Deep River Dark Water - I made this for my parents 50th anniversary. They live on the beautiful Ottawa River and I thought the colours and feel of the design reflected the setting and love for each other.
Bluebirds Piece O'Cake - I started this quilt with various Piece O'Cake patterns from thier books: Flowering Favorites, Applique Delights and The New Applique Sampler. I designed the center medallion and the border to tie it all together.
Pinwheel Pirouette - This was a purchased Kit featuring the Madeira Collection fabrics by Blackbird Designs. This is a from a moda to go 2007 kit using jellyroll. This quilt has not been quilted yet. Still deciding whether to hand quilt or to send out for quilting.
"Play Ball" - This quilt is made using Joshua's favorite colors and featuring Atlanta Braves Fabric, his favorite baseball team. Was Hand quilted using red quilting tread to compliment the front and blend with the back.
Garden Girl - This quilt was created for the "Keepsake Quilts" Challenge Welcome Spring. The object is use a purchased medley of fabrics to suit the theme of the challenge. She was chosen to be displayed at the first annual AQS Lancaster Quilt Show in March of 2010.
"Scrap-Patch Hearts" - Baby quilt made for Grandaughter. Is made using a variety of colorful fabrics with white on white polkadot background. Completed July 5, 2009. Was machine quilted on a Domestic Machine using stitch in the ditch.
Bouquet - I love "Fantasy Fabrics" by Bonnie Lynn McCaffrey. It is a fun and very forgiving technique. I used silk flowers on top of a hand-dyed background with a cream tulle over the top. It is quilted with a gold metallic thread.
My First Kaleidoscope - I really let loose on this quilt. No fretting over fabric--I didn't have that much yardage since most of my stash is fat quarters. So, I used what I had. Didn't fuss over what went next to what. Just "trusted" the method of making the quilt. Ad-libbed on the quilting and am pleased with the way it looks. Just sorry I didn't read the directions well enough to see I was suppose to do something unique with the border to be eligible for Ricky's book.
brown quilt - Made this quilt using a pattern from Ricky Tim's projects section....color selection ?...I started this quilt after saw the show on neutrals....
My Embroidered Rhapsody - Embroidered cutwork allows the black background to show through. This led me to separate the sections and fuse them to the black background so that a black line would show between all sections too.
3D flowers - I bought a Moda jellyroll and started to strip it together. It looked busy so I put the yellow strips between and decided it looked like a trellis. I embroidered the three dimensional flowers which inspired the entirely free motion quilted background.
Quilt for Kids charity quilt - This is a quilt I made for 'Quilts for Kids". From start to finish, including the quilting, it only took about 10 hours. Machine pieced and machine quilted on my domestic machine. Just something I did for a good cause.
Redwork girls - I made this quilt for the Bushfire appeal here in Australia. Some of the fabric was donated by our local Spotlight store. It was machine pieced and long arm quilted by me.
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