Hugs and Kisses - This was made for my new daughter. I found these beautiful embroidery animal designs for Valentine's day and had to mix it with the fun fabric that was available. It was my first attempt at applique and I was happy with the outcome.

Wonder Women or The W Quilt - This quilt is the first quilt I ever finished for myself. It is special because the class brought together 5 people who had so much fun together that we became great friends and Wonder Women. This quilt will always make me smile and think of the Wonderful relationships it gave me. It is the first time I worked with Asian print fabric and I have a new appreciation for pinning!

Quilt for baby - I just thought this would be a fun quilt for a baby to a toddler

One Block wonder Cubed - My Mother and Father bought me a whole bolt of pretty Hibscus floral fabric . I wanted to use it for the One block Wonder. I had alot of fun designing this quilt and i love the freedom of oneblock wonder to come up with your own design . Oh and I quilted it myself it was the first quilt I ever quilted myself and I gave it purple feathers in the border and feathered flowers in the blocks.

Golden Gate Fly-by - This quilt was made as a part of my quilt guild's first "Whisper Challenge". I used raw edged fusible applique, free-motion quilting, metallic thread stitching, copper wire & beading.

The Infamous Wedding Quilt - A single Irish Chain with a heart worked into the alternate blocks, in Tiffany Blue & Chocolate Brown.

Iced Sherbert - Glorified Nine Patch made with iced fabrics in pastel clours set on point.

Tassie Autumn - I used my hand dyed silk and hand dyed cotton for the backing. It is intensely machine free motion quilted with silk thread. Trapunto used in several blocks to give dimension. I bought Diane Gaudinski's book on free motion quilting and used this quilt to practise her designs and techniques, also used some of Caryl Fallert's designs.

Candy Wrapper - I made this quilt for my nephew's daughter Bella who is 7. Made from 100% cotton and machine quilted.

Starry Night - I made this quilt for an anniversary present for my son and his wife.

Orange Delight - I was house sitting and needed a project. This was my first quilt and I enjoyed the challenge.

Party Time - A quilt for my grandson.

Decade Mystery - This quilt took 10 years to complete. Well, it took a week to cut & piece. 9 years before quilted. 1 year later (yesterday) I bound it. Fini!

"Earth-Air-Fire-Water" - I fell in love with the graphics designed by John Langdon for Dan Brown's book "Angles & Demons" I asked John for permission to use them in my quilt and he graciously agreed. The center graphic and the four words for the elements are ambigrams. The graphics read the same right side up and upside down. The quilt design is original. This quilt lived on my design wall for nearly five years as I learned and developed techniques that allowed the work to progress. I hope you enjoy it.

Heavenly Swirls - I made this quilt for the "New From Old" contest for The Alliance For American Quilts. After the contest is judged, it will be donated to this organization and auctioned later this year. The drawing of the applique was inspired from a painted ceiling.

Shakespeare in the Park - My niece is getting married on 8/8/10, and this is her wedding quilt. It's mostly batiks (who knows how many different fabrics / solid purple batik backing), wool batting, and machine quilted with nylon on top and Bottom Line in the bobbin. The rebel in me decided to do concentric circles a half-inch apart, rather than continuous line spirals, or something like that (What the blankity-blank-blank was I thinking! I'll be snipping threads from circle-jumping for weeks, because I got lazy and didn't do it as I went along.) I started it in July09, finished the top in Jan10, and just finished the quilting this week (about an hour before my guild meeting...just in time to bring it for show and tell). I still have to block it and put the binding and label on, but I thrilled I'm going to have it finished on time!!! Since the pic was taken, I've soaked it in ice water to remove the water-soluble blue and white markers (the cold water in AZ is NOT cold enough to do the job), washed it in hot water with Synthropal with two dye catcher sheets (I think I prewashed the backing, but nothing else, plus added 4 tons of starch along the way.), and dried it in a hot dryer. No need to call the quilt police. I got the effect I was going for, lots of puckery goodness and texture that hides my still-developing-confident-beginner-free-motion-quilting skills (long winded way of saying my circles aren't the smoothest). No, there isn't bleeding of the dark onto the light, and if there is, I can't find it. I slept under it last night, just to see if it works, and it does...haha! I'll wash it again, after the binding, as my cat insists on sitting on my lap, when I hand-stitch the back, and the fabrics could be a bit softer. My theory is enjoy the quilt and use it until it's nothing but shreds! If my niece puts it up in a closet, I'd be crushed!

Dancing Winnie the Pooh Bear - I purchased a kit for the basic quilt from Connecting Threads. It was intended to have a large plain square in the middle of the quilt. After I'd already started it, the mom-to-be picked out Winnie the Pooh as her nursery theme. Instead of some fancy quilting on the plain square, I decided to use copyright free clipart of Winnie, blow it up and applique'd it on the center. It looked lonely, so I added my own butterflies and flowers. It's quilted all over with Patsy Thompson "loop-d-loops" with flowers, butterflies, stars and hearts interspersed around the quilt. The applique's are trapunto'd with a very fat polyester bat.

English Dresden Rose - Made with Liberty Prints from England & Diana Rose fabric in made honour of Princess Diana.