21 x 16
Susan Carlson’s fabric collage techniques were used for this fanciful fish. He is on a dark geometrically pieced background.
Fabric Collage
I used Susan Carlson’s techniques to create fabric collages of my cats, fish, landscapes, and architectural subjects. Slice quilts of Mississippi Ag Museum and Cinque Terre hillside in Italy are done in fabric collage.
The Conversation
24 x 24
This fabric collage is based on a photograph I took of my three cats on my headboard. Tarbaby seems to be ignoring the bossing from Rahrah (middle) while Elizabeth is being her sweet self.
Campfire
24 x 24, later framed
Private collection
This imaginary campfire scene was displayed at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, CO, in a fiber art exhibit of scenes the pioneers might have seen as they traveled west on the Oregon Trail.
Green Fish
20 x 19
Susan Carlson’s fabric collage techniques were used for this fanciful fish. He is on a blue organically pieced background that might suggest underwater.
Blanche
15 x 18
Private collection.
Fabric collage using white/beige novelty fabrics and variegated stitching to depict a fluffy white cat.
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Cinque Terre
24 x 52
Slice quilt fabric collage as the left one-third of a tryptich with Cathy Reininger and Rita Warnock.
Susan Carlson’s techniques were used to make my section.
The tryptich won a blue ribbon in the Dallas Quilt Show 2022, and a red ribbon at Gulf States Quilting Association show April 2022.
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The tryptich at GSQA show
Cinque Terre in Lucile Parker Gallery at William Carey University
Closeup
Original divided reference photograph
The Window Watchers
23 x 28
Private Collection
The Window Watchers depicts Tarbaby, Rahrah, and Elizabeth on a sunny table. The quilt won Best of Show in South Mississippi Art Association’s 2019 show.
Elizabeth, My Almost Perfect Cat
34 x 25
Elizabeth was started in a week-long class with Susan Carlson in Portland, Maine, in 2017. Learning Susan’s techniques led to many more art quilts featuring animals.
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