Spray Beach Birds 11"h x 22.5"w, © August 2005 Commissioned by Pat Freitag, Potomac, MD To commission a quilt, contact clvquilts@yahoo.com size of shells collected from Spray Beach, NJ and embellished on the artwork.

Summer Scenes, Long Beach Island 11"h x 22.5"w, © August, 2000 Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Lee, Wyckoff, NJ acrylic on cotton, embroidery, trapunto, quilting & embellished with real shells collected on Long Beach Island, NJ.

Shore Birds, Long Beach Island 22.5"h x 11"w, © April 2001 Sold Updated 8/15/01: Sold at By Hand Fine Craft Gallery To commission a framed quilt or wall-hanging, contact clvquilts@yahoo.com. Shore Birds is comprised of four individual 4.75"w by 3.25"h quilts. They mounted in the same double, white matte and natural-finished oak frame as Summer Scenes. The outer dimension of the frame is 11"w by 22.5"h by 1"d. What's missing in these images is the dimensional depth of my artwork. The web image flattens out the roll of the dunes and the puff of the clouds. Each bird has been backstitched to make it 'pop' forward. Each blade of dune grass on the two middle panels is embroidered in cotton thread. The water line on the flats of the bottom quilt is edged in subtlety shimmering white and light blue rayon. The jetty and white caps are accented in iridescent white metallic thread. Also, the camera can't capture the sparkle of the glimmering, iridescent acrylics I apply to the commercial fabric. Nor does it pick up the shine from the pearls and crystals that look like bubbles in the surf. The shells are only 1/8th of an inch and are to close in color to the sand to show. But they add such and important texture and realism to the piece. If you take a walk through the bird sanctuary on the southern tip of Long Beach Island, these are four scenes you would typically see. The miniature clamshells that are stitched among the embroidered sand pipers were collected in Spray Beach, NJ where we dock our Mariner Yacht 36, Fandango.

Summer Scenes won 1st Place in the Miniatures category at Quilts Along the Bay, 2000!

Exhibitions:

• "Artistic Creations" The Clay Place Gallery, Sicklerville, November 2000
• LBI Historical Association Museum "Craft Boutique 2000" Beach Haven, NJ September 29-October 1, 6-8, 2000
• "Quilts Along the Bay" 3rd Annual Barnegat Historical Society Show, Barnegat, NJ September 9-10, 2000
• Whitman-Stafford House, Laurel Springs, NJ, March 30-April 8, 2001
• The Art Gallery, Gloucester County College, Sewell, NJ May 6-June 7, 2001
• By Hand Fine Craft Gallery, 142 Kings Highway, Haddonfield, NJ, Summer 2001
• Be Gallery, 704 Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ, fall 2001
• "Solo Exhibition" Ocean City Art Center, Ocean City, NJ October 2006

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