an original design

Flying star quilt - modification of Lone Star. Hung in corner of guest room on point. 

This quilt was made for my fourth grandson. I thought he needed something special because everything else would be hand-me-down. It was machine appliqued and machine quilted. 

Luminescent rainbow colors on a black background.

I had wanted to make a picture quilt with non traditional fabrics/colors for a long time and when I saw the photo of this little toad I knew I had to give it a try.  He is machine appliqued with heavy thread painting on a hand painted background.

I made this quilt from a quick sketch I did of a flowering vine. I usually work with bright, bold colors and a black background. I challenged myself to step outside that genre and use pastels with my bright, bold fabrics. 

I've done a series of art quits inspired by etchings my husband created.  The images are based on the Mexican card game "Loteria."

This quilt was made from Moda's "Lost City, Cuzco" by Kate Spain.  Cuzco (also spelled Qusqu) is a city in the Peruvian Andes which was once the capital of the Inca empire. 

Applique and patchwork quilt of red/green and white pieces with a large deer leaping through the snow in the center.

The "Fly Me to the Moon" contest gave me the opportunity to realize the long-cherished plan of making a "Happy Villages" quilt. Since I saw Karen Eckmeier's instructions in the AQS magazine and later in the QuiltShow, it needed only this challenge to combine the technique with my own photos taken during our trip along the beautiful Amalfi coast. My handdyed fabrics, actually failed and saved for a quilt backing, fit the required size and the moonlight reflections on the first sketch perfectly, lucky me.

2016 started with a mail that this quilt was juried into the FMTTM collection and will travel for at least four years.

This quilt was made using the Dakota pattern from BJ Designs and Patterns.  So much fun to make.  

The first of 2 twin grandbabe quilts. The 2nd quilt will have yellow prints replacing the green. I used Minky on the back - so it will be warm & soft. The animal print was a thrift store FIND! - & it's the actual print used by the quilt designer - I already had the pattern from Fons & Porter Magazine!

I created this small triptych to reflect my boys at the beach -- here's what I wrote on the back label: "Sands of Time" represents each boy, around age 10, and as viewed through past memories -- a look back at each of them at this golden age, and of the scenes played out over & over again on beaches everywhere -- little boys, and big brothers, and sand castles, and moms & dads watching & realizing that time is as fleeting and fragile as the sand castles built & washed away, day to day and year to year. 

The background is improvisational curved piecing, and the scene is raw edge applique. I used a photo printed on cardstock to create my template, cutting out first the full image, tracing around that, then cutting away here and there to be able to trace the detail portions (arms, legs, face, head, clothing, etc.), and then used those cut-aways to cut the additional applique portions (the hair & clothing are appliqued onto the flesh-toned "body", and then the whole person is appliqued onto the pieced background). Small details (eyes, nose, etc) are drawn on with pigma ink pens. The photos appliqued around the edges are printed on printable fabric and appliqued in place & outlined around each photo. 

The first two frames in the triptych are in sepia tone to reflect that they are in the past, while the final frame has the main scene in color to reflect it is my current "present day," viewed through the images of the past (thus the photos around the edge still printed in sepia tone). 

I chose to frame these instead of bind them, as they will be hung like photos in my sewing room. Each frame is 8"x10". 

This is a confetti pieced art quilt. I lived  in England for a few years. This quilt reminds me of the walks I took in the great gardens and Castles. The wall is hand painted pieces each attached  individually. My quilt is in my living room I love looking at the path it really brings you in. It has many  bags of confetti fabrics I cut for weeks!

This was done at a class in Sedro Wooley, WA.  It won Best of Class and Best of Show for the Quilting at the NW Washington Fair

I made this quilt top in 2005.  It was made with blue and yellow scraps from my own scrap bag, as well as scraps from fellow quilters, and a few fat quarters.  I paper-pieced it from a pattern from Anita Grossman Solomon.  I FINALLY got around to quilting it because I recently bought a long arm machine, and started with all my old UFO's.  I named the quilt after a song by The Judds.  

I took a few classes with Marilyn Bedford and have enjoyed them very much. I deduced to make this quilt of our friends that have been together for over 45 years now and just tied the knot. This was from a photo I too on a cruise we were on together.

The map is a whole cloth quilt that was made with a printed stabilizer from Haptic Labs.  I painted the water and park areas to add interest and reference to the map.  The finished quilt is stretched across a customer frame that I made with 1 x 2" lumber.