Design Concept

Original photo of Yellow-billed Hornbill

Original unquilted top, 2011

This the fifth in a series of 12" x 12" miniatures made in 2020 and based on my previous original designs. This one is based on my quilt, Yellow-billed Hornbill which was pieced, appliqued, and quilted in 2011 and was based on an original photograph I took in South Africa in 2000.

A photograph of the unquilted top was was printed on cotton fabric by Spoonflower.  It was machine quilted with many different colors of thread.
Because of the reduction in scale, it often takes as long to quilt a miniature as it took to quilt the original, larger quilt. The backing and binding fabric, from my Tye-Dye collection for Benartex, was one of the fabrics used in the original 2011 quilt.

Exhibitions:

• Small Treasures, Anne Milligan Gallery, Sequim, Washington, April 30 – June 22, 2024
• Small Expressions, Northwind Art, Port Townsend, WA, November 19, 2026 - January 4, 2027

Publications

• Handi Crafts (Japan), Volume 110, 2020, p. 22