Melted Rachel's Zazzle Gallery

Red Rabbit was inspired by a song.

The central part of this piece is a homage to Gustav Klimt's The Kiss.

A simplified rabbit takes up the left side of this piece, the bottom half depicts a desert and dark trees cover the moon in the top right corner.

This is a centre piece for an Art Quilt, measuring 30" x 30". The centre piece is surrounded by dark green material which makes the full size 60 inches.

This piece was made with lots of fabrics, lots of embroidery, which was melted and hand sewed into, and decorated with image transfers of my own autumn photos, applied embossing metal and numerous beads.

Her hair cascades across the surface of the quilt as if Autumn wind is blowing through it.

Art Quilts are meant for decoration rather than being used as a proper bed quilt, they can't be washed but they can be spot cleaned or alternatively you could ask for advice from a reputable dry cleaner.
Art Quilts can be placed on a bed as decoration or hung.

Spring was the second seasonal Art Quilt I made.

She was made for a Spring project for a textiles group on the Internet. The brief was to make something that would chase the winter blues away.

Flowers and plants are explode into bloom in a huge tide of nature.

This centre piece is 30" x 30".

Spring is surrounded by dark green fabric which makes the dimensions of the whole piece 60 inches x 60 inches.

Art Quilts are meant for decoration rather than being used as a proper bed quilt, they can't be washed but they can be spot cleaned or alternatively you could ask for advice from a reputable dry cleaner.

Art Quilts can be placed on a bed as decoration or hung.

This textiles piece is the top of an Ottoman which was recycled, recovered and repainted.

The baby, bluebirds and nests have extra padding under them to give them more of a 3D feel.

Fluffy bits have been used to give this piece texture and depth.

This piece features in my Foundling Book and is part of the same series as Mother and Child, Father and Child, Lovers, Baby (pictured below).

The front cover of the Foundling CD book was an early photo of this textiles piece before it was sewn together.

Find out more about
the Foundling project here.

This piece is approximately 24" x 32".

Baby is a layered, embroidered and beaded textiles piece depicting a baby.

I wanted to produce a more subtle looking image and used strips of organza to bring the figure out of the background.

This piece features in the Foundling Book and is part of the same series as Mother and Child, Father and Child, Lovers, Ottoman.

Find out more about
the Foundling project here.

This piece is approximately 24" x 32".

Father and Child is a layered, embroidered and beaded textiles piece depicting a father and child.

This piece won the Stephanie Greenhalgh Award for Innovation at Tiverton Art Society's Summer 2007 exhibition and is the first textiles piece I made which depicted a man.

This piece features in the Foundling Book and is part of the same series as Mother and Child, Ottoman, Lovers, Baby.

Find out more about
the Foundling project here.

Mother and Child is approximately 24" x 32".

This piece is a layered, embroidered and beaded textiles piece depicting a mother and child.

Mother and Child is one of my favourite textiles pieces and currently hangs beside my bed.

This piece features in the Foundling Book and is part of the same series as Ottoman, Father and Child, Lovers, Baby.

Find out more about
the Foundling project here.

The Lovers is approximately 24" x 32".

This piece is a layered, embroidered and beaded textiles piece depicting a man and woman.

This piece features in the Foundling Book and is part of the same series as Mother and Child, Father and Child, Ottoman, Baby.

Find out more about
the Foundling project here.

This is a knitted piece I made from my own handspun yarn. I love the colours and texture in this image.

This is Queen Bess, a textiles piece from a set of 4 which also includes a Marie Antoinette-esque lady, a lady from the Jane Austen era and a woman wearing a bustle.

You can follow how I made these textiles pieces in the lens below.