Friendship Triangle Quilt from SOTT’s Exchange - This quilt has over 900 half-square triangles from the Sisterhood of the Traveling Half Square Triangles which had 49 States and 19 Countries participate in the exchange. I adapted the pattern from a quilt I saw on line and had made from a sample quilt.

Roman Tiles - I used the St. Mark's Wallhanging pattern started in a Norah McMeeking workshop but split the circle and turned the quadrants. Then I adapted Roman tile foliage designs for a quilting pattern to fill in the black silk/cotton areas. After quilting I painted with a touch of Lumiere paint to emphasize the design. Center star, borders, corners and quilting all my own design

Picnic~Racers - My first "Modern" Quilt (a picnic blanket) when grandsons visit. The pattern placement of blocks allow 'the boys' to race cars from the start line (see flags bottom far right) over light colored wonky blocks, around corners, onto the finish line flags at the top right block. The Zen String throughout quilt top is echoed, creating a pathway wide enough for matchbox size cars to race a different course. If you look closely,to the far left of the quilt (on the wall) you will see a "Hot Wheels race car". On July 16 I took "Picnic~Racers" to the university, part of an art exhibit titled, "The Feel Good Gallery" open to the public through end September. There is still more quilting I would like to add, (especially around the pillow area) where I drew in thread a few images of cars, road signs and lettering once "Picnic ~ Racers" returns home this Fall. Hidden within some of the FMQ are a few written messages- I love writing within the quilting to be found later by those who study the quilting!

Red and White - This was a mystery quilt that I chanced the pattern to make it bigger

Quilt for Abby - I saw this quilt and loved the idea so I found the perfect pink cowgirl fabric and using the fon and porter design made this quilt. I used all square in a square instead came out beautiful I emblished this quilt with a rawhide fringe very cool and a few appliques Then for the back I used solid fabic with a dog print with the square in the square and a triangle design pattern look with a few appliques to hit problems. the label is the coolist a dog and cat stand on one end of the label and the information files the lower square Love this quilt

going in circles - took 3 years to complete.never want to see another circle again. has over 95 different materials.

Lieveling - This quilt is made for Showband De Blaasbalgen from Leidschendam The Netherlands. I named the quilt after the song Lieveling (Sweetheart), they played for my youngest daughter, Nina. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmbS6iCGxT0

Pride of the Prairie - I had the honor of making this years raffle quilt for my guild, The Gems of the Prairie. 46 members helped by paper-piecing the red and cream points and I finished the rest. Over 100 fabrics were used and wool batting. Sherrie Coppenbarger added the beautiful quilting. The raffle will be in December, 2012. Quilt designed by Dolores Smith & Sarah Maxwell.

I'd Rather Be Fishing - My husband needed a new cubicle quilt for his new job. He's an avid fly fisherman, and tied the fly that the trout is leaping toward.

Hills and Fields of Alabama - After watching Carol Ann Waugh on The Quilt Show, I decided to try her basic method, however it is not a copy at all but only used her method as a starting point.

Blue-green dahlia

Scrappy Stars - This quilt is totally scrappy. I used only fabrics that were in my stash, so I even pieced the back. Some of the fabrics are up to 20 years old.

Chateau Chillon - This quilt was my first real try at capturing a photo in fabric. I did this as my project for an online class with Quilt University entitled "On Land & Sea", taught by Susan Brittingham.

Gosito - I wanted to try my hand at machine applique using the blind hem stitch. This was a great pattern for that, but I like my color choices better than those on the pattern.

Things are not always what they seem - My son wanted a triangular quilt and I wanted to try the Kaleidoscope block, together with some M.C. Escher-like geometric shapes. It was a real challenge to combine all that in one quilt!

Welsh Quilting Revisited - Double-sided quilt inspired by Welsh and Amish quilters. Simple piecing in neutral colors, using a silk/cotton blend and wool batting, shows off the elaborate hand-quilted Welsh designs.