This gallery is a collection of items I have made that are either not for sale or are in private collections. I wanted you to be able to see some of my work. Click on any item for more details.
Mom in Red Scarf
This photo was taken of my mother when she was about 90 years old. One day while visiting her I just wrapped my red scarf around her neck and snapped her photo. She had Alzheimer’s and passed away a couple of years after this photo was taken. In the original photo there was a…
Hadiya
Hadiya is a piece that I made from a photograph taken from one of my husbands mission trips to Africa. You can see the original photo on my commissions page. It is about 22″ x 26″ or so. Hadiya means “girl” in Swahili.
B Bear
B Bear is in Old English Sheepdog. I did this piece when I took a class from Jennifer Day in New Mexico. It is a thread painting, about 9″ x 12″. Sold to a private collector.
Bruiser
Bruiser was my daughter’s cat. I’m not a cat person but Bruiser was the sweetest cat I have ever known. It is a thread painting, about 16″ x 20″. It now belongs to her.
Tumbling Blocks Baby Quilt
This is an example of a baby quilt that I made for some friends of mine who were having their first baby. The pattern is called Tumbling Blocks or Baby Blocks.
Bittersweet Sixteen
Bittersweet Sixteen is a play on the “sweet sixteen” idea. It is a photograph of my mother Maxine when she was about 16 years old. Her future is ahead of her and she looks joyous. The bittersweet part comes as not knowing that her later years would be “bitter” with Alzheimer’s disease. …
Optimism in the Spring
Optimism in the Spring is the second in a series that I did for my senior exhibit at Oklahoma State University in 2010. It is a portrait of my parents, Homer & Maxine wedding photograph. My dad was in the Army Air Corp. They got married in the spring and had the optimism of…
Hope for the Future
Hope for the Future is the third in a series called “Forgotten Memories” that I did for my senior exhibit at Oklahoma State University in 2010. It is a thread painted portrait of me and my siblings. It is about 16″ x 24″ and appliqued onto a pieced background.
Enveloping Darkness
Enveloping Darkness is the fourth and last in a series that I did for my senior exhibit at Oklahoma State University in 2010. It is a thread painted portrait of my mother when she was about 82 years old. By that time the Alzheimer’s disease had enveloped her mind in darkness and was slowly…
Forgotten Memories Series
In 2010 I was graduating from Oklahoma State University’s art department. My senior exhibit was a series of four photographs that I did in a technique called ‘thread painting’. I take a photograph and re-create it using thread and fabric. This series represents periods in my mother’s life beginning when she was about 16…
Eastern Bluebird
SOLD!! This Eastern Bluebird is a one-of-a-kind thread painting. It is NOT computerized but is a free motion, hand guided piece using rayon and polyester threads. It has an oak frame, matted and a hook on the back for hanging. It is 13″ x 16″.
Hiding Tiger
This tiger is a one-of-a-kind thread painting. It is NOT computerized but is a free motion, hand guided piece using rayon and polyester threads. It has an oak frame and a hook on the back for hanging. It is 11″ x 12″ Private Collection