Tracking Dinosaurs - My grandson's quilt had to feature his favorite dinosaurs, so I created the appliqué dinosaur blocks, using batik fabrics. Additional "jungle" areas added interest around the center panel and dinosaur blocks. The sashing was the perfect spot to add appliqué footprints for tracking. This quilt includes machine appliqué, hand embroidery & machine quilting on my Janome 6600 home machine.

Painted Plumeria - I was inspired by my 3 years of living in Hawaii to make a Hawaiian-style quilt. I hand-painted all of the fabric, using freezer paper as "stencils".

Blue By You - A self challenge to use one yard cuts of eight different blues and eight different whites. Each fabric has it's own distinct placement in the block.

Stars for Jinny - Mini Lone Stars dispersed with kaleidoscope blocks. Jinny Beyer border print used for 1st mitered border and outer mitered border.

Regal Intrigue - The rich blues, reds and golds give this quilt a very regal tone. The mitered borders are made from a Jinny Beyer border print.

Georgia Mountain Morning - This quilt has well over 100 different fabrics. Every hue, tint and shade of the reds and blacks were combined together and it worked out wonderfully.

A Life of Its Own - I drew the skink on my computer, printed it on fabric & appliquéd it. Trapunto was used at different levels to emphasize the floral design I created by Broderie Pierce.

Springtime - The original pattern called for 4 squares of the bearded iris but I opted to just use it once and add my designs of a rose, a lily and a pansy. Color choices and quilting design choices were my own.

The Crooked Path - This quilt was accepted into the AAQI Alzheimer's: Forgetting Piece by Piece show. Handpainted whole cloth background, echo quilted to the brush strokes. Path is organza, focal point is burned through the fabric.

Civil War Wall Hanging - I made this while taking a series of Jo Morton classes at Cousin's Quilt Shop in Bellaire, MI. I just love Jo Morton's fabrics and have quite a collection of them that I add to when I can. I thought that I wanted to use some of them up and then when I did, I went out and got some more. I've got to have my Jo Morton apparently! :-)

Garan's quilt - I changed the borders

Cone Flower Quilt - I loved this pattern and the fabric so much when I saw it in the Connecting Threads magazine. I mentioned it to my friend and she said "Oh, I already bought and made it. I have enough left over for you to make another one". So she gave me the left-over material and the pattern. I was short on some of the gold, I believe, but otherwise, it is the same as the original. I have used this to teach other women how to needle-turn applique. I still love this and even more once I got it quilted. My quilter, Kathy Burkitt, did a marvelous job.

Baby Quilt - This was a scrappy quilt that I gifted to a friend upon the birth of her first child (a boy). I used bigger scraps for the pinwheels and smaller scraps for the prairie point inner border and the multicolored binding. I bought a couple yards of the fun monkey fabric years ago and have used it in 7 baby quilts. I wish I could find more of it!

Maple Leaf - I won the fabric on line and took many months and a design wall to complete the idea. The original quilt had a barn on the centre and was done in other colours. Without a pattern I had to figure out each section as I went along.

Wildflower Wall Hanging - One of the local quilt shops wanted me to teach hand applique. So I picked these patterns out of one of my many quilt books and made it up for the class. I'm crazy about the border fabric. It just screams "me"!

Simon's ABC quilt - I made this quilt for our first grandchild. Knowing my daughter was decorating the nursery with an alphabet wall, I chose to design an alphabet quilt using different fonts and sizes of letters. I tried to use a different fabric for each letter but ended up repeating three fabrics because I couldn't find enough prints in the colorway combination she had requested: aqua, lime, gray, white and black. I hand appliqued the letters, but machine pieced the blocks and border, and then used a friend's long arm to quilt in a meandering pattern. I kept the design a surprise until I gave it to my daughter at her baby shower. She was thrilled with it, and uses it as the backdrop for weekly photos of our grandson.

Blue Ice - 80 scrap paper pieced blocks. I fell in love with the border fabric and then designed the yo yo flowers and stems. This took many, many hours. I would make the blocks and take them with me on trips to Visit my children. Strange looks from people on the plane while I tore the paper off.