Flower Garden - I made this with The One Block Wonder Pattern The outer boarder is made out of the same fabric so you could see what the fabric looked like before cutting out the Triangles.

countryside butterflies - Strip of the month presented by Shaffer's Countryside Quilting shop

Rainbow

BRYNN's BUTTERFLIES - I started with preprinted butterfly squares but there were only 8 to a panel so I traced one and appliqued the center square to coordinate. It was fun to shop out of my box for the sashing & border fabrics. My granddaughter & I made a pinwheel doll's quilt together using the scraps from this one.

Abby, an Art Quilt - Abby is a fabric collage of a dog, quilted by machine and mounted on a 1inch canvas frame. I used commercial printed fabric and had a good time. It was the most difficult quilt I have thus far.

Nancy's Quilt (the back) - With thanks for the technique from the UnRuly Quilter, Tonya Ricucci's book "Word Play Quilts"

Workshop sample with Katherine Guerrier - Made with Ricky Timms (sale) fabrics at the Quilters Guild weekend in Stirling June 2011 - a fun workshop with a great teacher.

Jacobean Floral Fantasy - This quilt started out as a practice block and developed as a quilt over a 10 year period as I was completely hooked by the colours and technique. I had always admired the work of Patricia Campbell and was privileged to take a couple of classes with her at the quilt fair in Houston. Several of the designs are adapted from the originals. Elements from the quilt were used to make the border designs.

Rory and Marley's Wedding Quilt - I actually made this quilt twice. The first time I had a comedy of errors in which a fabric ran, I washed the quilt, there were runs everywhere, and I tried to remove the runs, which resulted in much of the color also being removed. This second time, I decided I wanted more bright oranges and bright greens (the 2 colors my son had requested), and I chose to make my first scalloped border. I am very pleased with the project. It is in the Omaha Quilters Guild show and I should know how it did later today (2nd place!). Once I receive it back, I am considering painting inside the quilted flowers on the border and on the back. ....we'll see!

Grandmother's Flower Garden - This is a king sized grandmother's flower garden which I hand pieced about 10 years ago. I began hand quilting, but its overwhelming size and problems with my hands and elbow caused me to discontinue my work. My friend asked to finish it. It took her 2 years. The quilt is a traditional setting with an original border design. Each flower has a pale yellow center and is surrounded by green 'leaves.' Each unit is then surrounded by a white path which is quilted with 3 stones in each hexagon and it all is joined together with orange diamonds and triangles. The quilt top is appliqued to the solid white borders, which then had the flowers and diamonds appliqued to them. I wanted prairie points on the binding, but facing up. However, the angles were wrong, so after I got it back from the quilter, I also appliqued the diamonds around the edges, and finished by scalloping the corners. It received a first place and a Best in Category in the Omaha Quilt Guild Show, 2011.

A Garden for My Mother - I made this quilt for my Mother. The center is done with Alex's paper pieced New York Beauty Block and the other piece blocks were from a BOM from my guild.

Wedding Ring - I used all of my quilting skills and trapunto to enhance an already perfect foundation pieced design. This quilt was made for my husband, I had promised to make this for him for many years.

Parasols and Pansies - This quilt was machine embroidered block designs from Anita Goodsign, made in memory of my Mother, the layout and quilting was my own original design and was published in 'Flair' machine embroidery magazine UK. It was an effort to combine machine embroidery with quilting.

Kool Kaleidoscope - I saw the free show on TQS with Ricky Tims on kaleidoscopes, and set to and made this, it was so fun to make, and enhanced it with a variety of free motion quilting designs, I had not seen the TQS before making this, and it made up my mind to definately buy a membership, I learned so much from Ricky's great instruction and was able to produce this Kool Kaleidoscope.

Mariners Compass - I made this Mariners Compass for my Sister Jan, she is terminally ill with ovarian cancer, it was a way I could wrap her in my love, she was a keen boatswoman for many years, so the design was very apt.

Snake River Log Cabin - I made this quilt for my Son and wife last Christmas, I had made several log cabins before this one, but I really liked the way the layout of this one was presented, it was a huge success story as they both loved it. It really is a most striking quilt.

Tree of Life - I made this quilt as I love trip around the world, using up a lot of blues I had over from other projects, I machine embroidered a 'Tree of Life' in the centre of this quilt, hoping that this quilt will be handed down the family tree in years to come. The borders were also machine embroidered.