This series started on my way back from the Quilt/Surface Design Symposium back in 1995. Driving on my return home along some country lanes, I spotted Day Lilies growing beside a farm. I stopped to take a picture. That photograph rekindled my interest in flowers (I was a Biology major in college at Purdue). Having already begun exploring how to put images from my camera in my work, I hid a few "real" photographic flowers amongst the appliqued ones in Lilies of the Field. Since then, I've explored many ways to combine realism and abstraction in my floral quilts as well as many ways of creating the backgrounds with surface-design techniques. I've generally moved from cotton to silk fabrics. Click on the image or name of the quilt for a larger image and more information on each quilt. See Landscape Series and Small Works Series for more floral quilts.

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Iris Reflections

Black and White and Poppy

The Batik and the Iris

NEW! approx 15" w x 14 h"

NEW!

SOLD

Delightful Dahlias Day and Night

Purple Spring

shown are back and front

Traveling with the Surface Design Assn 2007 show

Moonlight Sonata

Afternoon Seduction

Purple Petunias

Sunrise Serenade

sold

Red Dahlia Reflections

Dahlia Reflections #2

Presentation Rose

Dahlia Reflections #1

See at the International Quilt Market/Festival 2007at other venues in In Full Bloom IV

Duel for My Dahlias

Tropical Leaves Kaleidoscope

See at the International Quilt Market/Festival 2007 in Celebrate Spring exhibit Won Honorable Mention at IQA Chicago

Red Poppy Reflections

Hibiscus Reflections

Renewal

Hermosa Poppies

Sold

Papilio Amaryllis

Fibonacci Sunflowers

Won Best Innovative Pictorial Quilt at Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival 2005 Sold - See at Crozer-Chester Medical Center ER waiting room in Upland, PA.

See at the International Quilt Market/Festival 2007 in In Full Bloom IV

Under the Sunflowers

Lilies in the Rain

Won 3rd Place Innovative Wall Quilt AQS Quilt Show on cover of AQS 2006 Wall calendar

Orchid Fugue

Dahlias a la Mode

Won 2nd in Wall Quilts at Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival 2005

Sold

Dancing Iris

Water Ballet #5

Seen on the cover of American Quilter, Spring 2005 issue also at In Full Bloom III IQF 2006

Won 3rd place Wall Quilt at Quilt Odyssey.

Abundance of Orchids

Clown Amaryllis

SOLD

Won 3rd Place Naturescapes at International Quilt Festival 2004

Chaco Cholla

Let It Bee

won First Applique Wall Quilt Quilt Expo Wisconsin '06

At Crafts National 36, Zoller Gallery Penn State University won Award of Merit in 2002

Elle's Strawflower

Floral Romance

See how this quilt was created in the 6th Edition of Quilting Arts Magazine. SOLD

SOLD

Stargazer
Lily #2

Red Star Amaryllis

Floral Symphony #10:
Daffodil Fantasia

Orange Amaryllis

Featured on cover of issue 2 of Quilting Arts Magazine

Floral Symphony #8:
Erythrina

Floral Symphony #12: Water Lilies

Floral Symphony #6:
Irises Bathed in Light

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Floral Symphony #7:
Cape Primrose

Floral Symphony #3:
The Rose

Floral Symphony #5:
Wild Geraniums

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Floral Symphony #2:
Foxgloves

Floral Symphony #1:
Lilies of the Field

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