8 Years Good Luck; 2013. 61 x 61 cm. collage of painted coffee, tea, egg yolk, and sugar; Chinese lycees and currency hole punched chads; embroidery.

Began back in 2005. Between then and finish - went to nursing school, raising three kids, became an RN, started quilting, got a nursing job that enabled us to move to germany, left my American sewing machine in the states, and due to not having a sewing machine, finished this piece.