Bedtime Blankie - I started working on this quilt while I was caring for my elderly mother. The applique was portable and I could work on it while I was sitting with her in the hospital. The teddybears made her smile.

Dirt Devils

Tidepool

Magnolia - The State Flower of Louisiana - Machine Appliqued, 100% cotton fabric

Jocelyn's Flowers - I made this for my granddaughter,Jocelyn. The backing is Minkee fabric, which is deliciously soft.

Nancy Martha - This pattern was produced by Silver Thimble/New Beginnings Designs.

Cali's Quilt - This is my first completed quilt. I took a beginning quiltmaking class and we created sampler blocks. It is primarily pieced but there is one hand appliqued heart on it.

Grinch Quilt - This was a kit I received as a gift.

Nos Aieuls (Our ancestors) - Earlier in 2006 I made 2 crossword quilts, one for my Mother Doris Léger (née Bourque) and one for my brother in law Gilles Babin. A few weeks after my mother was given the quilt my uncle Laurie was shown the quilt. He asked my mother if he could show the quilt during the Congress mondial 2006 Bourque family reunion, when my mother mentioned this to me I got the idea to do a 3rd quilt as a memory of the families who founded l’Acadie. As I started doing research it became apparent that this project would be of mammoth proportion in doing and in a completed quilt as there are over 800 familes who founded l’acadie. Through la Société des acadiens et des acadiennes de Nouveau Brunswick I was able to obtain a list of all the family names who had deported. This quilt is not about the deportation but of some of the families who had a hand in making l’Acadie what it is today. This quilt is in part the genealogy of the Acadians, it show how we are all intertwined making us one strong family.

Frog in a blender - One day on my way home I saw a child walking home with a black and white checkered backpack with some minimum color added. For the rest of the way home I kept thinking of the back pack I had just seen. A few days later I put needle to fabric and made the Frog in the blender quilt.

around the block - I was looking though a book of ceramic designs from around the world when I found a pattern I particularly liked. After a bit of calculating and modifying my Around the Block quilt was created. The book was Geometric Patterns & Borders, by David Wade (A non quilting book).

A Little New Lebanon Fun - While at the retreat I need discarded fabrics to use as my leaders and enders. Seeing that Ron and discarded small pieces of Fabric I decided that those would do the job. Once I had taken the fabric I noticed that the discarded pieces were of a size big enough that I could do a miniature quilt. Once the top was finished I did give it to Ron as a gift but then took it back as I felt I should finish the quilt. The mini quilt was given back to Ron on September 27, 2012.

Malachi's Promise

Sisters - Based on a photo of my sisters and I.

Shelby's Quilt - I made this quilt for my oldest daughter completely off the top of my head.

Pandora's Valentine - Hand appliqued, machine pieced, machine quilted using freehand and ruler techniques on an A-1 longarm machine. My 11th longarm quilt!