Fancy Birds
Size: 60” wide, 69” height (2004)
Decorative yarns
were couched onto the surface during the piecing and quilting process, adding to the “feathered” textures.
Hand-dyed fabrics and batiks were used, but I have also hand-painted over some of the areas for higher contrast and detail. Machine
appliquéd, free-motion machine quilted.
Accepted into the 2004 Ontario Juried Show at the University of Waterloo, and took the
Award for Best Individual Large Quilt.
“Fancy Birds” was then submitted to the World Quilt Competition, with
almost 300 entries from 10 different countries.Awarded Best of World Honourable Mention (2nd place
Overall), the first time a Canadian Quilt has taken one of the top two
awards. Fancy Birds was on tour in the US until Nov. 2004.
Price: $9,200.00 plus tax and shipping.
Featured in Applied Arts Magazine with article on artist and her works,
Oct. 2005.
Canadian Quilter Magazine, Winter, 2004.
Canadian Quilter Magazine, Summer,
2004.
Condo Central Magazine, Spring, 2004.
