Birds of Paradise

 Latest quilt 68" h x 56" w.  Throw size, to lay under while watching TV, or reading, or any number of things.  Original applique design, pieced sides including original fabric designs on cotton.  I feel like the flowers are laughing, especially the one on the left!  

I'm Bringing Some Quilts to the Di Rosa Makers Market Oct 11, 2025

Queen Tut Silk Quilt 66 3/4 x 48

 

Garden of Delight 67 1/2 x 50 with original bee fabric design and wool punch birds and flower

Yellow Legal Pad with Brush 48 x 30 1/2

Bee World 47 x 30 cotton and silk with original art

Two Birds 62 3/4 x 45 Cotton, silk, origin art and wool punch birds

Magnolia From Bud to Bloom Wall Hanging 45 1/2 x 41 1/2 with magnolia photos on silk and applique

Sewing Tools Used and New 59 1/4 x 48 3/4 with original scanned art and scissor photos

Wild and Wooly Baby blanket with wool punch animals 41 1/4 x 38 1/2

Funky Bird in the Window wall hanging 20 x 24 with Bird Applique on photo of windows shot in India

Five More Original Applique T Shirts - We are in Bird World Now

 Top to Bottom

1.  Checkered Toucan:  Women's size M

2.  Blue-headed Parrot:  Women's size M

3.  Blue-legged Roadrunner:  Youth size L

4.  Funky Office Supplies Bird (original designed fabric):  Youth size M

5.  Funky Checkers Bird:  Youth size M

These are for sale $32/each + $5 shipping and will be available by appointment in my studio or online at Fine Art | Lucy Autrey Wilson Art or online at Lucy Autrey Wilson Art | Facebook

Six New Original T Shirt Designs

 All now sold with the exception of red heart funky bird.  Yeah!

Two New Bird Quilts in Process

 Top two birds will make their appearance in a Crow, Flamingo, Dodo Bird Quilt; bottom 4 Funky Birds are set to show off in a Funky Bird and Bug Quilt.  My Style continues to be messy, creative and imperfect- just like the birds!

Bird Art for MOS (Part 2 of 3)

Fabric and Photo Bird Art - top to bottom:
1.  Funky Bird Wall Hanging quilt with an applique bird, in a photo of a window shot in India and printed onto cotton fabric.
2.  Spoonbill in Florida large quilt with applique and some batik fabric bought on the same India trip.
3.  Black Bird:  Embroidered bird drawing on nylon mesh, glued over hand made paper on board.
4.  Funky Birds Going the Wrong Way:  3D digital models of fabric bird appliques, collaged with a photograph of a street arrow.
5.  Simple Photography of a Blue-footed Booby bird shot on a trip to the Galapagos.

Magnolias

Latest quilted wall hanging tells the story of white and pink magnolia flowers going from bud to bloom.  Center is a patchwork of photos printed on silk surrounded by raw edge applique of various cotton and silk fabrics showing a portion of a Magnolia flower's life cycle.  It's amazing how much time these things take!  But creating art works wonders in taking the mind off the horrors of our current government. 

Pink Diamond Owl Trees

My first wall hanging quilt! 

Some New Fabric and Paper Art

Top to Bottom:
Paper Art Collage:
"Flamingos and Yellow Roses" Paper Collage 22" w x 19 1/2" h

Fabric Art Quilts:  (photos could show the final work better)
Wild Animal Baby Quilt 49" w x 49 1/2" h
Wild Animal Baby Quilt back with various Minky fabric patches
"Under the Sea" 48 1/2" w x 71 1/2" h (includes batik fabrics bought in India, photos and various other applique art)
"Robin Walking Away From Chaos" 47" w x 68" h.  Tons of hand embroidery and a wool punch bird!

Evolution of an Bird Inspired Idea

I seem to flit from media to media, as evidenced by the evolution of the above bird art.
From the bottom to the top:
1.  A 100% digital painting done in 2005, with an old painter software program.
2.  An oil painting done in 2006, recreating (kind of) the digital painting but adding a Vincent van Gogh sky.
3.  Another oil painting, this time in 2006, with a different bird and a pink cloud in the sky.  Sold to a friend.
4.  Fabric applique of a crow drawing in 2016, on a T shirt.
5.  The same applique crow, under a pink cloud and starry night sky, now done by cutting up photos and adding various bits of ripped Mulberry papers, all glued onto 100% arches cotton watercolor paper - just finished yesterday.

A Story of Three Quilts

Quilting takes a looooong time, at least for me.  Here is the story of these three new quilts:

Top #1:  Florida Spoonbill, 85 1/2" long x 80" wide.  I started this quilt a year ago and only finished it last month.  Then it was too big for me to photograph, so I took it to the exceptional Jay Daniel at Black Cat Studio (link here), which took a bit more time.   The quilt was put together in 9 pieces to accommodate my small Bernina sewing machine, and is intended to represent the elusive spoonbill in a Florida swamp, with the blue sky above.  I stopped planning as much as I had with my earlier quilting efforts and cut and sewed most of this quilt without doing too much measuring.  I also learned to cut and sew curves.  I went to Florida in 2014, to Singer Island, looking for a Spoonbill, but never found one in the flesh so had to create my own.  The brown & blue batik fabric in the quilt was brought back from India, where I had the good fortune to buy it directly from the Mundra artist, Shakil Khatri, who designed it.  This was the 3rd quilt I made with his beautiful fabrics. Unfortunately, I sold the 1st one before getting it photographed.

Middle #2:  Amber's Marathon Quilt, 85 1/2" long x 72 1/2" wide.  This quilt contains only about 1/3 of all the winning T shirts won by my marathon running daughter.  Sewing stretchy jersey was a pain, as was the dot minky fabric backing.  To personalize the piece, I took photos on various trip to Seattle of Amber's awards and sewed those fabric photos into the quilt, along with various drawings I did of running shoes.  It came out a bit lopsided, so you can tell it is hand made!

Bottom #3:  Albion Bird in Window, 30 1/2 x 30 1/2.  Now that I'm taking a lot of photographs, my desire is to do something practical with them, such as printing them on fabric and sewing them into quilts.  This is one such example, having taking various photos of the windows in a shed in Albion.  I combined the photos then added an applique and embroidered bird before quilting the entire piece.  This is a new wall hanging format, rather than my traditional 'lounge on the couch' size.

Spoonbill Applique

Rough, not yet quilted, block for a new Spoonbill Windows of India quilt I'm working on.  I love working with raw applique (ie the fabric edges are not turned under first.)  The lazy person's way to sew!

Funky Bird T's: To Star or Not to Star

Funky Bird Ts in Process:  Continuing my exploration of washable fabric bird applique on T shirts, I'm thinking the birds are better without the star device as it tends to drown them out.  I am going to skip the iron on art transfers also, as they never work very well (iron marks always show.)  Onward!