Very Hungry Caterpillar - I adapted the twin sized quilt design from Andover Fabrics to make a smaller baby quilt using their fabric line for A Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Impulse - A Storm at Sea pattern worked in bright batiks. The challenge of quilting this quilt was changing the thread to match the color of the blocks every row.

Relay for Life-Quilt of Hope - My friends sister who is battling cancer was entering a team in the "Cancer Relay for Life" fundraiser. I agreed to help raise donations for the team and I would make her a team banner. The banner kept growing until it became a quilt which I dedicated to the memory of my mother who lost her battle with the dreaded disease two years prior. This was finished the day before the fundraiser and I still had to make the banner. It was my first time paper-piecing. The ribbons which represent some of the different types of cancers and the daffodils which is the cancer flower were paper pieced. Mom loved butterflies so I bought and appliqued them on. To me they represented "hope" that someday we would have a cure. I also appliqued the symbol and motto for Relay for Life.

Manzanita in Springtime - This was to be the first in a series of seasonal California trees. Other projects got in the way, and so this small quilt is an only child.

The Sun Is Out - Three guild challenges are in this piece. Ribbon covered beads; beads and buttons; and "no holes barred". The title indicates the hole in the sun.

Fire and Ice - When the challenge was "cold and hot" I decided to use orange fabric and snowflake print for the yin and yang cats.

Freedom - The Pacific Rim web site suggested that their Carousel pattern be modified to be a horse. After removing the carousel equipment, my horse is free in the meadow.

Stellar Bouquet - Three friends and I exchanged a 1/2 yard peice of a favorite fabric. We each had to use at least half of each piece of fabric in our quilt. I hadn't made a Mariners compass and wanted to. So I looked at books, drafted my own, then created them using paper piecing. I love flowers so I arranged them as a bouquet.

Henny Peony - I took a photo of a chicken at the county fair, then used the Ruth McDowell method of drafting and piecing to create the quilt top. I decided it was too plain, so I added the bright english-paper-pieced flowers.

My Secret Garden - Jacket made with a sweatshirt appliqued with floral and landscape fabrics. Like painting, fabric pieces were placed, then machine appliqued and quilted.

My Flower Garden

Stars

Chrysanthemum

"An Unaffected Grace" - Grace began with a pencil sketch study of flowing lines. I usually find a name for a my quilts during the creation process, not so with this quilt. When It was finished I looked up NATURAL in the thesaurus. "An Unaffected Grace" was a phrase suggested. My Grandmother, a quilt maker, was named Grace. The thought of Grandma's name on my quilt made me smile. The low tech pencil sketch was scanned into high tech computer where I was able to decide on value placement before cutting one bit of fabric. The quilt is also embellished with original designed bead trim.

Thursday's Garden - Thursday is the cat on the top. This was one of my modifications to the pattern. Although a kit was the starting point, I made many fabric substitutions.