This is a paper-pieced block I made for my niece Debbie. It is the first quilt I have ever quilted on my little sewing machine.

This pattern designed by Verna Mosquera just called to me. I used all my own fabrics and took the liberty of exchanging the Pink Poodle for the image of my Black Labradoodle Maximus. I had fun choosing fabrics and enbelishments to complement is very french style.

"Canyon of My Mind" is a result of a visit to Page, Arizona. After marveling at the natural wonders within Antelope Canyon I was inspired to create fabric art of my photos from this wonderful journey. This is the first of many more to come. 

This small art quilt was very loosely inspired by an asymmetric Dresden plate pattern by Lee Monroe. Her pattern has an extra blade, which results in 2 large blades side by side that are the same color. The look is interesting, but also a little odd. I wanted to do something asymmetric using the traditional even number of blades AND I wanted the result to look like the alternating blades were missing, so that you see through to the background. The flowers are paper pieced individually and then appliqued onto the matching background fabric. The background is densely quilted, flower centers are trapunto'ed and beaded to add dimension. The entire thing was a study in 'dimension' -- that is, controlling seam direction, density of quilted, coloring to give a sense of depth.

This is my donation to the SAQA Benefit Auction this year.

This is a hand thread painting of 2 year old Kaleb, a friend's grandson. I have machine quilted, appliqued and used couching on this piece. The gold holly and berries are appliqued. The pom pom on the Santa hat is turkey work, a technique I learned when I was doing crewel embroidery many years ago. There are also two little yellow buttons on his shirt.

On the wings of an Eagle is an original eagle design built on a Bargello pattern flag.  The bird is created with individual feathers that are made with Joan Shay's Petal Play technique.  Every feather is individually sewn and the face is enhanced using Prismacolor pencils.

This is the second in my series of quilts related to women down through history who have seen their men go off to war or other dangerous jobs for extended periods.  It is something of a remake of the first in this series "Waiting...".  This time, the woman has her young tween or early teen daughter with her who hasn't seen her father for over a year and she is a little nervous.  I had a very difficult time making the sky.  I painted four pieces, using Setacolor fabric paints and finally chose one and added more paints.  Then I pieced the storm-at-sea part and pieced it together where it turns into the pictorial sea, but I ended up overdying them together after piecing so they melded better.  I nearly quit making this quilt several times along the way, but it is finally finished.  I used over thirty different colors of threads..most of which are variegated. The sea foam is represented by Angelina Fibers.

This quilt is to represent a postage stamp.  It is a hand painted using procion dye and heavily thread painted quilt.  It is based on a drawing I did of my favorite bird, the white breasted nuthatch.

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This quilt was made for my son and his partner's first baby due in August, 2016. It is a cot size quilt.  They chose the pattern and fabric, I did the work.  We can't wait to welcome this little one into the family.  

I made this Quilt for my cousin hwo I spent a lot of weekends and summers with when I was very young. But after her parents divorsed I lost her. Efter bean separat for almost 33 years I found her on Facebook 6 month ago. 

This dog is her beloved heart and her name is Blomma (Flower).

I wanted to express for my cousin Ingela how much I missed her and how much she ment to me by making this wallquilt for her.

She loves it and she almost started cry when I gave it to her. She expressed that this is the most beautiful thing some one ever done for her and given to her.

Love 

Artist members of Cambridge Open Studios in the UK were asked to design and make a heart to raise money for a new hospice facility in Cambridge called The Arthur Rank Hospice. The total needed is £7M. The hearts will be on show at our Open Studios event this July then auctioned sometime later in the year. 

This heart is my contribution. The piece is 28" square and made from five fat quarters and some white fabric by the metre. 

    Designed by me sewn by me and machine quilted by me. Solid colored swirls have hand embroidery around their edges. Center of swirls contain layered felt buttons. This is a wall quilt.

 Little Miss Savanna was born on Easter Sunday.  I made this quilt for her 'birthday' based on the theme that her Mom & Dad had used to decorate her nursery.  It's crib size, personally quilted on my Bernina 830 and the raw edge applique design is an original done in all batiks with a bright pink Minky for backing.  

Combined Mediterranean Garden by Carol Morrissey and 1910 Revisited by Andrea Perejda. All hand appliquéd. Quilted feathers all over.  Won a third place ribbon at my guild show. Will be in the In Full Bloom exhibit at the International Quilt Festival in 2016.

A baby quilt I designed for Baby James using the "bubble" pattern in the batik fabric that I bought in a shop in Texas while we were moving across country from Pennsylvania to Texas.  I loved the rich aqua & blues in the 'bubble' batik and decided to save it until the right project presented itself.  Not long after we moved in to our new home in Georgetown, we got the news that a family friend in California was expecting their 1st grand baby.   

This was a pattern from Cozy Quilt Designs which I thought was very striking.  I added the butterflies as an accent.  After I added the large white border, I thought the quilt needed something more so added the feather motif using my Go cutter and a die from Sarah Vedeler.  This quilt looks great on my couch & is handy on a cool night.