Mary Ellen's Garden - I decided to use scraps to make this quilt and I like to applique and piece so this pattern filled the bill. Even though it's completed I still have lots of scraps left!

Holiday Lane Pillow - I purchased this through the Jillily Studio web-site as a kit. Though I'm giving it as a gift, I now want to make one for myself.

Orange anyone? - I had this fixation with small orange prints and started collecting them while at the same time loving the cover quilt on The Quilter magazine. Sharon Meyers quilting with a large daisy motif really finished it off nicely.

Springtime Elegance - Based on Ricky Tim's convergence quilts. I used a beautiful commercial floral fabric and also two self patterned fabrics, I cut out flowers from the floral fabric and appliqued them on. I had fun machine quilting flowers and other shapes on and then added some swarvoski crystals.

Floral Dreaming - I mixed Derwent pencils into a paint and painted the surface I then discharged for a subtle blotched look. I then quilted the surface. In reality it has a 3D look. It was done on plain white cotton fabric.

Daughter's Tranquil Inspirations - My daughter looked at me over some flowers and so I kept asking her to look at me in the same way as she walked through so that I could paint her. I used Derwent pencils and I also made paint out of the pencils and painted the surface. I appliqued flowers and then stitched the eyes and eyebrows, hair and flowers etc. I took the flowers over the edge. The eyes are quite a good likeness. I had fun.

Reindeer leaping - Over 50% hand dyed and painted fabrics. Reindeer is flannel with faux chenille mane and fetlocks, and trapunto padding. Holly border is commercial print, overdyed to match color scheme.

Leap Frog - This is a pattern that I designed. It can be purchased at patternspot.com

"Give Peas A Chance" - Now that we are trying to stick to a vegan diet, we look at Thanksgiving dinner differently. I struggled with the title. The working title was "It's All About The Sides." That then changed into "Tom's Thanksgiving Tip: Try The Turnips." Finally, my 10 year old grandson (who wouldn't eat peas if you bribed him) came up with the best one of all!

"Spruce it up" - I Loved the design when I saw it in a magazine(Swirling Branches by RaNaeMerrill) and I love spruce trees so this is a combination of both!!

Memories of Japan - Our niece spent some of her college time in Japan and loves Japanese designs. I used mostly Kona Bay fabrics to make a quilt for her when she got married in April 2011.

The Librarian in L-space - Sir Terry Pratchett's series of Discworld books have the orangutan librarian. I made the quilt for a charity auction and ended up buying it myself as it didn't get close to enough for a donation IMO.

Nebula - Using some of Ricky Tim's hand dyed bits and pieces, this emerged.

A little boys construction dream quilt - I made this quilt for my "Great Nephew" for Christmas! He loves construction vehicles, and when I found this piece of fabric I had to make it into this little boys quilt. One image of each vehicle make up the blocks on the front. I quilted this free motion, upside down, on my domestic machine using the shapes of the vehicles as the pattern for the quilting. I also used dark blue thread in the bobbin so that the quilting would show up on the front!

Fairy Splendor - These fairies are a fabric panel I found, and just had to make into a quilt for my "Great Niece" for Christmas. The backing is a flannel alphabet fabric in peach fabric. I did free motion quilting on my domestic machine and embellished it with some crystals on the wings, as an earing, and as dew drops on the flower petals. The batting is a cotton ~ after reading on TQS about the fire danger of the poly batts!

Summer skies table runner - This table runner is a quilt as you go pattern, easy to make, and fun design! Cannot remember the name of the pattern designer, but it sure was easy and fun to make!

Lots of Love - This is my first bed-sized quilt. I made it for my mother-in-law.