"Never have more children than you have car windows."
Erma Bombeck

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Scrappy Nine Patch

Quilt background is woven strips of fabric. Patches are little peices of scraps, hand embroidered. Quilt is 10 inches square. Fabrics are tea dyed and rusted.















Rusty Rose

This doll I call Rusty Rose. The recycled fashion doll was first covered with tissue paper, gessoed, and rusted with a two part rusting solutions. The fabric was rust dyed.














Wednesday, June 23, 2010


My daughter Ivy, printed on fabric and appliqued onto rusted,
free motion stitched fabric. Stamped copper.








Friday, June 11, 2010




Grandma and Great Grandma Theriot.



Rusted fabric. Not hard to do here in New Orleans.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Remembering Art Quilts


















Tea dyed fabrics, photo printed on fabric, small pieces of stamped rusted fabric, embrooidery and quilting. The photo is my husband's grandmother Julia Hingle.












Photo printed on fabric, vintage lace, crocheted trim and flower, vintage velvet ribbon and quilting.





Tuesday, March 23, 2010


I made this doll from a pattern called Coralee,
by Frowning Frances.








Monday, February 15, 2010

Bad hair day.


Frankie doing his usual activity of napping, woke up with messy hair.