Size: 12 3/4" h x 9 3/4" w
Materials: Free motion thread painting on canvas
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2010

View from the "South Window" of our cabin on Turtle Creek Farm. A vintage jar filled with just cut forsythia brings some of the shades of yellow inside.

Size: 15" h x 12" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2009

This old weathered birdhouse with rusty metal roof has been "home" to a new family of birds each year.  It sits in a pasture at the edge of a wooded hillside at Turtle Creek Farm.

Size: 21" h x 17 1/2" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2007

Wild fragrant honeysuckle with its delicate petals growing in front of this old weathered Tennessee barn makes a strong color contrast.

Size: 15" h x 14" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2007

Along this rolling hillside of Barnard, Vermont sits this weathered red barn with white trim. Ellen and her family have a collection of horse, cattle and chickens. There are a few barns on the property where they also board horses and enjoy giving horse backing riding lessons. It is always fun to drive by and see who may be out in the field grazing.

Size: 12" h x 15" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2007

Fran's Barn is located in Gudger, Tennessee, a small community outside of Madisonville. This old barn sitting on 40 acres has held up better than the house. It was once part of the Patty family farm and still holds many wonderful family memories.

Size: 18" h x 20" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2007

On one of the many backroads of Tennessee, covered by fast growing weeds, this barn with its "Hidden Hinge" sits precariously close to the newly expanded road. A little piece of roadside history surrounded by new homes.

Size: 30 1/2" x 25"
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2005

"Mending Fences" was inspired by the next door neighbors horses who always seem to find an undetected break in the fencing to come over and enjoy our pasture.

Size: 32" x 27 1/2"
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2004

Legend has it that this seaside Victorian house is haunted. In the late 1800‚s Celeste Eppes in an attempt to make her husband jealous, lied about his best friend having an interest in her. Her husband confronted him in the parlor of the house. He of course denied any wrongdoing, but was shot with a bullet through his heart. The truth came out during the trial and the town shunned Celeste. She died a few years later during childbirth. People say you can see her peering out through the windows.

Size: 18.5" x 20"
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2003

The tall and slender Southern Blue Flag Iris surrounded the stone foundation of this weathering gray barn in Franklin, North Carolina.

Size: 36" x 25"
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2003

This regal red and gray barn, belonging to the Stigall family graces the countryside in Indiana. It has been "home" to Cricket, their Appaloosa horse, along with other critters; Holsteins, brown jerseys, cats and some mice. Beth Stigall, who is also a quilter, says this of her barn, she still has a touch of dignity - reminds me of an old lady still adding a dab of rouge and perfume!