Noah Ark's - The double bed size quilt contains 50 differnt animals, all paper pieced. I designed the Ark myself and it was my first attempt to hand applique the waves of water.

Chickens, chickens, chickens - This was made for my favorite Aunt and my best quilter, Faye Turk. She loved chickens and had her kitchen decorated with them. All 96 chickens have embroidered feet and machine appliquéd beaks and prairie points for wings that flap! The green fabric looks like blades of grass and really makes the quilt cute. I inherited this quilt back when she passed away in November of 2005.

Sunbonnet Alphabet

Stack the Tiles - Purple - I simplified the 4 patch posie block to be able to teach to a quilt bee in Texas.

Mom's 80th Birthday Signature Quilt - I had guests at my Mom's 80th birthday party sign the blocks, and then I organized the rows, added the borders, and quilted this quilt. I used the magnifing attachment to get the tiny stippling done in the border...Thank you Ricky for showing us that attachment in Madison!

Finished is a Good Thing ! - I began making the applique' blocks in probably 1997 as part of a Block of the Month at my local quilt shop. As it turned out, I decided in pretty short order that I wasn't all that thrilled about applique, even though it was being done by machine. So the blocks sat until I needed to "bid" on a machine quilting job and I needed to highlight my machine quilting skills. I dug out the blocks and with only 5 of them completed, I didn't have much of a quilt. I knew that I was not doing any more applique' so I did faux applique' with just machine quilting. For the border and sashing, I cut up the pieces of fabric which were originally to be used for the applique'. The machine quilting style is called "McTavishing" named after the extraordinary machine quilter and quilting teacher, Karen McTavish (www.designerquilts.com). I won the quilting job and Karen used the quilt in her book "The Art of McTavishing" by On Word Bound Books. The quilt has won numerous awards and now hangs in my quilting studio.

Janet-Lee Santeusanio - This is a close up photo of Finished is a Good Thing!

Lady - Based on Katie Pasquini Masopust book Ghost Layers & Color Washes. When I finished this wallhanging I know I'm a quilter, this is what I'm gonna love for the rest of my life.

Starlet

Rainbow Fizz - Color variation of Y2K quilt, foundation-pieced blocks and borders, quilt-as-you-go assembly techniques

Angry Rabbit - Gray running rabbit with red eyes on a pieced green background surrounded by large pink flowers.

Rectangled Stars - Foundation-pieced

Lemon Tang

Joyful Noise - Blue pieced background with yellow/orange wavy lines, surrounded by rows of irregularly pieced black and white fabric, with points of orange. Also features a vertical row of blocks in blues and oranges suggesting horns or trumpets.

Cleo's Court

Christmas Cardinals - Hand-pieced carpenter's wheel blocks surround fussy cut cardinals. Border is a border print. All machine quilted except for center square, which is hand quilted with a snowflake design.

Anniversary Rose - I made this for my in-laws' 50th wedding anniversary. I adapted the pattern, adding an appliqued border and using solid cornerstones intead of pieced. The rose blocks are paper pieced.