Shades of Purple
75" x 104"

Machine pieced, machine quilted, hand beaded. This quilt contains seventy different shades of purple fabric. The blue flowered fabric on the right and bottom border originally contained teal flowers, Kathie hand painted these flowers purple.

Celestial Star
60" x 76"

Kathie made this quilt for her oldest son, Lucas Schwarz. He will graduate in the year 2000 and that is why there are subtle millenium references in the quilt.

Bali in Abstract
73" x 90"

Kathie spent two years collecting as many different examples of the new hand dyed Bali fabrics that she could find. They are exceptional in their beauty (and not as easy to work with as normal cottons). She designed this quilt to look simple in order to have the viewer focus on color and design.

This quilt was awarded a first place ribbon in the 1996 Washington County Field Days Quilt Show in East Montpelier, Vermont. It has also been shown in the Vermont Quilt Festival in Northfield, Vermont.

Deep Blue Sea
78" x 95"

Curved piecing technique, applique, machine stitched and machine quilted. This quilt was a commision piece made as a gift for a wedding. Each fabric was cut and designed as the quilt grew and developed its own individual shape design. It is heavily quilted and took nealy 40 hours to complete the machine quilting. Shells, starfish, waves, anoemes and other ocean like images were stitched into the quilt.

The dolphins were drawn freehand and then applique stitched onto the surface of the piece. The ocean has depth as the dolphins give rise to the surface.