Get Well Naomi-O - This was my fourth quilt; I made this for my neighbor’s daughter who has cancer. I wanted make something to cheer her up. I also had her older sisters help with the design and color scheme. I printed the pictures on special fabric, boy that stuff is so cool. The appliqué images were drawn on freezer paper by Naomi’s sister and I machine appliquéd them on. I gave Naomi a special marking pen for fabric, so she can have all her friends, family, and doctors write special get well messages on the quilt.

Crazy Quilt from block of the month class - This Crazy Quilt is constructed using my technique. You sew one time, and that is when you embellish your seams. I cleaned out my button jar on this quilt. Blocks are 16" and sashing is 2" I made a crazy quilt from one of my daughters wedding dresses. It was difficult to insert lace and trim with the seams already sewn. I did not like sewing it on top and ripping to tuck ends in. I designed a technique for block construction that allows you to insert lace and trim under an unsewn seam. It is better for me, to have a finished block first, then decide where I want lace. Once you decide what and where you want you trims to be place, then you sew one time and the seam and the trim is all done in one step. I love this technique and so do my students. The method can be used on clothing also. I do sell this pattern and my patterns are published by me under Dean Deerfield Designs.

Angel In My Garden - An English Garden, mostly done in silk, embellished in silk ribbon and beads, with a little gold angel tac pin, with my birth stone in it, at the top of the tallest holly hock. Pin was a gift from one of my daughters. The quilt has won first place in a challenge offered by Victorian Pleasures in Canada, first place in the Midland Quilt show in small wall hangings, Second Pleace in Roswell New Mexico, and Second Place in the Black Hills Quilt show in Rapid City SD My quilt was published in Quilting Arts Magazine in their 2nd and 3rd editions.

Thumbelina - The quilt depicks Thumbelina being pulled down stream by the butterfly as she was escaping from the ugly frog who wanted to marry her.

Chris n Tammy 4ever - I made this qall quilt in honor of my daughter and son-in-laws five wedding anniversay. Reminders of promises made to one another as well as before God.

Chess, Anyone? - Chess, Anyone? was commissioned as a suprise Christmas for Valerie's husband. He is an avid chess player, so I was very careful that the board squares were in the correct position as well as the pieces. Valerie reports that he was surprised and pleased.

Christmas cactus

Catnip - My first applique project.

Happy Birthday Quilt - My daughter & I are selling these as baby gifts. We also have patterns with presents, one with balloons and one with part hats. We will personalize it with a name and date.

I SPY Quilt - Quilt made for great grand nephew Isaac born January 30, 2007. The yellow border helped make those fussy cut blocks pop. Very hard to see, but used a pantograph quilting pattern with each row with either solid or varigated thread A great to test new threads and pantograph patterns. I quilted a row of ducks, kitty heads, tractors, dinsauors, motorcyles w/eagles, tree/bear/wolf. The blue border I used the glow in the dark thread. My mother-in-law delived the quilt this pass weekend.

Donna's Retirement Quilt - Reversible Quilt was made as a teacher retirement gift for my sister-in-law using fabric prints about Donna's life such as canoeing, nature, music, wolves, teaching, and many more aspects of Donna's life. Collage of photos for interior of quilt of family, friends, theater and dance groups, becoming a wolf nanny, teacher friends, trips. Photo is of quilt front. The quilt back is pieced of large pillow square blocks.

Mardi Gras Carnival - Mardi Gras Carnival is an "Opportunity" quilt, a quilt designed and made by a group of quilters to raise money for our local guild, The Foothill Quilters. We were inspired by Rachel Wetzler's award winning quilt, Fandango. Many thanks to Rachel.

Alaska Photo Album - This quilt showcases the images in The Last Frontier Fabric by Robert Kaufman. It is a great pattern for using photographs.

Springtime on Stagecoach Trail - Challenge for Mountain Art Quilters Group in Nevada County, CA.

Tropical Rays - Inspired by photograph taken in Hawaii with the sun rays breaking through the leaves. The rays are foundation pieced. Quilted on an HQ-16 with numerous specialty threads, including bobbin couching of silk ribbon floss and Razzle Dazzle.

Family Hands (and Paws) - Traced family hands and paws. Used Steam-a-Seam to make two blocks, a positive and a negative. This is a great project for a group.

Luminous Study - Luminosity study, journal quilt challenge

Fibonacci Quilt - Members of a group made the blocks after a Math and Quilt lesson by me! The Fibonacci series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, was used to cut the squares to sew together.