Peninsula Fiber Artists

Evette Allerdings Port Angeles
eallerdings@gmail.com
808-397-6040

33” x 26 ¼”
2021
$950.00

Fracking, the word itself sounds offensive. I met 2 elderly women who were complaining that they were experiencing multiple earthquakes in their respective towns, in different States. They had previously never had earthquakes. They suspected it was from Fracking. I used colored resist, dyes, and salt techniques to create different layers and to differentiate the disturbed rocks from the sediment. The depiction of the seismograph is machine embroidered. It is based on a real earthquake caused by fracking. Rhythm can destroy.

Evette Allerdings Port Angeles
eallerdings@gmail.com
808-397-6040

43” x 26 ¾”
2021
$2,000

Makani, a young man who is passionate about propagating native Hawaiian plants. He is so gifted and shares his love of nature generously. This silk painting is inspired by a lei he made as a gift, using leaves. So much work to collect the leaves, cut them to size, then weave them together, to create this rainbow. So much Aloha. I am touched by his light.

Evette Allerdings Port Angeles
eallerdings@gmail.com
808-397-6040

28” x 33 ⅜”
2021
NFS ($1,400)

How much longer will earth survive. Will the ripple effect be gentle like dipping your finger in a quiet pond or jarring like a strong earthquake? Juxtaposing silk painting with Sashiko embroidery, I painted dying hosta leaves, to represent earth, still beautiful in the autumn of its life. The embroidered ripples are not meant to be even. Each stitch represents earth’s inhabitants intersecting and connecting. All will be affected, at different times and in many ways; rhythms of life.

Jeri Auty Port Ludlow
jeriauty@gmail.com
360-390-8170

44” x 51.5”
2021
NFS

The sun shines brightly in my Fantasy Forest.  This piece was inspired by a workshop taught by Hilde Morin called “Your Own Forest.” At this workshop I first learned curved piecing and became hooked.  My wonky, colorful trees are like no trees I have ever seen, except in my dreams. They emerged and grew.  This piece also gave me the opportunity to use my tabletop quilting machine for the first time, and again, I am hooked!

Jeri Auty Port Ludlow
jeriauty@gmail.com
360-390-8170

30” x 14”
2021
$75

The heart, the rhythm of life.  I was diagnosed with Atrial Flutter and Fibrillation in March of 2020 just as the pandemic was starting. During this last year I have developed a greater appreciation for life and the heart, especially mine.  A year later, with some new meds and a procedure to rewired my heart, I am mostly back in sinus rhythm.  This quilted piece is a homage to the many EKGs I have had and what sinus rhythm looks and feels like to me, rhythm and light.

Jeri Auty Port Ludlow
jeriauty@gmail.com
360-390-8170

55.5” x 72”
2013
NFS

This was one of my first pieces and was inspired by a selection of hand dyed color fabrics I received as a gift from my first quilt teacher.  I carried these 8 fabrics around for years, basically afraid to cut into them.  This pattern seemed right and by the time I was finished, only scraps remained of the dyed fabric.  This pieced quilt was custom quilted by Gretchen Monti of Flower Mound, Texas who quilted each star with matching thread, the colors showing through on the back of the quilt as well.

Linda Carlson Sequim
lindacarlson@earthlink.net
(360) 504-3498

60” x 56”
$182

Light is both literal and figurative: it reveals strength as well as weakness, compassion and love as well as hatred, and truth and goodness as well as the evil in our part of the world and in society as a whole. Light can inspire us to relieve darkness. Encircle this piece, allowing your steps, even the wave of an arm, to give the light-filled fabric its own rhythm and consider how you can be a source of light, or share the light that others create.

