Those cats are in the flower bed again - I saw the book at a show and just had to give it a go!

Desmond learning to fly - My Granddaughter had a story she loved me to read to her. Desmond was a poorly young dragon. He had bumps on his back that hurt and his Mummy called the doctor. Next morning he was feeling better but he had these funny things on his back - his Mummy laughed and said they were wings and sent him into the garden to learn how to fly, the butterflies said they would show him how. The quilt group I belong to gave us a challenge to use a given piece of fabric in a quilt no bigger that 24" Square so my desmond was born - the challenge fabric is in the celtic border, it's the one with flowers. The background was painted and the flowers and butterflies are Broiderie Perse. The sun is aceltic knot embroidered over the painted sun. this quilt won a Merit for original design at the quilt show put on by my group later that year.

Posies In Plaid - I used the appliqued flowers patterns from Piece O'Cake Plaids n' Stripes book, but changed the sashing/setting. I also used Ricky's piped binding technique...and it turned out great! Posies In Plaid won an Honorable Mention ribbon in the Medium Applique category at my guild's recent quilt show. I felt it needed to be hand quilted since it was hand appliqued, so I ventured in to my first hand quilting since the days I first learned to lap quilt with Georgia Bonesteel! I loved quilting by hand!

Jackson's Baby quilt - Little Jackson has a sports theme room.

Stars and Stripes - This is my second quilt. A queen size star block with alternate stripes, made for my son who loves the red, white and blue colors.

Kaleidescopic Journey From day into Night - Dark blue background with various sized individually drafted kaleidescopes. Cotton and cotton lame' fabrics used. Quilted with variegated cotton thread.

maidenshead - Using removable white chalk I free-hand drew my interpretation of a da Vinci sketch. The classic line study of a maiden's head seemed to be a good choice for the deep-blue and purple hand-dyed fabric from the Ricky Tims fabric collection. This is the 2nd in a series of da Vinci interpretations that I am currently working on. At the time of this photo, the sketching was complete and ready for quilting. With this quilt, I am having the quilting done on an APQS Millennium by Marilyn Badger.

My First Finished Quilt - This 45" by 45" wall hanging uses Asian prints

what Is Black & White & Red All Over? - I started this quilt in a class with Jan Krentz. It is from her Lone Star book. I wanted to do it in Red, White and Black. I am doing a lot of quilts now in those colors. Cathy did a great job quilting it for me. I add swarovski crystals to give it some bling. I won a blue ribbon and Cathy won Best Machine Quilting at the Raleigh Capital Quilter's Guild show this past May.

Mary's Star - I drew this with Electric Quilt and it was made for a dear friend for her wedding gift.

Prince of Toads - Made this for a new baby in the family and I haven't used brites or wild prints before. This was fun!

Andreas Galaxy - The block name is Patiences Corner (sp). It is for my daughter and is a wip...for a few years now..She picked out the blue which fades from deep blue to a lighter blue. The wow has stars and moons on it to compliment the stars in the blue. I did all the moon faces by hand. In the outer border I am using a silver metallic thread in a shooting star design. I started out doing it by achine but I didnt like the ay the thread kept tangling so I took out what I did and am finishing it by hand. Once that it done it just needs binding.

Starry Starry Night - This was my first quilt. I made this as a wall quilt for my brother-in-law's birthday. He picked the quilt from a picture in the book "Watercolor Impressions" by Magaret & Slusser, because it reminded him of an Escher painting He did not know that I would be making it for him.

Poppies My Dear? - Done in Quilt University Class taught by Susan Brittingham-Flower Power. Wonderful class, I learned so much

Penquins Leaving - Just to show you that I do not always do quilts showing pain, I thought I would add this penquin one - again done for my color theory class - illumination. Now hanging in my living room - love this one.

Poinsettia Wreath

Houses and Barns - One of the humbling experiences that we get in quilting. When I was part way through quilting this top I realized that some of the windows had been turned upside down, and were now small doors. So I just renamed the quilt "houses and barns".

purple roses - the block centers are fussy cut kalidescope style