Crusaders and knights have always fascinated me, so I decided to make a quilt with this subject.
Technics: painting on fabric with pastelloni oil, hand appliqué and machine-rehearsed at some points, hand and machine quilting by hand.
Materials: American cotton fabrics, batik, silk, lace, pastelloni oil, soft wire, metal and Madeira rayon, silk upholstery.
In: Medieval
Participated in the 13th Biennial Triveneta of Sacred Art in Venice. Donated to the Holy Church.
Technics: painting on fabric with pastelloni oil, hand appliqué, machine quilting freehand.
Materials: cotton, batik fabrics, nylon tents, pastelloni oil, Madeira rayon threads. Padding Plume.
In: Sacred
Babies or angels? What is important is the feelings they express: peace, joy, buoyancy…
First prize in the international competition MEDinITALY titled “A Passion for Art Nouveau!”
Techniques: Fabric painting with oil paint sticks, hand and machine appliqué, free-hand machine quilting.
Materials: American patchwork cottons, double-yarn cotton, and batiks; laminated, rayon and transparent mono-filament threads.
In: Sacred
Each participant chose a poem to interpret for the national competition “Poetry, Form and Color” at the Manualmente Fair, Turin. My choice was “My Shy Angel” by Tommaso Putignano; I wrote the poem on the back of the quilt and went over the writing with my sewing machine.
Prize for the “Best Use of Color”.
Techniques: Fabric painting with oil paint sticks on double-yarn cotton, hand appliqué, hand and machine stitching, hand and machine quilting.
Materials: Batiks and double-yarn cotton; metallic, multicolored and rayon threads.
In: Sacred
This work is part of “The Gallery of Invisible Cities” organized by the Italian National Guild Quiltitalia. The competition theme was a journey through the cities mentioned by the writer Italo Calvino. My quilt is a detail taken from an altar piece in the church of St. Andrew in Portogruaro “The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple” by Giovanni Martini (painted 1512-1513). The entire altar piece measures 381 by 285 cm, but the part I chose to reproduce (handmaidens with a basket and doves) is about 100 by 200 cm. The greatest difficulty was matching the green and violet of the gowns, which are identical to the painting of the same name by Carpaccio.
Techniques: Fabric painting with oil paint sticks on double-yarn cotton, hand appliqué. I used bleach in order to obtain the shading of the green silk creating the illusion of movement in the gowns. Free-hand machine quilting and hand quilting in a few areas.
Materials: Double-yarn cotton, batiks, silk, and cotton; rayon and transparent mono-filament thread.
In: Sacred
This quilt required an exhaustive search of tissues to get all the nuances that were used. It has been inspired by an Antoniozzo Romano’s fresco. Antoniozzo Romano was a painter coming from the school of Piero della Francesca and his fresco is on the Pantheon, Rome.
Finalist in “International Quilt Association-Celebrate Spring!” – Houston
Finalist in the “Pacific International Quilt Festival” – XVII Quilt competition “The Adventure begins”
Technics: painting on double twisted cotton with oil sticks, hand-sewn and rehearsed in some places by machine, quilted by hand or machine.
Materials: American cotton fabrics, batiks, rayon fabric, wire and soft.
In: Sacred
I had a cross stich pillow but my dog eated into. I changed some colours and part of the original drawing.
First prize at International Competition ” Mediterraneo: mare di colori ed emozioni” (President of judges M. James). Second place of Country Italy at the World Quilt Competition – New England
Technics: mosaic patchwork made of approximately 24000 squares (cm. 1,25×1,25). Hand and machine quilted.
Materials: batik, cotton fabrics.
In: Fantasy
What could be nicer than a picnic on the beach with her friends and dream of times gone?
Birmingham – The Festival of Quilts.
Finalist in the competition “The International Quilt Festival – Celebrate Spring!”
Technics: Hand-painted on double twisted cotton, sewing everything by hand and rehearsed in some places with the full point by machine, quilted by machine.
Material: silk, calico American Association for the sky and cotton for the parts painted. Rayon and metallic threads.
In: Fantasy
Beautiful view of the seabed with fish, corals and algae.
First prize at the National Competition “Transparencies of marine flora and fauna”
Technics: painting on silk and alcantara with pastelloni oil, quilting machine.
Materials: Batiks, silk, cloth upholstery, wire and soft rayon.
In: Fantasy
This quilt was created in 2012 for the international competition “Scents from the Orient”; works were to be made in traditional patchwork with an oriental theme. I was inspired by the dragon, the sign of the Chinese zodiac from that period. I used the classic Double Wedding Ring pattern for the background and reverse-appliquéd the dragon which was prepared entirely beforehand. All the background fabrics are original Japanese prints.
First prize at the international competition “Scents from the Orient” – Italy – traditional category.
Techniques: Double wedding ring pattern, reverse appliqué, quilting with mono-filament transparent thread.
Materials: Japanese fabric, and batiks; metallic, rayon and multicolored threads.
In: Fantasy