Duckies in the water - I like hand piecing and enjoy working on Kaleidoscope blocks when am away from home and need some hand work to take along. I set these together by machine into a blue backgroud that make it look like the duckies are swimming. At least that is the intention. The backing has little yellow duckies on a white background with blue bubbles.

First Birthday quilt - I have always used patterns in making quilts. Since being at a quilt store with a friend and saw someone explaining the disapearing 9 patch block, I knew I wanted to make a quilt using that block. It was a lot of fun. I made the blocks out of scraps of childrens fabric and some solids and dots. etc... Took me awhile to decide what to do, but because the blocks were so bold and busy I set them in a calmer sashing. I think the borders bring out the primary colors in the quilt. I was pleased with the result.

Western Red & Blue - BQ's quilt blocks were redrafted to accommodate Anita Phillips "Back in the Saddle" panels.

Welcome to My Garden - The Hexagons were fussy cut. Some hexagons were split, the black border was added and broderie perse motifs were hand appliqued to complete the flowers. The quilt was embellished with tiny yellow yo-yo's and beads. I quilted with a black iridescent thread.

Some Bunny Loves You - This quilt was made for my niece and her first baby. The layout was from Darcy Ashton's "Grandma's Bunnies" booklet. I selected the blocks and fabrics. Sandi Wagner quilted it on her longarm machine. There are carrots quilted into the blue border.

Monkey Business - Made for a new neighbor's two years old son. Made with "sock monkey" fabric. Backing is brown with yellow bananas.

BLACK PEARL - This was a guild challange. Our favorite Movie. My movie Pirates of the Carribean

Out of my Box - Jery a member of my mini group asked us to try his new quilt pattern. He gave us a class and it was great fun... I was so far out of my box. I learned so much.. about quilting and myself.

Feathers & Urns

Complimentary Colors - This quilt was a class at my local quilt shop. I loved the setting and had my fabrics from another quilt I never started. The colors are all complimentary colors on the color wheel and I used them for the color wheel block in the center of the quilt

No color! - A challeng with 2 friends to make an 8" x 10" quilt with texture only - no color. I used braiding, ruching, folding, pintucking, quilting, gathering - lots of fun !

Little Lumberjacks - Photo transfer of my boys at ages 3 and 5 - added lincoln logs to top and bottom of the little quilt to play on the lumberjack theme.

Early Morning Jewel - I made a photo kaleidoscope from a photo of a spider web I took one morning. I used scraps of lace, beads, yarn, and batiks to turn it into a little jewel of a quilt

Hushabye Coins - My friends have been trying to have a baby for 10 years and finally were able to adopt a baby. When they went to the baby's doctor's appointment, when Baby was 10 days old, they found out Mama was 3 months pregnant. So there will be another quilt for Baby J's little brother.

Rose Garden - Experimenting with many types of quilting approaches, trying to find who I am as a quilter, I came across Ricky Timms book on Convergence quilts and thought I'd have a go at one. The fabrics I chose were not in line with his, but the technique used was. My first play with thread painting happened on this quilt too!

We are also from Nairobi - I needed a quilt for our Quilt exhibition which was last week and since everyone is in African mood I made this one.

Pam's Log Cabin - Made for Pam as she was recovering from Meningitis

gift quilt for sister-in-law college graduation - Pattern pictured on the April 2009 edition of McCalls Quilting