Witch Is In

Victorian Garden

Grapes on the Vine

Nessy - I made this quilt for my son, using colours and fabrics that he would like. The fabrics used in the stack'n wack blocks have aboriginal designs. I appliqued a lizard in the centreblock with free-motion quilting. It's name is Nessy, after the Loch Ness monster, because it is huge!

Bonfire At Sunset - Original, art quilt features my hand-painted fabric that was inspired by a summer bonfire on the lake at sunset, roasting marshmallows, telling stories, watching the ever-changing colors of the fire, lake and sky... This one-of-a-kind hand-dyed and painted fabric features sunset hues in soft pinks, corals and soft golden yellow tones with a hit of chocolate brown richness as the sunset fades. Intricately quilted with lots of thick metallic threads, building on the fire theme where silver, black, copper, and gold foil meld together with sparks of turquoise, red, pink and orange as the fire crackles and wood pops and sparks... It really brought back memories of roasting marshmallows! A soft, creatively curving binding follows the lazy line of smoke from the fire, as it collides with spunky sparks, floating upward into the late dusky night sky. An original design from MarveLes (Leslie McNeil) Art Quilting. Approximate size is 20" wide by 36" long.

Colors of Home - My daughter Melinda is studying abroad in London, England and wanted a quilt with the colors of autumn to remind her of home. I used a lightweight batting so it wouldn't run up the weight limit on luggage for her flight overseas. I used the machine to write with thread on the surface of the quilt top the label, a Bible verse she requested and several family sayings to make her smile.

Royal Gems - Bright colors, neat pattern.

Dogwoods and Buckeyes - This quilt was made as a wedding gift. My niece Sarah was born in Ohio and married Brent from Georgia. I chose buckeyes (in the border) to represent Sarah's place of birth and dogwoods to represent Brent's place of birth as well as where they begin their new life together (the center wreath). The nature theme is totally them--they love the outdoors.

Dogwoods and Buckeyes - center motif - close up of center motif

My Colorado Mountain View - This was a Colorado mountain view that I created little piece by little piece. I did way too much thinking about this piece but I like the results.

Leaf Fall

Champagne Supernova - Scrap quilt made as a wedding present for my son and daughter in law instead of a more traditional wedding quilt. They like bright colours!

Asian Garden - Japenese Fabrics with a colorful scrappy feel

Music always everywhere. - The background is trip around the world, and the applications are kopies of old stone stone carvings - helleristninger. Symbols of the sun, sailing and playing "lur".

Reynolds Crossing - I designed this on graph paper as our bedspread. Lots of doodling and imaginative thinking resulted in the final quilt design

My Wyoming Valley - Tribute to Wyoming. took the traditional wyoming valley block and made 5 variations thereof. combined with the bucking horse emblem form the Univ. of Wy.

Christmas All Around - designed on graph paper. wanted to capture favorite colors, icons and memories and the sparkle of christmas

Christmas Village - Two years ago I saw one of these quilted wallhangings in a member's gallery. I bought the book and finally set aside some time to make a village based on the ideas in the book, Happy Villages by Karen Eckmeier.