Kathie Cook Sequim
kathie.l.cook@gmail.com
907-978-7030

34” x 47.5”
2021
NFS

I was excited about moving into 2020. Like they always say, “Hindsight is 2020.”  I challenged myself to take one memory from each month and translate it to fabric, using a variety of surface design techniques. (Piecing, appliquéing, painting with acrylic, hand dyeing fabric, painting on fabric with dye) No one knew in January that we would be crashing into a global pandemic. Regardless, as the year progressed, I continued to be focused on the light and the hope of this new decade. Light, both metaphorically and literally.  I hope you enjoy my look back at 2020.

"The real subject of every painting is light." Claude Monet

Kathie Cook Sequim
kathie.l.cook@gmail.com
907-978-7030

38.5” x 27”
2020
NFS

One of my favorite composers is John Williams because of his use of tonal layering and interesting rhythms. I thought about him during the construction of this quilt. The layering of colors, juxtaposed to give pops of  rhythmic accents like Williams does with the different timbre of instruments and syncopated rhythms.

The inspiration for my quilt came from the ever-changing colors of the spring and summer skies and the words of Henri Matisse:

"Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain."

Leslie Dickinson Port Townsend
Ldakm@msn.com
503-705-1497

20" x 26"
2021
$400.00

This Lighthouse tower first exhibited its fixed white light, which could be seen for up to 13 miles, on December 15, 1879.

Hand dyed cottons, collaged, fused and stitched.

Leslie Dickinson Port Townsend, WA
Ldakm@msn.com
503-705-1497

42" x 54"
$225.00
2021

Statement: Sun dyed blocks combined with commercial cotton solids. Improvisational piecing and stitched.

Leslie Dickinson Port Townsend
Ldakm@msn.com
503-705-1497

10.5" x 45"
$225.00
2021

Botanical printed silk, framed with commercial cotton fabric and Juncos printed with Artist Transfer Paper

Donna Lee Dowdney Bainbridge Island
donnaleedowdney@gmail.com
(360) 490.0176

20” x 24”
$700.00

“Entering the Vortex” began as a fractal image I generated on a computer and transferred to fabric. The embellished design reveals a spinning, turbulent flow of colors rotating around the center.

Donna Lee Dowdney Bainbridge Island
donnaleedowdney@gmail.com
(360) 490-0176

39” x 29”
$1,800.00

"Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Donna Lee Dowdney Bainbridge Island
donnaleedowdney@gmail.com
(360) 490.0176

24” x 30”
$1,000

Wandering Microcosm explores simulated microscopic shapes, textures, intricately layered networks, and nuances of colors. Organic growth fascinates me as I view designs exploding, imploding, spiraling, branching, and wandering. My designs simulate the universe at a microscopic level.

Liisa Fagerlund Sequim
fagerlund@hotmail.com
360-460-8527

59" x 26"
2018
$1800

Patches of bright paint, brushed on to cover graffiti, combine with the patina of decay and growth to adorn the luminous walls of historic Fort Worden.  Hand-dyed and commercial cotton, hand embroidery, free-motion stitching.

Liisa Fagerlund Sequim
fagerlund@hotmail.com
360-460-8527

59" x 26"
2018
$1800

With peeling surfaces and weathered layers, fortification walls are revealed and concealed.  Hand-dyed and commercial cotton, hand embroidery, free-motion stitching.

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry Port Townsend
caryl@bryerpatch.com
360-385-2568

64” x 84”
2015
$18,000

This quilt is a celebration of pattern and color. The design grew out of a series of abstract sketches, loosely based on some original, spiral quilting patterns that I have used in many of my quilts. Some of the fabrics were hand dyed in gradations. Others were painted in gradations, resulting in more visual texture. The free-motion quilting was all done freehand, in many different patterns and dozens of different thread colors, matching the background color in some areas and adding contrast in others.

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry Port Townsend
caryl@bryerpatch.com
360-385-2568

48” x 48”
2016
$14,500.00

This design was inspired by a small photo of a green moth which I had saved for many years in my “inspiration” file. Rather than copy the photo, I studied the colors and patterns of the moth, analyzing what had made me want to save the photo in the first place. Then I used some of these patterns and colors to create a completely abstract design. Some of the fabrics were hand-dyed. The rest are from various collections I have designed for Benartex. The quilting creates additional patterns and shading to complement the overall design.

