Cari - A portrait of my niece, a Christmas gift for my sister-in-law.

Jenni's T-Shirt Quilt #2 - This is the second of four t-shirt quilts I made for my daughter's High School graduation. The shirts are set with batiks and use parts of jeans, too.

Jenni's T-Shirt Quilt #1 - This is the first of four t-shirt quilts I made for my daughter's graduation. It weighs 15 pounds! This combines t-shirts and denim parts, set with denim.

Plum and Sage - This was the Hands of Friendship Quilt Guild block exchange. Each participating member made 29 blocks the same and exchanged them. I framed, set each block, and made more.

Thangles Friendship - This little kit was purchased in Kansas and put together in a weekend at a "girlfriend" retreat. I had enough extra triangles to make another doll quilt.

Egypt Quilt - Triangles simulating pyramids of Egypt. Commemoration of my trip to Egypt with my mother.

Tea Towel Quilt - My "Granny" died in 1983 and these blocks were made from tea towels that she embroidered probably in the 50's and were used till I saved them from being thrown away. I cut out the least worn parts and sashed them with 30's reproduction fabrics and gave the quilt to my oldest Grand daughter when she was born in 1999 and I had made her crib quilt and accessories out of 30's fabrics also. The quilt still hangs in her room although the other 30's things are long gone.

Stars & Stepping Stones - I made this quilt based on a really "ugly" piece of Kings Road Fabric that Susan Smith the owner of the Quilt Gallery in Augusta, Georgia said we would never be able to sell (I was working there at the time.) We sold 3 more bolts of it and I taught a class on how to make it several times, selling lots of Marsha's book as well. The "ugly" piece was the orange with the turqouise and blue vase pattern which makes up the setting triangles.

PNG tribal man 1997 - This was a group challenge & the challenge was some thing typical PNG. I made a PNG northen coastal man in his tridiational national costume. Made from cotton & snake skin!!!!! It is in the shape of a PNG Shield which is about 1/2 meter long.

Rainforst to the sea - A paper pieced Group challenge in PNG called rain-forest to the sea. We could not use the same piece of fabric twice except in the boarder. This was quite a challenge as there were no fabric shops in PNG!!!! Shape was either clam-shell, square, triangle or diamond & no bigger than 2inches. Size of finished quilt was to be no smaller than 3/4 of a meter & no bigger than 1 1/2 meters.

Passion - I was given a beautiful silk crepe scarf with a drawing of a Japanese lady wearing a full formal Kimono; I kept it in its original wrapping for some thing special. When we moved to the tropics we had this amazing red tropical passion flower (6inches across)in our garden; it reminded me of the beautiful red scarf, End result was this quilt. Each hexagon is quilted as you go; so I made all these hexagons then put them together making 6 red flowers to resemble the passion flower & surrounded the flowers around the Japanese’s lady which is in the centre top; adding dark hexagons to define the lady & flowers. Cheers Glenda

My Calico Garden - I first saw a photo of the original Calico Garden quilt when I started appliqué work in PNG in 1994 & thought one day I want to make that quilt & I will be happy. It has taken me 15 years to get there????? Some of the blocks are original & some are mine. Boarder is my design which is not finished yet. I have used coloured 9 blocks instead of white & colour; & used black in the boarders. My blocks are 6inches instead of the original 3inchs. Cheers Glenda

Jon's Dragon - Dragon’s wings & under-belly are made from very heavily tight woven silk obi fabric, body from a lyric’s fabric; & he has been appliquéd on to Black satin. Then finally framed.

Tropical Colours - Learning to play with quilt as you go blocks.

Oriental Fans - I saw the original photo in a quilting book & made an adaptation of it with silk & cotton fabrics from Japan. The fans are appliquéd on to a piece of silk Kimono in deep maroon fabric. In the top corner are two blue enamel brooches that were owned by my grandmother. I had it framed. Cheers Glenda

Hannah Rose - This portrait was based on a photo of my neice when she was just 3. It is done using raw edge applique fused onto the background fabric and enhanced with thread work. This was completed in a workshop with Pam Holland.

Its a Crazy World - This range of Jan Mullen fabrics begged to be made into a quilt with a twist. A log cabin block was adapted so it was pieced off-kilter for interest. The pieced borders were also made in random sizes.

Summer at the Beach - Made completely using half-square triangles in the colours of yellow, blue and purple and simply stipple quilted.