Sue entered her work in open competition at the county fair in eight of the years from 1980 through 1990 (adding the state fair, also, in 1990), winning many awards.

As the children married and left home, her work began to change.  In 1988 she started quilting on her sewing machine.  With Sue's experience in custom garments, and now quilting, it was only logical that the two fields should overlap and produce beautiful, wearable art.  Most of Sue's work now consists of commissioned quilts, art quilts and wearable art, which often involves a lot of detail work, embellishment and glitz.   Sue is a perfectionist in her work and gets great satisfaction in tackling a difficult job and doing it well.  Most of her work is very non-traditional in style and often incorporates satins, taffetas, brocades, velvets and metallics (including prismatic foil).

During the last few months, some of her work has taken on a recycling theme.  She has been visiting yard and rummage-type sales, collecting real fur coats, fancy buttons, glitzy jewelry, clothing made of fancy fabrics, garment labels, men's neckties, wool clothing and any other found items that might be used for embellishment.  These are washed or cleaned, cut apart and used to create beautiful art quilts and art garments that are environmentally friendly to land fills and fur-bearing animals.  Each item bears a label verifying that it is an original "Turee Uzette™" from Cloud Nine by Sue Faber.  Turee Uzette™ is a play on the words "to reuse it."  Those items that are for sale will also carry a hang tag explaining the concept, what parts of the garment are recycled (and possibly their origin) and how to care for the garment.

Sue has 42 years of sewing experience and has been teaching sewing and quilting at the local level for a number of years and occasionally gives talks, trunk shows and workshops for organizations.  She has taped two half-hour programs about her quilting for local public television.  If you wish to contact Sue to commission a quilt, a wearable or for any other reason, you may reach her in one of the following ways:
ADDRESS:   515 213th Street, Dyer, Indiana  46311
PHONE:   219-865-6530
mailto:cloud9quilts@gmail.com

Entering contests is one of Sue's passions.  She says, "It causes you to stretch your abilities, makes you do your best work and forces you to get the job finished."    She has been entering her quilts (and a few garments) nationally since1990, with some degree of success. A list of her accomplishments follows.