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Topics: Baltimore Oriole Mascot, Charlie’s Portrait, Sunflower, Upcoming Projects. This is my very first blog post of 2022! I would definitely have made one earlier, but as many of you know, I caught COVID in January and have been down and out for many weeks.…

I finished up this incredible monogram today. I am calling it a Floral Gaelic Double Wedding Monogram, but in reality it’s just a double monogram that I incorporated specific themed concepts into. These include the two primary flowers and greenery from the wedding bouquet, the…

The last of the 2020 monograms is this Quilled Letter G Monogram | Gardening Theme. I think it came out pretty cute, especially considering the last minute rush to get it completed. I really like this cute little theme monogram. I’m partial to gardening and…

This Metallic Blue Strainer Flower | Acrylic Pour Painting happened because back in September I bought a beginners Acrylic Pouring Kit and it came with some strainers – among other interesting “tools.” It had a slotted strainer and a colander-type strainer with holes and not…

I have a thing for hybrid artwork. And when I say “hybrid” I mean in both the sense of multi-media as well as combining two separate and unique themes. This Paper Quilled Poppycock combines quilled poppies with a quilled peacock. Two of my favorite subjects!…

What a year 2020 has turned out to be? About a month into the lockdown, I finally got out of my funk and created this Paper Quilled Spring Bee. It was literally one of the few times over the spring that I felt creative. I…

I’m slowly getting back into the groove of quilling. Today I made a mini quilled poppy landscape. I used a design I had created a few years ago that was a full 8×10 as inspiration for this piece, not really knowing whether reducing it to…

Although I love looking at floral quillings that other people have made, I’ve never really been into making them myself. It’s not that I don’t love plants, I do! I’m just more of a quilled brain sort of person as opposed to a quilled hydrangea.…

Sometimes I make things just so that I can photograph them. That is kind of the case with these Paper Quilled Realistic Leeks. At the time of their creation, I was feeling pretty inspired by my every day surroundings. And, one of my absolute favorite…

This Quilled Floral Giant Panda was for one of my repeat customers. I believe she purchased it as a gift for a friend of hers. It is roughly 8″ x 8″ and was set inside a 12″ x 12″ frame. I love the way the…

As with most of my 2017 artwork, this Paper Quilled Broccoli was inspired by my daily life. Broccoli is one of my favorite vegetables and I just woke up one day and decided it would make a great quilled piece. At the time, I think…

During the spring of 2017, I was on a real roll creating big, beautiful quillings. One of these was this stunning Quilled Daisy Scollwork Landscape. The concept behind it was pretty simple. Find a reference image of a field of daisies to give me a…

You may or may not know, but I founded the quilling group named Contemporary Quilling. One of my former moderators, Zahra, was creating a tutorial for the group (we used to do weekly movie nights) on vortex coils. I had never really played around with…

Oh how I love this quilled white orchid lily. One of the most striking parts of this piece is how 3D it is. The images don’t really give a good sense of how much depth I achieved between the 1/4″ base “petal” and the top…