Quilts and Wall Hangings

As a lot of young girls growing up, I belonged to the Girl Scouts. We could learn almost whatever we wanted to learn, which included ...

There are six blocks in this wall hanging that are obvious pieces of artwork. Each of the hand-drawn and colored blocks were created by a ...

The idea for this quilt image came to me about 8 years ago as I was reading “The Way: Using the Wisdom of Kabbalah for ...

This wall hanging represents the work that Spiritual Directors or inner healers do. It was inspired by a friend who is a spiritual director and ...

“Redemption” is the story of a dress that would have been thrown out with the trash had not someone intervened. The dress was in a ...

Issues in our lives are not simply black and white. Some issues are gray. And then there is the occasional insight that drops in to ...

This quilt was made for a ballerina. When I began work on this art quilt, I thought about everything that is necessary for her to ...

Sometimes I feel as though I am in the middle of a storm, the “eye” of the storm. Everything around me is swirling a million ...

Elizabeth Nora Friendship: a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection. This is the reason that I like attending the church I ...

Broomskirts are my favorite daytime wear. This quilt is made from the leftover fabric of two skirts that was cut away in a downsizing effort. ...

If you notice, there are no blocks alike in the inner portion of the quilt. There are 64 blocks and each of them is arranged ...

This was by far a most difficult quilt for me. Don’t have a clue as to why, except for the teeny, tiny pieces in it. ...

Every year St. Jude’s Hospital makes a call for quilts. This was my entry for 2003.Each block represents a ride at the fair and is ...

Lincoln has been dubbed “The Star City, USA.” If I were to donate this, it would be to the City of Lincoln. I have lived ...

It was a statement about Judges who deal with issues of truth every day. The wall hanging is interwoven with imaginative portrayals of the grave ...

Quilts of this kind are made with photographs of family members or pets. This particular one is in memory of a Chocolate Lab therapy dog ...

This is an original block design by me called Paradise. I used it in this design to symbolize that the paradise of a child’s life ...

Wall hanging for a Calendar art presentation for Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, Lincoln, Nebraska. It now hangs in the Missions Services Office. Each of the plain ...

There are many layers of machine quilting each with its own different shade of gold or yellow. The different colored threads are associated with the ...

An original quilt block design to represent the surge of life which embodies everything there is. It is this life which brings forth flowers.

Have you ever felt like you were taking one step forward and two steps back in life?. Me, too. With a little help from my ...

When exhibits have been at the Sheldon Art Gallery on the University campus which are about quilts, some of them have been marvelous shows featuring ...

What is it? With the symbolism of the red fabric, one could imagine that it represents anger or rage. Yet, the lighter color is on ...

Here was a woman who was put in a position of importance at the right time. Her position meant the rescue of all of her ...

In a side thought, I also wish there were a Eucharist, so to speak, a ritual breaking of bread and drinking of wine, in remembrance ...

Androcentrism teaches us to believe God is male. It also teaches that Adam was created in God’s image, therefore, male. However, mankind of Genesis 1 ...

This Mary was a colorful woman to me. Legend abounds that she was a harlot, a sinful, fallen woman that supposedly had many flaws of ...