Bling

"The Disconnect" - I had just found out a few days before this class my dh has Parkinsons. The feelings of frustrations and unreality show in the colors.. the design just shows how disconnected you become from the real world. It could also show some lostness associated with alzheimers too..like the packman of the 70's just taking away your life piece by piece..

Boston Blackie - One of my three cats was "found" in my trash can looking for food.. He was very skinny, almost starved. Well, two months in the garage, to get fattened up and away from my other cats, a trip to the vets to be vaccinated and nuetered, he is now my biggest baby. There is not one white hair on him and unless he looks right at you in the dark you cannot see him.. this is the most loving cat, loves to go for a ride in the car.. (I just open the door and he comes running to go along),does not get out until I tell him it is okay. He never gets on anything but his beds or "his" chair and has to sit near me all the time.. I love this cat,so HAD to make a quilt of him.

Bad Bad Rooster - I got Chickens for my grand daughter to make money for college. (she was 3 when I got these chickens,but I know she will make there someday). The Rooster that came with the girls was a mystery( freebee). He was the meanest thing.. so she called it her bad bad rooster(hence the name of the quilt). He really did look like this... that eye follows you around, and so did his.. He is gone now, but I made this so she will always know her first rooster. He is constructed by laying each piece down and quilting over it on my longarm. The ends of the feathers are loose so they shake like they did on him. All of this was constructed with a white piece of fabric I drew the rooster on and layed the fabrics on top of each other until it "looked" like I wanted.. just like painting but with fabrics..

By the Sea - Gift for my mother-in-law, who loves the ocean. Embellished with yarns and machine embroidery.

Heart Warming Log Cabin Quilt

Trip Around the World

Carolina Lily Placemat - This is a place mat. I made 6 of them.

Go Broncos - This is a baby quilt, the nursery is done in Broncos colors and has the Broncos theme.

Patriotic Passion - Red, white and blue "Texas Star" type pattern, machine quilted on APQS Millennium with Superior Threads gold metallic, Bottom Line. Hangs in my breezeway during our patriotic holidays.

Pizza Party Place Mats - These are placemats that look like real pizzas. Everything you see is an individual piece. Cut and fused then quilted. There are 6 and they are all a different topping combination.

Dresden - I used 40 different fabrics, 5 inch blades cut with the Easy Dresden Ruler, hand stitched them onto 14 inch blocks and bound with several of the fabrics that make up the Dresden Plates. Quilted on the longarm.

Celebrate - This is a wall hanging I purchased as a kit. I replaced some of the fabrics with my fabric. The feathers are made with hand dyed fabric.

Rag Time

Circle Dance

Trip Around the World

Tom and Geri - Primary colors were sewn together, cut in circles, interchanged, machine appliqued onto patchwork backing, machine blanket stitched, quilted, beaded and a gold lame piping added in the binding.