First Glimpse - When you enter the Rose Red City of Petra in Jordan you have to walk along an ancient riverbed through high colorful canyon walls. This entrance is called the "Siq" and is 1.2 kilometers long. You first catch a glimpse of the tomb called the "Treasury" with its rosy colored rock face carved in the early 1st century AD. I made this quilt from a photo I took in 1987 after a most wonderful tour of Petra.
unknown - 100% Hand quilted in my first class. It is a 39" square in purple and blue and white shoofly and ohio star 9 square blocks and the border is blue, white and purple the same as the sashing. The backing is purple and white the same as squares on front.
Faith Destiny - Created for new baby girl Faith Destiny, both mother and baby went through a very rough pregnancy, there was concern if either would survive. The whole top is quilted with the words Faith,Hope,Love,Destiny.
Tandin 2010 - Made for my great nephew.
I like the monkey wrench block, but didn't want to mess with the tiny squares in the center of the 8" block, so I changed the one "arm". I like how it turned out.
Doodle Quilt - This quilt started out as a project to learn foundation piecing. Somewhere obsessive behavior took over. The border is the doodle I do when meetings become much too long. I thought that it would give the eye a place to rest from all the string pieces.
Aron's Quilt - Made for grandson Aron's 34th birthday coming up on June 14th. I have already given quilts to all my children and other 4 grand children so this completes my goal of making a quilt for all my children and grand children! Aron doesn't know he is getting a quilt but I asked him what his favorite colors are - blue, tan, brown - so that was how I determined the color scheme.
Kaleidoscope #1 - The border was a mistake that turned out ok. The first one of three made from Ricky's great DVD instructions. Hangs in my dad's house.
Wind on Autumn Leaves - It is similar to a kaleiscope, except that there are 4 identical squares put together in different ways. I saw the leaf fabric and fell in love. The second colorway was an inspiration. I love the way the orange sets off the blocks.
Love Bandit - This is one of three quilts I have made based on my favorite photo of my grand-dog, Bandit. "Rowdy's Treasure" ( picture in my profile ) was the first and it was sold at an auction to benefit an Animal Rescue Fund. What can I say, I love this photo. Bandit is now 13 years old and still just as adorable. He started my continuing obsession with dogs.
Isabella's DIVAs IN TRAINING - I won the guild blotto blocks and this is what I made with them. I added some fussy cut blocks from DIVA IN TRAINING fabric. I hand FAUX quilted the fussy blocks.
Dragon Fire - I took the Dragon image from Needlesongs, enlarged it by 200% and changed the head to make it look fierce and blow out fire. I designed the quilt on EQ6.
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