Japanese Tea Set 1

This quilt was made for the 2016 SAQA Benefit Auction. A photograph of a Japanese Tea set was manipulated in Photoshop to create a sharp image which [...]

A New Obsession

This was my very first attempt a beading on fabric which was started in a Nancy Eha class. I was soon obsessed and spent many hours [...]

Ocean Dream

Designed to reflect the movement and colour of the ocean Layered hand dyed cotton and silk organza heavily embellished with had stitched beads. 2009 Quilt Size [...]

Growth

I wanted to think about all the shades of green I could and made a piece of felt using the wet felt method and then embellished it [...]

Everywhere

This quilt was made for the Exhibition - Beneath the Southern Sky It is a collage piece of hand dyed and printed fabrics relating to the Australian [...]

Japanese Love

This quilt was made from recycled kimonos purchased in Kyoto. The stamps and motifs were inspired also by Japanese elements. The overlay design is the Japanese [...]

Hexagons are Taking Over

Everywhere I go - quilters are working on hexagons. I just needed to see what the fuss is all about. These were made with my own hand dyed and painted fabrics [...]

Orvieto Memories

Quilt was started while I was teaching in the beautiful Italian village of Orvieto. All the fabrics in this quilt were created from white fabric using a variety of [...]

Party Time

This quilt originally was designed to be a random placement of fabrics. It has one simple block design in two sizes. When it was finished it lacked something. A random piece of [...]

Blue Corridor

Quilt inspired by the beauty of Anton Gaudi's Casa Battlo building in Barcelona. The corridor in the attic has beautiful lines and draws you in to following the path [...]

Squared Up

This quilt was one of my first to use multiple fabric textures. Only purples and green fabrics were used but a wide variety of fabric types including silk, cotton , [...]

Where Did the Time Go?

This quilt conveys the message of a demonstration of how a simple growth chart can make you realise that time has passed. Designed as an entry for A Matter of Time Exhibition Hand dyed [...]

Gaudi Star

Quilt was inspiredly the mosaics by Anton Gaudi in Park Guell in Barcelona. The screen printed design on all the fabric was based on the paving stones also designed by [...]

Australian Spirit was inspired by the colours of the Australian Outback. Sometimes green and lush and sometimes dry and harsh. The quilt was made of a wide variety of textured, painted and dyed fabrics [...]

Beneath the Surface

Quilt was inspired by the movement of water and the objects that float in the current. It is made of hand dyed silk noil and cotton which has been [...]

Bushfire Sunset

This quilt was inspired by the colours and devastation of the bushfires which ravage Australia every summer. The original photo was broken up into a grid and then into 9 different shades [...]

Barcelona Sunset

This quilt was inspired by the architecture of Anton Gaudi in Barcelona and the Modernista tile designs of the 1900s. A single piece of hand dyed fabric was cut and [...]

Barcelona Modernista

This quilt was inspired by the colours and shapes of the ceramic tiles which were developed in Barcelona around 1900. It was called the Modernista style. The hand dyed background fabric is cotton [...]