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry Port Townsend, WA
caryl@bryerpatch.com
360-385-2568

49” x 49”
2016
$6,400

This design grew out of a series of sketches I made in Corel Draw, using crescent shapes and ellipses. I chose the colors to create the illusion that the shapes were partially transparent. The background is divided into light in the top right corner and dark in the lower left corner. I decided that my usual, elaborate, decorative quilting might detract from the design, so I quilted the whole thing very simply with curving parallel lines using dark purple thread in the dark area and light purple in the light corner.

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry Port Townsend
caryl@bryerpatch.com
360-385-2568

24” x 39”
2021
$3500.00

In my ongoing effort to simplify my work, I decided to design a series of pieces that combined freeform zigzags, circles, and a few freeform curves. I drew the whole design in Corel Draw and had it printed by Spoonflower.com. I chose to limit my palette to cool colors, green, blue, purple, and a little chartreuse. As I arranged the shapes in the design, I made the areas where they overlapped into separate shapes and chose duller colors in those shapes to create the illusion that all the shapes are transparent. I quilted the black lines, and the lime green shapes with a regular sewing machine foot using heavy, #30 top-stitching thread. In the rest of the quilt, I used free-motion quilting with many different colors of thread and several different patterns, including circles combined with meanders, zigzags, and pebbles.

Sue Gale Port Townsend
msgale63@gmail.com
(530) 941-4242

16” x 18”
2020
$275

Ice dyed and commercial fabric pieced and stitched.  Hand sewn beadwork. 

Sue Gale Port Townsend
msgale63@gmail.com
(530) 941-4242

25.5” x 22” 
2014/2021 
NFS

Original piece was inspired from taking a Jean Wells class.  Always felt it needed a little something more.  Added background pieces for a more visual effect.  Commercial fabric pieced and stitched.

Sue Gale Port Townsend
msgale63@gmail.com
(530) 941-4242

20”  x 20” 
2021
$275

Ice dyed and commercial fabric.  Hand sewn beadwork.

Joyce Brustad Gordon Nordand
2swedishchicks@gmail.com
503-869-2773

18” x 18” x 6”
2021
NFS

The change of seasons in the Salish Sea with its cycles of nature are observed and determined by the rhythm of the light. Salish Sea Trio explores that rhythm of light with Pacific Coast Oysters, Spot Prawns and Dungeness Crab.

Dungeness crab take cover in the kelp, affected by the rhythm of the tide, emerging only in the slight ripple of light to feed.

Spot prawns living in the shadows in the darkest depths of the sea receive a rude awakening as they break the surface in a chaotic reaction to the light.

Oysters revealed in shallow water are easily retrieved and featured as “oysters on the half shell.”

Joyce Brustad Gordon Nordand
2swedishchicks@gmail.com
503-869-2773

60” x 40”
2020
NFS

Under the surface of the Salish Sea lie tangles of kelp responding to currents with a rhythmic dance; their fronds catching the silvery light of the moon and sun. No one views the dance of fronds and stipe until a storm tears the holdfast anchor from its perch and presents the hidden beauty onto a sandy beach.

Erica Iseminger Chimacum
eeisemi@gmail.com
360-732-0562

22” x 14”
2020
$300.00

While walking at the beach as the tide went out, the patterns made in the sand by the flowing water became the inspiration for this shape resisted indigo piece.

Pat Herkal Port Townsend
patherkal@gmail.com
360-821-1087

12" x 12"
2020
$400

The Crack that Lets the Light In - an homage to Leonard Cohen whose words have resonated with me for many years. Discharged silk velvet, upholstery fabric, embroidery, beadwork, Swarovski crystals on paper on canvas. Hand Stitched.