Last month, I was privileged to be able to finish sewing a baby quilt for Darcy Anne Ramos, who lived only 14 days. The family asked me to make a 'family tree' quilt with all seven children's names and their own embroidered on it. In the picture below, I had just finished piecing the top. In the picture above, you see Darcy Anne under the blanket with her special square on top. Her block was the only one with blanket stitching and ribbon on her name leaf. I used a block from Quilter's Cache called, Baby bud for the blocks on point, and designed my own coordinating block to allow for a 'tree' pattern. The idea for leaves for the names came from the need to have something to embroider the names on that didn't have such a busy background print. Darcy Anne had trisomyie 18 so we knew she would not live long, but still it was so very sad to have to say good-bye. Please keep her family in your prayers! The family put her foot prints on her block after she was born which made this a very special quilt indeed. If you would like to read more about the story of this incredible family and their baby, check out www.darcyanne.weebly.com. The top two photos were taken by Shona Cole. She is a fabulous artist and photographer. See her work at http://shonastudio.blogspot.com/.
It took me six months to sew this dress! It includes french puff sleeves, cartridge pleats, six rows of hand sewn bias trim eight rose corsages and six rows of ruffles plus a very complicated bertha coller. She was one of the runner's up in the Most Beautiful Victorian Lady contest at Dicken's On the Strand in Galveston last year. Doesn't she look beautiful?
This is the first quilt I ever finished. It is queen size and hand-quilted.
An up close view of handquilting 8 continuous tulips on my Ohio Star quilt.
This was the first banner "sample" of 12 names of God banners that I made for Grace Community Church. Shannon Mucha is the artist who drew the pictures that I had in mind for each name. Hopefully, I will get pictures of the actual finished banners on here soon. (Check out Shannon's website at the link on my blog page.)
I sewed this picture of Jesus comforting a praying man for Donna Dickey's husband. Mike Orr drew an outline line drawing and I sort of 'soft-sculptured' this picture. Their original idea was just a flat applique, using her husband's clothes, but I got to playing around with the clothes and realized I could do an actual soft sculpture. The result was so powerful! It made me cry every time I looked at it. I call it "Forgiven".
