Christmas Mystery Quilt - This was a fun on-line mystery quilt from RockyMountainQuiltworks. My mom who lives several states away participated and also a friend closer by. It is fun to be connected by quilting!

Wedding Dress Memory - I used 12" squares of my friend's wedding dress, highlighting the lace motifs, and added gold brocade for the complementary squares. I just had fun quilting with different free motion featherish designs.

Blooming Nine Patch - I fell in love with this pattern when I saw a sample in my LQS. I quickly signed up for the class that was being offered and was able to complete the top within 3 weeks. I'm just waiting til after the holidays to send it to get quilted.

The Wedding - This is a quilt done in celebration of my daughter and son-in-laws wedding. I used colors they had in the wedding and reception.

Mom's Birthday - I made this for my mother's birthday. The colors were chosen based on colors in her home

tuilps in the spring

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BOM 2009 - Meissner's Folsom store 2009 block-of-the-month. Blocks designed by Helen Hardwick. I designed the setting. This is a reversible quilt.

Byers Family Quilt - I used had dyed silks for the vases and created the books on the computer, then printed them onto fabric (Using books that I had in my home).

Where Love Resides 2010 - I started this quilt 11 years ago at the request of my youngest daughter, Betsy, who said she wouldn't get married until she was at least 30 yr. old. I told her it would take me that long to make it as I was no appliquer. Well, 11 years later Betsy is engaged with a wedding date set for Oct. 2010. She and her fiance, Jeremy will receive this quilt as their wedding gift from me.

Batik Stars in the GArden - Hand applique with batik fabrics, machine pieced and machine quilted

LOVELY STARS AND RECTANGLES - This is my very 1st quilt. It is such a lovely design that shows off the star block. It is a great little table topper if you didn't want it as a wall hanging. The quilt design is in a book called Quilting from start to finish by Katherine Guerrier. The actual quilt in the book needed a flying geese border after the triangles but being my 1st quilt I didn't want it to big so I stopped it at the triangle border. I machine quilted the quilt on my sewing machine, it was quilted in the ditch around all the borders.

Grandsons quilt - I know this as the tube block. It is made using 3 strips of fabric sewed together to make a tube, cut out in a triangle shape and then 4 blocks sewn together to make one block, super easy!

Spring flower - A paper pieced flower (tulip). I made 3 blocks and made a small wallhanging .

My name is Otter - My daughter volunteered at Camp Goodtimes, an American Cancer Society camp. All the staff have fun, fictitious names....She chose "Otter". We vacationed in Alaska with her this summer and were able to photograph some otters. I used commercial, hand painted, and batik fabrics. Techniques involved fused applique and machine thread painting.

Benefit for Anthony - I made two of these quilts, thinking that I can have them on hand when I need to give a quilt on short notice. While I was making this, it was determined that our neighbor's nephew - only about a year old - needed a liver transplant, and they were having a fundraiser for his benefit. I donated this quilt. My neighbor had no idea what went into the making of a quilt and when she saw this, she decided that she wanted her nephew to be able to keep the quilt. However, she still wanted to raise money for the cause. She has seven sisters, so between the eight of them, they donated money for the cause and gave the quilt to their nephew. He went through the surgery and is doing very well a year later.