Fall Leaves

Fietsherinnering - Visited the church in Ribbe, Denmark during my bicycle travels along the Northsea coast and decided that that window would be my next quilt.

Lucious Lavendar - I think everyones favorite colors is Purple. I enjoyed putting this quilt together and the richness of the color. Additionally, I enjoyed exploring and improving my machine quilting skills. I quilted this on my home machine. This quilt just won First Place in the machine quilting category at the 2007 Pigeon Forge Quiltfest. Needless to say I was very excited.

Woof Woof - I used EQ6 to design this quilt and based it on one of their patterns. I also scanned the fabrics so I could see what it would look like with the fabrics I chose. I quilted it on my Viking Megaquilter and the quilting pattern just says "woof woof woof" all the way across the quilt. Gale is a dog lover.

Hannah Heads North - Made during Hurricane Hannah, hence the title.

Bzzzz - Partly pieced, partly appliqued, this quilt is striking for its use of color and clever construction. I don't do much applique, but I had to make this one. It appeared in my guild's 2004 quilt show.

Shiraz and Chardonnay - My guild had a mystery quilt challenge a few years ago. I'd never done a mystery quilt before so I decided to make this one. All the participants showed their quilts at one of the regular meetings and it was amazing the different looks that could be achieved with one pattern.

The Usual Suspects - My mini group did this challenge. We are called "The Merry Cats" so we made a cat quilt. Each group member made enough blocks to share with the others, and I made two extras so I could have nine blocks total. Some of the cats have those plastic eyes that are made for dolls and stuffed animals, some have button eyes, and one is wearing sunglasses. They all looked so guilty that I thought "The Usual Suspects" was a great name for the quilt.

size does matter - Make the quilt for my daughters twin bed but she has a full size bed now. So the quilt doesn't fit. So now it will go to Portugal.

going to Portugal - It just a pretty quilt that makes to want to look at all the fabrics used.

a sick lady - When I made this quilt I was very sick. And I gave it to my daughters friend for christmas. Thank goodnes she loved it.

1948 idian chief in red - 90% completed, done soon..

Feather Flurry - This was made for auction for the Ami Simms Alzheimer's Priority Quilts . It shoud be up for auction in May of 2007 UPDATE: It sold for $175 to benefit Alzheiners research!

Still crazy after all these years - This is a journal quilt that I did for the Month of February. I always wanted to try crazy quilting and this small size was perfect. I probably spent about 20 or more hours on it and could have spent 10 more!!

2001 Diary Quilt - 384 blocks - one for each day of year, month, holidays for 2001 - 3 blocks for 9/11. Depicts daily life happenings during 2001 for DH and self. All hand written.

Oscar Bird - Raw edge applique and threadplay - my very first art quilt depicts a Military macaw, Oscar, who spent his first three years being physically and verbally abused. He now lives in a home who loves him very much with people he trusts.

Hot Cocoa - I created this quilt from my stash of hot colored batiks to honor our dog Cocoa. I machine appliqued the faces. I free motion machine quilted each block with coordinating thread to the background in swirls. I used Ricky's technique of not having a binding that I learned on Alex's show.

Cathedral Windows - Cathedral Windows hand stitched using Country Blue print and White muslin. Sixteen months start to finish. Then given to my Son/Daughter-in-law at their wedding.