Abbie's Boots - My neice, Abbie got married this year. She loves cowboy boots and was wearing them under her wedding dress. I just had to make her a special quilt for the occassion. I embroidered their names and date in the corner of the quilt.
Nemo's four season's quilt - Four fabrics with a similar landscape at four seasons of the year was used for the center. Around the center is one wedge for every week of the year with themes suitable for each week. The corners outside the wedges depict log cabins, because the owner's father bilds log cabin houses.
Glaucidium Palmatum - Started in Ruth B McDowell class. One of my woodland series. It is a plant from a northern Japanese island that I grow. Primarily machine pieced, one small hand appliqué added.
Contemporary Baltimore Album - Block designs (other than central element) by Mimi Dietrich. My central block and quilting design. Using bright batiks. Machine quilted "in the ditch" around the sashing, then hand quilted.
Clematis "Belle Etoille" - Part of my garden series. Intended to show Clematis growing up a trellis on a wooden siding in a bushy fashion. Pieced using Ruth B. McDowell's method.
Lady Slipper Orchid - Part of my woodland series; Cypripedium Kentuckiense a lady slipper orchid. It was going to have a mossy rock wall in the background, as it appears in my woodland, but after pinning up the flower fabrics, the mossy rocks seemed too dull. So it looks like it got transplanted to the dessert south west.
Hellebores - Part of my woodland series. I grow a variety of hellebores, some of the newer ones hold their flowers erect. I selected flowers from several plants, so used a block format to showcase them.
Trillium Grandiflora - Part of my woodland series. One of several species of trillium I grow. I used fussy cut pieces of a single piece of very busy decorator fabric as the background to set off the broad expanses of green and white of the trillium. I think it gives a somewhat exaggerated color version of the woodland duff.
Giant Waterlily - Waterlilies in my koi pond have been spectacular this year. After playing with design ideas for lilies, leaves and a frog or two, I decided to focus on just one flower and make it very large. I wanted to play with many hues of red and to highlight the bright yellow stamens. Those I made from strips of many fabrics, held down by appliquéing the center and an overlay of tulle.
Pulsatilla or Pasque Flower - Pulsatilla nestles in mossy rocks in my garden. But, once again, after I selected the flower colors, that seemed too dull. It is the easter flower, so I gave it bright Easter colors. I could not piece intricately feathered leaves, so I heavily quilted that area to give a general impression.
Maureen's Orchid - Silversmith, Maureen grows luscious orchids. I selected this one because of the combination of colors in the flowers and because it is a tropical orchid, I gave it an "exotic" background using fabrics with touches of gold or an eastern flavor.
Fourth of July - After taking a class with Judy Niemeyer. Here is my creation. It was completely paper pieced and I loved every minute of this quilt from choosing the fabrics right down to the piecing. I have yet to quilt it. But it is a high priority to get this onto my long arm machine soon!
Fabulous - The first time that I saw this quilt, I knew I had to make it! Simple yet full of color and variety. I chose, slightly more vivid colors than on the original pattern and it just speaks jewels to me. I quilted it with an edge to edge design called the grass is greener.
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