and black sashing with a flannel back. 

Machine pieced and quilted. Quilted by Brenda Keith of Quilt Shop In The Oaks in Abilene, Texas. 

This is a paper peiced pattern I bought a couple of years ago, and finished a few months ago. I used batik and hand dyed fabrics to creat him and love the way he turned out having somewhat differential shading, nature is not perfectly symetrical and like humans animals and plants are shaded uniquely.

This was a quilt kit made for my Grandson Scott.  It's a hybrid quilt as the center panel was quilted on my sewing machine, and the borders were quilted on my new Innova longarm.  

I had nurtured my hydrangea plant for a couple of years and finally had blooms on it when a heavy rainstorm hit.   I was worried that I might not have any petals left with the hard rain, and went outside during a lull in the storm to see that the blossoms had survived.   It inspired me to make this art wall quilt  using a snippet technique to form the flowers.  It is covered in tulle and machine quilted.  I then hand beaded it using clear bugle beads to simulate the rain.  

I made this for my daughter for Christmas.  She likes things "plain", I like lots of color and pattern.  So, this was my attempt to make a "plain" modern quilt!  It was a challenge for me not to have a lot of pattern, but instead I created pattern through the design. 

made by hand

This is a quilt throw I made for my dad who loved eagles.  He passed away in December of 2004 and I was given back the throw from the VA in Glendive Montana.  I free-motioned this quilt with my sewing machine back in 1998 before they called it free motion, as I did not have a longarm machine at the time.

I now own a Babylock Longarm and quilt for others and for those who want a quilt mae and quilted in Wyoming.  

Calypso is my version of Jacqueline De Jong's Brilliant Beauties of Joy quilt. I used my collection of grreen fabrics and a couple of Ricky Tim's hand-dyed scraps packages.

I took a class with Jacqueline to get going on this quilt.  She has seen the pictures of it finished - not her colours :)

There is a lot of paper piecing, but it was fun! So happy it's done.

Lora Nale did an awesome job quilting this for me!

This is a quote from my grandson Aiden as he tried out his new birthday gift.  5 year olds believe anything can be accomplished. A photo from that day was my inspiration. I painted the face and hands and the quilt is hand appliqued. I also hand macraméd the butterfly net so that it would flow free.   As the appliqued boy was being assembled it hung on my design wall next to another partial pieced project, I noticed how well the disappearing hour glass fit with the image and the theme.  At age 13 Aiden thinks the statement was silly. 

‘This is my version of Halo Medallion BOM.  It is made of Halloween fabrics.  

It was a fun quilt to do.  I fussy cut a lot of the triangles and used different fabrics for background.

This quilt is made of feedbacks and vintage fabrics only.  The pattern is from Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s Double Wedding Ring book.  

The pattern is Bright Lights, BigCity.

Still life by the aquarium is part of a series I have designed.  I have enjoyed making still life pieces using vintage doilies and laces. It is pieced and appliqued. The fish in the aquarium are hand painted and all the fabric is dyed by me. 

-  I had these chicken blocks for several years and finally was motivated to put them together into a quilt for our 2016 bird-themed quilt show titled, Feather Your Nest With Quilts”.  The blocks are from That Radical Roosters quilt patterns by Florine Johnson.    I found great fabrics to highlight the fun roosters in the quilt.    Quilted by Lori Johnson of Redding.

I watched Gyleen Fitzgerald on the Quilt Show and bought her book and tool.  I had great fun making this purely from scraps.

I wanted to learn how to quilt and this was the pattern I selected as my very first intro into quilting.  I loved the piecing, but not so much the quilting and binding. It has been sitting in my sewing room unfinished for too many years.  I finally decided it was time to get some of my UFOs completed, and this is the first one I worked on.  I used my emboridery machine to do all the quilting, and that was a first as well.  I learned a lot since I started on this quilt, and have ejoyed my journey of quilting. It all started with this quilt.

 A quilt begun when Ricki did the Rhapsody lessons and not completed until 2016. I used my Accuquilt cutter to cut the applique. I had started as an entry for our Black and white and one other colour challenge. I finished for our UFO challenge.

I wanted to try making an 8 pointed star and when that was done it sat in a box.Fast forward to 2017 at the Tangled Threads Quilt Guild and we did a quiz to see wwhat kind of block we were. My answers indicated that I was a star block. The challenge: make something with your block hence in my case "star". I took this out of the box and pondered what to do: Medallion quilt Ok I set it on point and got stuck there and did a smaller challenge with my "hunter star" block.
Back at the design wall I desided to use Ricki's curved piecing with freezer paper a modification of the rhapsody concept. The quilt got carried over to our UFO challenge for this year. I added applique pieces to represent fragments flying off my spinning star. (Note: my motto is "Done is better than perfect"