About Me

Creating Quilts

For me, creating a quilt is using color and fabric to create an illusion or feeling. Many of my quilts from the mid 1990’s through 2010 were 3 D perspectives. I was inspired by M. C. Escher and Katie Pasquini-Masopust.

I began quilting in 1983, while living in NJ. At the time I had 2 small children, and soon had another! I found the support of a local quilt guild and quilt shops to be my incentive to try new things. At that time my projects were mostly hand pieced and hand quilted.

  • My First Quilt attempt.
  • My First Full Size Quilt
Both were hand pieced and hand quilted

Upon moving back to Pennsylvania in late 1989, I was lucky to have a room to devote to my craft, and had a bit of time while the children went off to school. This was the period when I moved to the Headache, and Incongruity phase of my quilting. I was now doing much work on the sewing machine but designing on Freezer Paper. I called it Frigid Piecing

At that point I began teaching ‘on the road’, doing Guild Lectures and Workshops. It was becoming a small success but then I went back to work full time as a Computer Science professor. The children were older and eventually needed a college education. This put a dent into my quilting time. After retiring in 2012 I again had time and space to design and play again. I hope you enjoy my quilts.

Samples of my work

Headache

Headache Quilt, using my Frigid Piecing Technique won a prize at a local Art competition.

Incongruity

The rods and bars cross thru cubes, but are they stacked or are they flat?

Murphy Memory Quilt

Murphy Family Memories

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