Dexter's I Spy - I wanted to make an I Spy quilt, but did not want to make the standard hexagon pattern. So I cut the novelty fabrics (multicolored and monotone) into 2.5 inch squares and sorted them into 6 piles - light medium and dark of the multicolored fabrics, and light medium and dark of the monotone fabrics. Then made the Trip Around the World layout and constructed the quilt using 9 patch construction following the specific layout required to get the shading I wanted. There were 12 different 9 patch constructions. When I finished all the 9 patches I realized that I needed a single row down the vertical center and the horizontal center to make the design sparkle. The most difficult part was adding these vertical and horizontal rows as the quilt was in quarters and heavy so it stretched a little. Fortunately, the machine quilter, Eleanor Johnson was able to bail me out and the quilt came out great!!!

Dads Quilt - Variety of blocks and block sizes. Family photos.

Nautilus Emerging

Going to College - I made this quilt for my Son when he was going to college. He loved the quilt so much he wouldn't take it with him in case something happened to it. He does come home often to visit his quilt and do laundry.

After Van Gogh - After seeing the original Van Gogh, I was inspired to mimic his paint strokes with fabric.

Red & Tan

Spring colors

No Diamonds In The Sky - This quilt is pieced in sections using only half square triangles.

Shining Star - This quilt is based on the old Lone Star quilts, but is made using only half square trianles. This is the quilt I used for my No Diamonds/ No "Y" Seams demonstration on Simply Quilts with Alex Anderson.

Beach Babes - This quilt is made with half square triangles. The center squares are machine embroidery using a pattern by Loralie Harris. The ladies are so much fun.

Asheville Foliage - This quilt is pieced in sections using only half square triangles, squares and rectangles. It is based on the old Lone Star quilts that were made with 45' diamonds.

Galaxy Contained - A yourney of making new fabric out os several textures, cuting these then re-arranging into a circle. Third in a series of experimenting with the basic concepts

my eyes on the Bulls eye - challenge quilt to use the bulls eye and exchanged squres in the group I belong to, and not a single quilt turned out the same.

Night glow - The stars were paper pieced and four geometric circle designs near the center were machine embroidered on this quilt. My son kept telling me to design my own quilt so this is my first attempt at doing so.

Mom's Star - I made this wall quilt as a Christmas present for my mother using fabrics I was waiting for the right inspiration to use.

No Schlafen, schlafen - I made this quilt developed around the wonderful wolf fabric. I loved the way the wolves were running through the woods and wanted to echo this in the piecing so the viewer would have the sensation that the wolves were running out of the quilt toward the viewer. I used " tree fabrics" in the upper part of the quilt and " snow fabrics" in the lower part of the quilt to reinforce the emergence of the wolves through the woods. I named this quilt "No schlafen, schlafen" for my walking friend Laila Wulff Weil a lover of wolveswho walks through the woods twice daily to meet me to walk. "No schlafen" means "Don't be lazy!"