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Gallery
Have a look around
my online gallery. Simply click on the quilts for an enlargement
or close up. Feel free to give me some feed back by emailing
me.
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Lectern Fall
Size: width: 50cm x length: 85cm.
Commissioned for the Auckland Cathedral at Parnell.
Adapted from the artwork of Penny Otter.
Spectrum Fabrics, Kerikeri supplied the hand-dyed silk
and cotton fabric of Mieke Apps.
This was a most enjoyable piece to make, and the first
time I have machine embroidered such large areas on
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eye Auckland
Size: 104cm x 103cm. (At the longest points.)
Entered into the Auckland Patchworkers and Quilters
Guild, 'Challenge 2000' competition.
Received 'Best of Show'
This competition was run in conjunction with 'The America's
Cup yacht races, which I am proud to say, New Zealand
won on their yacht painted black. I also used black
for my yacht. |
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Koru
II - Chakra Harmony
Size: 40cm x 40cm (Miniature quilt.)
Using
a Maori traditional design, the koru, I layered the
colours to reflex the seven energy centres of our chakra.
I decided that this little quilt took as long to make
as a larger wall quilt would have!
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Autumn
Waves (From my 'Waves' series.)
Size: 111cm x 111cm
Inspired
by a walk with my then 2-year-old grandson, on a sunny
but windy autumn day.
'Look, Nanny trees wave hello me.' Aren't grandchildren
so cute!
This quilt received an 'Award of Distinction' in 'The
6th Quilt Nihon Exhibition 2000' Japan. |
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Stargate
(named well before the TV series!)
Size: 125cm x 125cm.
Although
this quilt was made many years ago, I still like it.
It now serves as an example for my class, 'Colouring-in
with Pattern and Fabric'. The methods taught in this
workshop are how I still create my quilts.
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Antipodean
Solstice
Size: 180cm x 180cm
A
finalist in the Quilters Newsletter Magazine 'Artistic
Expressions'. Exhibited in Lyon France, where it received
an 'Judges Award'. My salute to my favourite artist,
Kandinsky.
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Some
Like It Hot!
(A three dimensional quilt.)
Size: Height of cylinders is 20cm to 45cm
Another
quilt from my 'Wave' series, and made just for fun!
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Happy
Millennium Planet Gaia
(From my 'Waves' series.)
Size: 185cm x 160cm
A finalist
in the 'Houston Millennium Contest' 2000.
Gaia means Mother Earth, or as I think of it, the Blue
Planet.
I wrote a poem as greetings for Gaia.This is machine
written using variegated pearl cotton in the bobbin,
in my best schoolgirl writing.
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Family
Portrait (My first 'greenie' quilt.)
Size: 172cm x 172cm
This quilt
was my way of saying that all on Earth is made from
the same energy source, so, it is human kinds best interest
to clean our act up!
A finalist in 'The 5th Quilt Nihon Exhibition 1998'
in Japan. Commercial and computer printed fabrics, appliquéd
with simple machine embroidery. The back shows another
quilt with animals not represented on the front.
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Auckland,
my Pacific Patch
Size: 93cm x 80cm
This is my
map of Auckland City, complete with a square Rangitoto
Island, one of the many
extinct volcanoes of our city.
Auckland is called the 'City of Sails'. Many are very
keen on boating and other water sports and our beautiful
harbour gives us a wonderful playground.
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