20 " x 20" block size

This was a one day workshop piece. 

This quilt was made for a friend to use as a cover for her Mah Jongg table.  She has a beautiful vintage set with cherry red accessories that she wanted to match.  Because the game table is small, and tiles remain face up during play, the center design element needed to be limited - and everything needed to be very secure to withstand the mixing and passing of tiles.  Those of you who play will recognize The Wall in the beige embroidered fabric, the racks in the outer strip sets, and flowers being passed during the Charleston in the corners.  This was a wonderful project to design and quilt - I hope it brings her much luck at the table!

The pattern for this quilt was made by tracing a photo of caladiums in my flower bed onto white fabric.  The veins were made by heavily quilting the leaves.  Then the unit was cut out and appliqued to the black background.  An extra layer of batting was added behind the leaves before the final quilting.

The root cellar is an abstraction of a picture I took of a root cellar in New Foundland, Canada.

I was working on a series of buildings when this image came to me in the middle of the night. Luckily I remembered it in the morning.

My mother showed me how to construct this block at a quilt camp.  All it took was a few fat quarters and some border fabric and a quilt was made.

I began this quilt in a Jan Krentz Summer Salsa workshop in 2006 and finished it in 2015.   the pattern is involved but not that difficult.  Lesson learned - it's hard to pick up where you left off!  

I designed my own paper pieced setting squares and am very happy with the result.  I liked it so much I asked a wonderful long arm quilter in our guild, Merry Jo Rembold to quilt it and the quilting is gorgeous - makes he quilt!

Raw edged applique inspired by a photo taken at the Naples Zoo.

Starfire is a pattern on my web site www.compositions-in-cloth.com. I've found a new way to draw paper-piecing patterns. I'd really like to get some feedback on the pattern so I'm offering this one as a free-bee. Please have a peek and tell me what you think. Go to-  http://compositions-in-cloth.com/?page_id=79
 

Burlap & Silks; machine quilted; fused.

8 X 8; silks; paintsticks; domestic machine

Baby tiger walking along the marsh--tail a wagging. The sky is woven, the ground mosaic pieced, the tiger painted with lots of thread painting.

A modified version of Ricky's Lady of Shalott quilt.  I chose to do solid, elaborately quilted and glitter-painted pieces instead of the log cabinish pieced center.  The quilting designs were also my own. 

A wholecloth I designed for my friend for her baby girl.  The back is a ribbed cuddle fabric, the front is a light green fairy frost.  It was quilted using a variety of pink and purple Superior Brytes threads.

This quilt was made to celebrate my husband & I's 20th years of marriage and 20 years of Christmas' together.  The label reads "Celebrating 20years of our love being our greatest gift to each other"

A LeMoyne star quilt. The multicolored stars are originally beautiful black and white fabric that I "fussy" cut, then colored with fabric markers. The solid colored stars calm the quilt down and allow the multicolored stars to stand out.

Inspired by a beautiful quilt "Comets" by Jan Beckert in a 2007 Quilters Newsletter edition. The quilt block is "Judy in Arabia". The block offers many possibilities, depending on color choice. 

I chose to emphasize the circular pattern of the interlocking blocks in a small wall quilt.