. 2022.

The first of my Organic Color Collage, with no other goal than combining browns, blues and off whites in a quilt. 2022. 

67" x 67".  March 2023. Collaged star on improv background.

2022. Instrument is collaged on top of pieced background. Personal design.

Collage. 2019.

Personal design. Pattern available.

2018.

Leaves are collaged on pieced background. Personal design.

Wedding quilt for my son and his wife, based upon an old photo. of the Grant-Humphreys Mansion in Denver, CO

Collage and Fusible applique. 2016

2015. Named after the guide that showed us a beautiful leopard on safari in Botswana. Personal design, collage based upon a photo taken during trip.

2016. Quilt made in honor of our guide Waruna who showed us a seaturtle laying eggs on the beach in Tangella, Sri Lanka. Personal design. Photo collage.