Quilt made with pictures of attendees from 2014 Christmas gather for my side of the family.  There was a drawing for a winner at Christmas 2015 gathering.  Same pattern as previous year.

Contains Christmas 2015 attendee pictures--small gathering that year so all had a much better chance of winning!  My daughter-in-law saw it before raffle and fell in love with it and she was lucky enough to win----my sister who won last year did the drawing in front of everyone!  Different pattern and did the pictures inset and loved how it turned out.  And this year I made a larger bag to hold quilt from quilt scraps.

Baby quilt for niece's first baby, Michael Patrick. Used a panel and added some applique to enhance the sea creature theme. 

Made this modern type quilt based on quilts I've seen in modern quilting magazines.  Used white and lots of my scraps.  the quilting really made the quilt, don't know  if you can see in picture.  Eunice is battling colon cancer and is 82 years young now living with daughter.  She uses for a lap quilt.

Made quilt for my sister-in-law  who is battling lung cancer--she is doing well.   Her granddaughters loved  the quilt and wanted to take home for a while so I may have to make a few more.  I added the four multi sized Dresden plates in the four corners to use up extra fabric.  Also made a bag to hold the quilt from scraps, but forgot to take a pictures altho she wants me to make more to sell in her craft store, but no time right now.

For my son's first child and my first granddaughter--Therese Marion---her mom Annie won the Christmas quilt previously posted.  She was born July 9, 2016 and now loves crawling on her bright quilt.  didn't use a pattern, just half square triangle blocks to look like a rainbow to got with the noah's ark theme in her room.  This is the rainbow.

I love the influence of celtic design and art.  I purchased the salmon colored fabric several years ago and have been unable to bring myself to cut it into little pieces.  The large celtic spiral allow the fabric to still be seen and admired.

The design in the central part of the quilt is a variant on a military helmet discovered in Italy and dated to approximately 325 BC. 

This quilt was inspired by a sculpture that I saw and set out to recreate in fabric. It is made up of approximately 20 different blue fabrics in odd-shaped 2x2 pieces, to make it like a puzzle. I then used a free motion meander to quilt all the pieces down, doing detail quilting on the eye, nostril and mane and vertical quilting on the background. It is 27" by 38".

Hope you enjoy!

Adorable panel quilt made for beautiful Isabelle.

This wall quilt uses EPP hexagons to represent a DNA sequence that is appliqued onto a background and then quilted. The layout was prototyped using EQ7. The A's, C's, T's and G's are represented by 'logo pairs' carved onto stamp material and then stamped on the central hexagons with Tsukineko Ink. The sequence is a small part of the estrogen receptor gene (ESR1), an important gene in normal life but also a driver in breast cancer. It includes a mutation, shown in black ink (K303R), that causes an amino acid change at the 303 position and may lead to therapy resistance. The quilt was made as a gift for my friend, Dr. Suzanne Fuqua, who pioneered the study of ESR1 mutations and has scientific publications on this variant (listed as the background of the label) spanning 25 years. The background, backing and binding fabrics are all used with the 'wrong-side' out to tone down the designs and mute the colors. https://susieturn.blogspot.com/2016/10/esr1-k303r.html

This little wall quilt started in a 'Tiny Houses' class with Laura Wasilowski in Houston, 2015 (http://artfabrik.com/workshops-lectures/workshops/). It is very loosely based on a cabin on my in-laws property where the cub-scouts used to meet when my husband was young. It is fused, embellished with hand-stitching and then machine stitched.

I was not a member of TQS when Sue Garman's BOM Ruffled Roses was going on but when I saw it  a few years later I knew I had to make it. I thought it was the most beautiful quilt I had ever seen. I purchased the pattern and scoured the internet for  the fabrics used in the quilt...by now  they were discontinued but I was able to find everything. I am so happy with my finished quilt.  It won  Best Of Show last Sept. at the Boise Basin Quilt  show in Idaho. Quite a thrill for me!

Customer quilt.  I quilted several quilts for a family who lost their sweet aunt this past spring. She was making a quilt for each of her children before she passed away. Her niec-in-law finished piecing them and I was honored to quilt them all. In each quilt I quilted a hidden "Love, mom". They didn't know the name of this pattern and after much research, I found it to be a 2000 Thimblberries "Safe Haven" BOM! Here is the quilt ready for binding. 

Baby quilt from "The Bunny Patch" pattern by Nancy Mahoney. Approx. 39" x 49" using "Guess How Much Do I Love You" fabric by Clothworks; finished December, 2016.

I made this for my brother and his wife who are "Snow Birds" in Arizona during the winters in Minnesota. I ventured outside my comfort zone of traditional quilts to make this landscape quilt. No rules were needed here. I used paint, fused fabric, machine embellishments and free motion quilting to complete the quilt. 

During 2012 TQS announced a half-square triangle exchange due to the enthusiasm of members for quilts designed by Edyta Sitar. I mailed in 588 HST to the group in Texas who had offered to sort them. I was thrilled to receive back 588 HSTs - all different. Most exciting was that they were from all over the world! I have HSTs from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Finland, Canada, Scotland and the UK. I named the quilt "Square Dance" as I sensed quilters around the world moving in harmony in concentric circles. I began in the center with a red and white HST from Alex Anderson and formed a red square. I continued to surround that square with larger and larger squares, each in a different color. Ricky Tims' purple HST is in an outer purple square.When I ran out of the exchange HSTs, I made black and white HSTs to form a frame around the squares, then added a border of red and black flying geese. I quilted "Square Dance" on my Bernina 730 with red thread. (In my studio, red is a neutral!) It was a joy to make.

What cuties. Every bulldog has unique markings. By choosing where the black
and white fabric are placed, you can make yours look just like your favorite
Boston Bull Terrier.  I loved my little bulldog, Betty, and this quilt is a tribute
to her.  The little pink tongues are 3-dimentional making it look as if they
might lick your face, at any minute.