Blue Hawaiian Hibiscus - Using needle turn appliqué and Hawaiian echo quilting the flowers appear to be floating on the blue Hawaiian sea.

Victoria's T- Shirt Quilt - Using my daughter's T-shirt from her athletic, academic and music activities, each t-shirt square was stabilized and surrounded by fabrics that went along with all of her activities - it was like making a puzzle! Meander quilting design with hidden messages!

Max's Quilt - I had never tried tumbling blocks until this quilt. I had three solid fabrics and decided that was the perfect block. I love the depth. This quilt is for a baby's room, but I want to make one now with beautiful batiks.

Hexagon Flower - This wall quilt took my quilting to the next level. I quilted it on my Janome 6600. I traced the border feathers onto tissue paper & free-motion quilted those. The cross hatching was tedious, but easy to do.

Friendship Knot - This is 1 of 5 quilts I inherited from my grandmother. Her mother made all of them. It took me awhile to find the name of this block.

Irish Chain - This is 1 of 5 quilts I inherited. I am the last of my dad's line. His grandmother is said to have made them.

Christmas 1 - I love machine emb. Last year I purchased these bird designs with Christmas songs (birdhouses this year) and thought about "1" quilt-well to see them all I needed to make at least four. Thank you to EmroideryLibrary and all the wonderful designs.Lets not forget all the thread mfgrs. R/A Isacord, Superior, Maderia,Sulky.

Christmas2 - My series of Christmas embroidery. Every year I make I Christmas quilt/wall hanging. This is part of this years series. I took almost all year to do 32 designs then figure out I needed more. Something to tie them all together. That's where this years birdhouses came to be.

Christmas3 - #3 of Christmas songs. These were so cute and I got to use ALL my threads.

Christmas4 - #4 Christmas birds and the holiday season. Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making and assembling them. Everyone have a wonderful holiday season. PEACE!!

Tree of Life - many, many multicolored 2/2 inch blocks, sewn toigether to form areas of sea, swamp, forest, mountains, desert and sky. Tree stitched on in tread. Animals, black and white felt were inspired by Native American motives. Upper and lower border have embroidered texts from Darwin and Chief Seattle.

Advent Scramble - Advent calendar with scrambled numbered pockets - applique, paint, quilt, embellishments to delight my grandkids.

Peace and Plenty - This quilt is an updated version of a block called "Peace and Plenty". I've made this quilt at a time in my life when I have peace and I have plenty for which I am grateful to my Heavenly Father.

Yes, Christmas is coming - I followed Alex Anderson's class on The Quilt Show.com when I made this quilt. It is paper pieced and long arm quilted.

Hero Star - This is a Quilt of Valor I created from my improvisational "Star and Points Spinning in a Square". I used 100% quilter's cotton Valor fabric, 80/20 Hobbs batting, Omni poly wrapped poly by Superior Threads for the longarm. Design is totally 6" squares and half square triangles.

Treasure Chest by Quilt in a Day - This was a free download pattern that I used to sharpen my quilting technique. I had to add four squares to get it large enough for my son's King size bed. I used wool batting and free motion quilted it myself. I used a stitch in the ditch for the boarders around each square.

Cockscombs, Tulips and Berries - This quilt is one of my favorites. Most of my quilts are given as gifts, but this one is mine. I found the pattern in a book I had purchased and I just had to make it. The background fabric is a tone on tone print of pomegranates. I loved this piece of fabric and knew it was best used in large pieces. I also had fun collecting blue fabrics that would work with the focus fabric. Techniques used are needle turned applique, reverse applique, machine piecing and machine quilting. The beautiful free form quilting on the background was done by Ruth Stonesifer. I did the quilting within the applique pieces.

Give Thanks - I REALLY like Cynthia England's "Picture Piecing" although it's not everyone's cup of tea. It can be a bit hard to find great Thanksgiving-themed; this one spoke to me. I tried a little trapunto in the letters to make them puff out more, but it's hard to tell that it's there. Oh, well, nothing ventured, nothing gained! I was happy with the touch of fabric paint on corn and pears, giving them just a bit more dimension. This time: ventured and gained!