Wedding Flowers - Quilting this for friend that got married. The backing is memory quilt from the after rehearsal dinner and wedding shower

Stars - I began this quilt as part of a class taken at the Nashville Quilt Show in 2007. I finished it in April of 2008 and gave it to a dear friend of mine for her 50th birthday. The class I took was with Bethany Reynolds "Stack N Wack" Quilts

pink pigs - Leslie saw the applique design on the internet and I drew the pattern for the applique based on that. I added the pieces on pig print fabrics between since she had been collecting them and wanted to use them in the quilt. I don`t use pink much in my own quilts, but this is her favorite color. Her boyfriends mother hand quilted it.

Transportation - Back in the Day - Although I have many quilts in-process, this is the first piece I have completely finished and quilted thanks to the endless inspiration of my friend and designer of this quilt; Cindy Ebbe. Yes like all great quilters, I have works (plural) in process… more commonly known as “UFO’s” (unfinished objects). The inspiration to create this quilt came from my energetic grand-boys and the beautiful and timeless illustrations of the child-like modes of transportation fabrics by Michael Miller. For me, it’s reminiscent of a much simpler and carefree era in America.

Circle of Life - Circles appiliqued using the fusible interfacing method and hand stitched on using a blanket stitch.

Crazy as a Bird Dog - I love this quilt. It was so much fun to do. The back is a soft velour/minky type fabric that is so soft to cuddle under. We keep this quilt on our couch and use it to keep warm while watching TV. My husband says it's his favorite quilt I've made. He likes the design, plus the softness of the back. I hand embroidered the names of "all the dogs I've loved before" on each dog on the quilt. We had a Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Chance, and one of the dogs on the quilt is named chance. When my husband would sing, "He's a good old hound dog to me...", Chance would howl and sing along with him. So, Kathy quilted, "He's a good old hound dog to me..." and a musical staff/notes on that block. This quilt has a lot of sentimental value to me because it makes me think of many of the best dogs I've had who have now passed on. It's a nice way to remember them.

No Girls Allowed

Monkey Wrench

Trick or Treat - This is a pattern made by Beverly Hindman for a class I took from her.

My Quilt from Hell - Completed as part of a mystery class at Winterfest in Heber City, UT.

Mystical Horses - WIP A crib quilt top made for great grandson, Shaun, designed using the striped fabric as borders around a Mystical Horse panel. The completion of the quilt was delayed when I had two mini strokes and was unable to do the machine quilting. I have decided to get my WIPs finished this year (2009) by having someone else do the machine quilting.

Nine Patch Animals - Crib quilt top started for grandson, Alex. In my campaign to clean up my WIPs this year (2009) I am going to add additional borders to make it larger than a crib so that Alex can still use it. I am going to have someone else machine quilt it, since I've had two mini strokes that make it difficult for me to machine quilt (I haven't been able to hand quilt since I waited to learn to make quilts until I had severe arthritis in my hands.) I used the background quilt pattern but didn't add the appliqued basket and flowers in the original design.

65 Years of Family - A photo album quilt made for my parents 65th wedding anniversary but never backed and quilted. I am sending this out to be machine quilted so that mother can hang it at the head of her bed. Another WIP to be finished this year (2009). The photos were printed on cotton fabric commercially since I had not yet learned how to print my own at that time.

Monet's Bargello - I made this quilttop for my daughter, Michal Ann, because she loved Monet's pond paintings and I thought these colors would give this effect. This is another of my WIPs that have not been completed due to my strokes. This one is also going to be machine quilted by someone else. Michal has had to be patient long enough.

Camping Quilt - I picked out features that were obviously connected with camping such as a trailer tent; marshmallows toasting round a campfire; a sleeping bag and a camping gaz light. I love forests and the stars. The actual designs determined how the blocks would be made. The trailer tent and camping gaz light lent themselves to foundation piecing, whilst the campfire and sleeping bag blocks said ‘appliqué’ to me. The sleeping bag was hand sewn, and I used Bondaweb for the campfire. I chose blue and green backgrounds as they are the dominant colours when in a field! Most of the fabric for the quilt came from my stash and I was delighted to be able to use so many of all the wonderful fabrics I had bought because I loved them. I thoroughly enjoyed hand sewing all the blocks over the winter months, and I machine sewed the sashing between the blocks, the Seminole and braid. The quilting was also done by machine with the feed dogs lowered.

Canning season - I saw a similar quilt at the Dallas Quilt show in 2006 and decided to try the pattern. I got the pattern off of the internet but had to make some corrections to make the lid fit. I collected the fabrics at the Dallas Quilt show, Jo-ann fabrics and my sister gave me the some fabrics. I was very pleased with the fabric I found for the jar lid, it has a nice stripe on it. I used a check for the base to look like the shelf paper that granny might have used.The backing and the binding is a multi vegetable print.

Pink Log Cabin - My husbands nephew and wife were finally able to have a baby after a long process.I wanted to make them someting special. I had this book for months so this was a good time to try it out.This pattern worked up so quick; I was very pleased with it. I have since used it for another baby quilt and now finishing up a king size for my bed. I really like the rose pinks in this quilt.

Red Rails - I love red and white. I made this for my son's 4th grade teacher, Judy Woodward. She is such a great teacher, so I wanted to thank her for all her hard work.