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New York Beauty Quilts

Serpentine Oriental Fantasy Savanna
Savanna
44" x 52" 49" Octagon
Wonderful exotic fabrics form the background for two snakes slithering through the jungle.
Subdued Japanese fabrics depict the centre of the world encircled by a dragon of good will. Inspired by a trip to Hong Kong and Japan.
Soft sun bleached looking fabrics, reminiscent of desert winds and desert sand dunes.
African Sun The Rising Sun Palette



28"x28"   37 x 46 43 x 43
Hot and exotic African fabrics explode onto the piece with the points extending right into the background, simulating the African sun.
Soft oriental fabrics makes this elegant quilt reflecting the beauty of Japan and named accordingly.
Beautiful Fossil Fern fabrics reminiscent of a painter's palette makes this colourful quilt.
Beauty in the Window Wheel of Fortune Design Study I
49 x 61 82 x 100 41"x 45"
A sampler quilt consisting of 12 different New York Beauty blocks set in an attic window setting, hence the name.
Spinning secondary blocks give movement to this quilt which reminded me of T.V.'s Wheel of Fortune.
A play on shapes and design using unusual fabrics and featuring a New York Beauty variation.
     
     
   
     

Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario
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