Bargello Quilts Photo Gallery
Contemporary Quilt Wall Hangings

What You’ll Get Inside This Crafts Series
The four books of The Kick-Start Creativity Series are primarily photos of my work in the areas of metal (gold and silver and semi-precious stones), wood (rare, exotic woods with semi-precious stones), and fiber (bargello technique for wall hangings and bed quilts) over the years (1975 – 2012) to hopefully give you ideas for your own work.

Bargello Quilts Photo Gallery book provides pictures of quilts and more. Bargello quilt designs is one aspect of contemporary quilting. It's interesting that these quilts were originally designed as baby quilts but then seemed so unusual that I began using these contemporary quilts as quilt wall hangings.

Thank you for being interested in my work. I had a lot of fun creating it and am now having a lot of fun sharing it.

About the Artist
I guess you could say I came to doing art work by the back door. My formal schooling was in the area of clinical psychology . . . Bradley University, B.S. 1965 and M.A. 1969. But even as a child I wanted to grow up to be a jeweler. I was always fascinated by pretty stones. I would pry them out of old pieces of costume jewelry and squirrel them away in a small, fuzzy, green velvet box lined with cotton and have fantasies about whether or not they were real.

My professional writing career began in 1980 with the publication of Jean’s Arizona Fan Palm, cutting directions for a 3.2 carat citrine (you can see it in the Handcrafted Jewelry Photo Gallery book in this Kick-Start Creativity series), in the January issue of the Lapidary Journal Gem Cutting Magazine. Many years later I was submitting step-by-step articles for original jewelry designs to various international magazines.

And now, 2012, I’m enjoying the writing and publishing of various kinds of books for Kindle. I’ll be 70 years old this year. It’s been quite a ride. I hope you enjoy my offerings.