Welcome Poinsettias combines a traditional Christmas palette with a layered patchwork frame. The embroidered center features poinsettias, leaves, berries, and the word “Welcome,†creating a clear focal point before the design expands outward into more graphic piecing. A wide black border immediately surrounds the embroidery and gives the center strong definition. Beyond that, red and […]
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Santa Train: A Redwork Journey to the North Pole
Santa Train is all about line and detail. The entire winter scene is drawn in red machine embroidery across a pale fabric ground, creating the effect of an illustrated holiday sketch translated into thread. A steam locomotive fills the foreground, pulling a long train through snow-covered evergreens toward a small village in the distance. Stars […]
Read MoreSanta in Flight: Metallic Embroidery Against a Winter Night Sky
Santa in Flight is centered on a night-sky embroidery that uses contrast more than color. A deep black background allows the white and metallic stitching to carry the scene: Santa’s sleigh and reindeer sweep across the center while a small snowy village, clouds, a crescent moon, and elaborate poinsettia motifs frame the composition. The metallic […]
Read MoreChristmas Stag: A Winter Woodland Embroidery in Red, Cream and Black
Christmas Stag is built around line rather than patchwork. The central deer and surrounding winter imagery are created with dense machine embroidery, using black outline stitching almost like pen-and-ink drawing across a cream fabric ground. The design includes holly, berries, pinecones, evergreen branches, distant mountains, and small stands of trees. White embroidery adds another layer […]
Read MoreWelcome Fall Banner: A Tall Autumn Wall Hanging in Orange and Gold
Welcome Fall Banner is designed for the kind of wall space that is often hardest to fill: a tall, narrow vertical area where a square or horizontal quilt would feel out of place. The elongated format gives the piece a strong presence while keeping the width compact. The embroidered center spells “WELCOME” from top to […]
Read MoreFarm Scene: A Harvest Festival Framed in Red and Black
Farm Scene began with an embroidered rural vignette packed with small details: a barn marked “Harvest Festival”, a vintage truck, pumpkins, cornstalks, fencing, trees, and chickens. The black linework gives the center panel the look of an illustrated sketch, so the surrounding fabrics were chosen to provide strong structure without competing with that detail. A […]
Read MoreHoneycomb: A Modern Queen Quilt in Charcoal, Gold and Cream
Honeycomb began with a very simple unit: a 2-inch square. Repeated hundreds of times and shifted gradually through charcoal, gray-green, gold, yellow, taupe, cream, and pale blush, those small pieces build into a much larger set of concentric diamonds. The finished quilt measures 90″ x 90″, giving it enough width and length for a standard […]
Read MoreFarm Harvest: An Autumn Landscape Framed in Patchwork
Farm Harvest started with a small embroidered autumn landscape: pumpkins in the foreground, fields and fencing beyond them, and a barn tucked into the distance. The scene has a quiet, rural character, so the surrounding patchwork was designed to reinforce that warmth without overpowering the embroidery. The center panel is framed first with a narrow […]
Read MoreFading Hearts: A King Size Quilt in Neutrals, Grey, and Red
“Fading Hearts” is built around a simple idea: let the heart blocks gradually shift from light neutrals into deeper browns, gray, and black, while a bright red chain pattern holds the composition together. The hearts move through ivory, tan, taupe, gray, brown, and black across a pale grey background. That gradual change in value gives […]
Read MoreBright Blocks: A Colorful Blue and Purple Patchwork Quilt
“Bright Blocks” began with the contrast between saturated floral prints and a crisp white background. The quilt uses blue, teal, purple, green, and red blocks arranged in a staggered pattern, with small red accent squares creating a second rhythm across the surface. A deep blue border contains the brighter center and gives the design a […]
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