Wedding Gift for Stephanie and Oliver - I first made a quilt using this pattern in 1991. I love the pattern. The strips are: 1 1/2 inches for lights and 1 inch for dark.

Cactus Flowers - This quilt was made from a photo that I took of cactus flowers in my neighborhood. The work was started in a class with Ruth McDowell.

A hug for Jo - This is a huggie quilt I made for my friend Jo, who lost her husband and son this year. I machine pieced , machine appliqued, and machine quilted the quilt.

Star Log Cabin - Sewn using log cabin strip method in E. Burns book, embroidered with designs by Holice Turnbull and Karyn Emerson, decorative stitches with my Bernina 730 making it a 2 sided quilt.

Desert Angle Play

Flying Colors Flying Geese - This quilt was made using the folded one-seam flying geese method. It is made from Ricky's hand-dyed fabrics.

Quilt for Brian

Barrett Quilt - This quilt was made by Susan Barrett in 1855 for her own 80th birthday. She is my great great great great grandmother. Lineage: Susan Barrett 1775-1881 Sally Barret Cortright Dean 1799 - 1889 Sylvia Barrett Cortright McArthur 1821 - ? Julia Ann McArthur Peck 1858 -1923 Carrie Peck Tiedeman 1880 - 1975 Donald Tiedeman 1919 - Suzanne Tiedeman Cubberley 1954 -

Wagon Wheel I - This was started in a class with Ruth McDowell. It was designed from a photo taken by my husband who is an amature photographer.

Oriental Sunrise - Begun in a class, this quilt is being raffled off for Relay for Life in Shippensburg, PA, June 14, 2009.

The Gardeners Journal

The Gate - This quilt incorporates piecing, trapunto, applique and dimensional applique techniques. It was inspired by the wrought iron gate in the archway of Trinity Hopsital Alms Houses in England. It's been in-work for two years.

Welcome Spring - Together with five quilting friends had an informal workshop with another friend who had taken Louisa Smith's "Strips and Curves" class. Chose a batik for my "focus fabric" that had areas of aqua and light green with large splotches of purple because I had a lot of fabrics in those color ranges. It was a really new experience working with fabrics in that way and lots of fun.

IOWA SUMMER NIGHTS - I made this for my sister, Amy. Background fabric was green or navy stars on cream. Couldn't decide which so I made the stars navy & green to let the viewer decide if background was green or navy. Once finished, I was reminded of our summer nights in Iowa growing up. Us laying in the grass after chasing fireflies, looking at the stars and waiting for a falling star to make a wish. I free motion quilted large loop de loo with stars scattered in. In the sashing, I created a way to do continuous line of stars. Easy and fun to make.

Becky's Paisley Star - Since Becky and her hubby had built their house, I thought the carpenter's wheel would be the perfect pattern for them. The fabric colors would work for her livingroom or bedroom. The block was made with squares and quarter triangles. Very easy to piece. I free motion quilted first time playing with feathers. Also learned print fabric wasn't a place to showcase quilting so I didn't do feathers in the paisley borders. Instead since the backing was the cream fabric I quilted reverse lettering so from the back, she could read "For my sister, Becky With Love, your sister Cindy" Thought that was clever of me. ha ha

Christina is College Bound - I recently took a class from J. Michelle Watts. She taught us to draw, cut and make our own stencils then to use paintsticks to apply the stenciled pattern to the fabric. I had a ball. Since my granddaughter has just graduated from high school and is heading to Arizona State University, this was a perfect time to use the technique learned. So I set out to produce the "Sparky" mascot into a quilt. I was able to draw the sparky, from another picture. Then made the stencil. I used paintsticks for his body, then used the sewing machines decorative stictching features to completely fill in the pitchfork, and his face. It was fun and I was very proud of the final result. This is a reversible quilt, I used the Cotton Theory to quilt it, one side is done in the rail fence pattern 12" finished blocks intersperesed with solid maroon or gold 12" blocks. The other side is made of simple 12" blocks of alternating colors. Sparky is placed prominently in the middle.

Ye Ole Fishing Hole - My brother is a fisherman BIG time. So I bought this fish fabric with him in mind but wanted something with a round pattern to create fishing hole theme. Had bought the Circle Magic template a long time ago and had messed up my first try with it so it sat collecting dust. I found a pattern in Fons and Porter Magazine giving tips on the Circle Magic Pattern so I got brave and tried again. It came together great but didn't have enough fish fabric for each block so threw in navy. Used fannel instead of batting- looks thin, drapes great but very heavy for those Iowa winters. He LOVES it.