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Tag Archives: Creative Process
Wedding for Bill and Jim
After more than 30 years, they are tying the knot. Our good friends Bill and Jim are getting married April 2, 2016. This QuiltToon is made from fabric and thread and a small amount of beading. It’s about 9″ X … Continue reading
“Tillie’s Story” Quilts on Exhibit
The sixteen small (12″ X 12″) quilted illustrations of my Mother’s life growing up in a Kansas Mennnonite community in the early 1900s will be on display at the Albuquerque, New Mexico Mennonite Church from Feb. 14th through April 10, … Continue reading
Posted in How Tos - Quilt Making, Uncategorized
Tagged Creative Process, Fiber Art Quilts, Kansas, Quilting, Story telling with quilts
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Autumn 2015
A QuiltToon portraying autumn with the confetti technique. Continue reading
Alpaca Cutie
I bought some Alpaca fleece at Natural Fiber and Yarn Company in Grand Rapids, Ohio (it’s right on Main St.) the other day. They had photos of their Alpacas in the shop and I couldn’t resist making this cute little … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Musings, How Tos - Quilt Making, Uncategorized
Tagged Alpacas, Cartooning, Creative Process, Family Farms, Fiber Art Quilts, Quilting
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A little Piece of Paradise
Traveling down Michigan’s Rte. 23 from Ann Arbor, I saw, what looked like to me, “a little piece of paradise.” It’s machine pieced, appliqued and quilted. Thread sketching was used. Clouds were painted with fabric paint. Shadows painted with dye-sticks. QuiltToon … Continue reading
The Seasons Through My Window
This “QuiltToon” shows all the seasons of the year as I see them through my bedroom window. The branches of our big willow tree and the window box tell the story — the pointsettia is, of course, inside the window, … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Musings, How Tos - Quilt Making, Uncategorized
Tagged Creative Process, Fiber Art Quilts, Quilting, Story Quilts
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Teen-aged Male Humanoid
My 15 year old grandson, Danny, is a great artist. When he was about 14 he created a self-portrait on this computer. It looks just like him! I wanted to enterpret his work in a QuiltToon and did so. The self-portrait … Continue reading
A Kansas Tornado and a Dust Storm
In the early 1930s, my mother, Tillie, taught 17 children in a one-room school in rural central Kansas. Recently, an elderly man, Stanley, who had her as his teacher when he was in the second grade told me many things … Continue reading
Three Color QuiltToon
This QuiltToon was made in response to a challenge from my Art Quilt Group to make a quilt using only 3 colors. It is 14″ X 12″. Machine and hand pieced and appliqued. Completed in Nov. 2014.
Posted in Daily Musings, How Tos - Quilt Making, Uncategorized
Tagged Art Quilt Group, Creative Process, Fiber Art Quilts, Quilting
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The QuiltToonist 
Trump’s Been Checked
The checks and balances of the three branches of our government will hopefully stop Trump in his march toward being, as Steven Miller of the inner Whitehouse circle said, a ” President that will not be questioned.” What an astonishing … Continue reading →