Hidden Agenda - I loved the way the red and white fabric worked together. I saw this quilt hanging in a quilt shop and had to make it.

Cape Sable Lighthouse - raw edge applique with hand painted fabrics and purchased batiks

Hundertwasser house - I love the way Hundertwasser designs his houses He is an European architect. I tried to make a house as stunning as his. Nothing in his design is straith, not the windows doors or the walls. It was so much fun to work on this quilt. I included my hand dyed fabrics.

AZ Remembered - I took a Stack-n-Whack class. This is the result. I love the technique and can't wait to try a different patten in the book. The fabric and colors are southwest. The colors are so dramatic and bright. This quilt is living on my quest bed. The back of this quilt is pieced as well, simply because I had enough fabric left over. I cannot add a picture of the back of the quilt in this description. But it is nice to have a reversible quilt.

Wedding Quilt - I made this quilt for my daughter out of the fabrics used in her wedding. I substituted white cotton with a small white print on it for the white satin of her gown which I also made. The black is for the black tuxes, the grey satin is the coordinating color the groomsmen wore and the red for the bridesmaids. She also loves daises which is the pattern I used for embroidering the flowers. Unfortunately, the red fabric ran into the white the first time she washed it, but it is a well loved and well worn quilt. This was the first large quilt I had made. Before that I had only made baby rag quilts.

Dallas' Lone Star - This year I am going to make Lone Star quilts for my five grandchildren. This quilt is the first I have completed. Dallas' Lone Star is made with blue and yellow fabrics from Walmart in a traditional Lone Star Pattern. It is heavily quilted by machine, using a grid pattern, Baptist Fan, and a feather design. This quilt is bound in a blue and yellow checked fabric. I had trouble giving this away because I loved the quilting in it so much. The fabrics are the same fabrics used for another quilt I entered into the gallery earlier, Laine's Winding Ways Quilt.

Cow Parade - This is a fused raw edge applique in which each block was made by a different person using different fabrics but the same component parts (some mirror imaged). The quilt is a baby shower present for a colleague at work. It is the Chinese year of the Ox (cow) so a quilt of cute cows seemed appropriate. Sixteen co-workers contributed to the making, with three of us then assembling the top and quilting.

Being Square Is Good - Totally scraps of former projects. Finished squares are 1", 1-1/2" and 2" -- lots and lots of squares.

Snail's Crawl - This was my first attempt at a wholecloth quilt. I marked the design with wash-out blue marking pens, then off I went. I used Cotton Sateen fabric and YLI #100 silk thread. My biggest challenge was getting the border to fit together. That's still my biggest challenge.

Checkered Star - I made this checkered star in the 80's from Jenny Beyers book of blocks and borders. It is made with navy, lavender and white. I loved the quilt and it got a lot of attention including being selected by pictured in Ladies circle patchwork quilts in August 1991. However the navy fabric faded quickly and the quilt had to be put away to prevent further damage.

California Quilt - I designed this quilt around my family history in the California Gold Rush. The center figure is a gold minor panning gold. Above him is the golden gate bridge, on either side are towering sequoia trees, below him is a bear and in the corners are quails. When I started the project I wanted the gold minor as the central medallion, my husband told me I needed the other elements. I drew all the images myself and believe me I am no artist.

Frogs are people too - I drew this frog off a postcard I picked up in San Diego. My husband called his youngest son Frog, so when I saw this postcard I knew I wanted to make it into a quilt. My husband and his sons helped his ex father in law on a cattle ranch. So the cowboy frog was just too appropriate. I finished the quilt off with a wild goose chase border.

Country Bear - After my success with drawing my California Quilt designs I drew this adaptation of Disney's Country bear. I bordered him with bears paw and added bear feet in the side borders. My husband is a bear hunter and so bears are a special theme for me.

Alishas Quilt - This is the first quilt I designed on EQ6. My husband and I collaborated on designing this quilt for our granddaughter Alisha. I started with a Checkered Star (one of my favorite patterns) and added Sun borders. I selected green since it is Alisha's favorite color and rose pink seemed to go with the green.

Jenny's Chemo Quilt - A co-worker and friend was recently diagnosed with cancer so I made this quilt to help her through her chemotherapy.

Broken Star - I made this broken star quilt for my parents 45th wedding anniversary. The colors were the colors in their room and the squares and triangles around the star were quilted with the names and birthdate of their five children and their grandchildren, also included were their names and the date they married. They enjoyed the quilt for twenty one years until my mother passed away. I now have the quilt back and will pass it on to one of their grandchildren.

oriental star - I wanted to do a scrap quilt but ended up buying a whole lot of fabric so I could do this quilt in rainbow colors.

Union Star - Made for my Mother and Father in Law. Red white and blue.