Jeans and stars - Denim fabric from years of my husband's work pants....the stars are reverse applique all by machine and then the edges are all snipped to allow it to "chenille". It has no batting but the back and front are denim and the inner part is the red cotton fabric. It ended up quite heavy. Each block was done in a quilt as you go style.

Winners #1

Fraktur Bird - I designed a fabric wall hanging based on a bird designed by my mother, fraktur artist Meryl Griffiths. I adapted it to use with a stained glass technic.

Blinded by the Sun

Brunhilda - Fun project with embroidered wrinkles, a 3-D padded nose which is attached only at the base, button eyes and wart. I tacked a silk flower on the hat band and used some glow in the dark fabric. Her hair is embroidery floss that I curled by running it along the blade of scissors like curling ribbon.... sewn down like the center part on a wig.

Dearie with perm - Detail of Brunhilda's hair and nose.

Theres a new cowboy coming to town - We have a new cowboy on his way he should be here in late May. So I quilted him up a few pairs of boots so's he can go ridin' in style with his cowboy grandpa and cowgirl grandma when he gets here.

Tumbling Monkeys - My first applique quilt, made for the grandson of a co-worker. The bright and cheerful colors seem to delight the baby --- hooray. The pattern was designed by the talented Heidi Pridemore.

red, white and blue - It took me hours of reversing and rerunning the Sewing with Nancy show to get this pattern. I've looked for the show to buy the book and cannot find it. I'd love the book that was featured.

Garden Blessings - I chose to pair simple raw-edge fusible appliqued flowers with a traditional expanded nine-patch block for a beginner-friendly quilt that I could teach to my quilt students.

Spring's Blooms - Wall hanging in bright spring colors 22" x 42" made for birthday present.

Folk Art Sampler - Appliqued wreath surrounded by pieced sampler blocks bordered by appliqued swags with a log cabin block on each corner. Densly quilted in echo style, swirls and leaves and feather designs

Winter Night - " A picture of a cold windy winter's night under a misty moon". Pieced in an assortment of blues, blacks, and greys in a random piecing style. Free motion quilted to show the wind swirling around the tree.

Spring to Fall - A landscape design of trees on a pieced background. The reason I named this one "Spring to Fall" was because I couldn't decide on whether to use spring leaves or fall leaves so I used both .

My Watercolor Calendar - This was a Block-of-the-Month in which I changed several of the blocks to reflect the months.

Mark's comfy quilt - Gift for my husband with a bunch of soft cotton fabrics.

TWO Scrapbook of 20 Years - A scrapbook quilt of our Organization's conferences and events. Really fun to do!!

Oklahoma Twister - Made for our Organization's 2009 Annual Conference.