Gallery - Other Works
What can I say? These are the ones that aren't a series but I love them and want you to see them.
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Culebras de Guatemala
Culebras de Guatemala was begun in a class with Carol Bryer Fallert. It incorporates
Guatemalan fabrics in the base and border. The piece is pieced and
appliqued by machine. It is machine quilted. 40" x 60" Machine pieced, machine appliqued, machine
quilted, hand embroidered and embellished.
Displayed at the Pacific International Quilt
Festival, CA - October 2005. Third place, Art quilts, Montgomery County Fair, Maryland -
August 2005.
Notecards of this piece are available.
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Taste & See: Jacobean Dream
I have worked on this piece off and on for many years.
The pieced background came first. And, on its own it told me it wasn’t done. Then, I added the black border.
Still, it said it wasn’t done. Finally, with the addition of the Jacobean floral (and grapes) it said what
I wanted. I wanted to fill the “empty” space with quilting, but not just any design.
Another Jacobean floral design worked well to fill the space. 35” x 34” wide. This quilt was displayed at the
Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in February 2008.
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Witness
I began working on “Witness” shortly after the
United States invaded Iraq. I wanted an art quilt piece that would
represent my own dissent with the war. In early February, Guernica
captured my attention as the tapestry copy in the UN had a curtain
hung over it. Officials
decided it was inappropriate for Colin Powell to make statements about
Iraq in front of that image. I had my source. Rather than try to
recreate the whole image, I chose to
focus on the section that includes a very traditional quilt block
design – the attic window.
While this piece was initially about Iraq, the
scope expanded when I came to the point of quilting. Over the past two
years, genocide has occurred in many places in the world. I have
recorded the countries and parties involved through the quilting
lines, writing out the names of these places and parties. Machine pieced, hand appliqued, hand embroidered, machine quilted.
Quilt in private collection.
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Tropical Haze
This quilt was the result of a day with Judy
Lundberg. I enjoyed the piecing process and the machine applique. The
quilt is heavily machine quilted with tropical flowers. Machine pieced, machine appliqued, hand beaded, machine quilted. Displayed at the
Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza - September 2004.
Detail.
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Lynden, WA
Lynden, Washington was made in
response to the Friendship Star Quilters Guild challenge to make a
quilt of a manhole cover with a Japanese fabric. The quilt could be of
a manhole cover that was included in
Shirley MacGregor's books or a
different city or a fictitious town. Instead of depicting the manholes
that don't stay put in Georgetown, Washington, DC, Margreta designed a
manhole depicting her hometown, Lynden, Washington. The design is
based on the town logo. Margreta used water soluble stabilizer to
capture First Christian Reformed Church and the windmill. 36" x 38"
Quilt displayed at AQS 2003 Quilt Exposition, Nashville, TN, August
2003. Machine pieced, machine quilted, machine and hand embroidered, hand
appliqued and hand beaded.
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Dreamkeeper
Dreamkeeper was made for the Children's Inn of the
National Institutes of Health. I
was asked to participate in this endeavor. I was given one of
the fabrics used in the quilt and asked to create a wall hanging size
piece that thematically related to "Sweet Dreams". This quilt
was the result. The title of the piece is based on a Langston Hughes
poem of the same name that captured some of the spirit of this quilt.
An original design, I photographed a boat in
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and used that to develop this boat. Machine pieced, hand appliqued, machine quilted. Detail.
Notecards of this piece are available.