I love learning new techniques!  I watched the "Slice-a-Block" technique by Rob Appell on Man Sewing and was inspired to add some birds using thread painting in the negative space. It was a lot of fun watching it come together.

during the summer/autumn 2017 i spent an hour here and there playing with lots of scraps and many bits and pieces - by late autumn i had all the squares to turn into a quilt for my sister-in-law. it was a lot of fun to make and i really love the result.

This is a confetti and raw edge art quilt.  The idea is from a photo taken on vacation  in Newport Oregon.  I used fabric paint to get all the fabric colors I needed.

The main sections are millions of confetti pieces.  The rope on the post is two demensional.  This is quilted with rayon thread.

I wanted to create a pieced Trinity Knot in honor of my Celtic Heritage.

 Most Trinity Knots are applique, but I wanted it to be pieced. The center Trinity Knot measures 27 X 27 inches, and I pieced it with Batik fabric and Quilted on my longarm

 A miniature Baltimore Album quilt which I've adapted to fit my home area.  Like Baltimore my 160 year old home in Burray is by the sea. In fact it is part of the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland.  So I substituted my house (minus it's conservatory) for the lovely American buildings often shown on a Baltimore Album quilt and was keen to include the sea motifs.  

All the motifs, apart from the house, were tradition Baltimore ones mostly, but not all, from Elly Sienkiewcz books.  I went through countless patterns looking for ones which were appropriate to miniturise.  

The quilt was entirely made on a domestic machine using turned under applique with my Apliquick tools and stabilser.  It was using them that gave me the condience to try this quilt.  The motifs are enhanced by overpainting. 

This quilt was mad as part of the UK Contedmporary Quilters Challenge 'In Print'.  It is based on the poem of the same name by William Wordsworth which was written in 1802 and printed a few years later. Despite being written over 200 hundred years ago the poem is stll relevant.  On the surface it is a paean to the city.  A dig under the surface reveals rather a critique of the sity where all is show.  As words have different meanings so I have written/quilted them in different styles.

This started out as a piece of white fabric which I I pained and sprayed.  The rest is appliqed and overpainted or just painted.

This quilt certainly was challanging for me, but I perservered and am thoroughly happy with the final result. 

The focus fabric in the center was a Colorado Shop fabric from about 6 years and used all I had on this quilt.

There are hummingbirds, columbines, etc. and I just love it.  In each corner of the quilt I fussy cut 4

hummingbirds for the center of each block.  This quilt will become a wedding present in 2019 after I enter

it into some quilt shows.

A fantasy quilt imagining a wizards' duel in another place at another time pictured against a turbulent orange sky with an explosive sun.  Watching the duel from the sky are nearly invisible creatures..a phoenix, a little bird, a raven, and a pegasus.  Across the top of the sky fly what quilters may think are flying geese, but in this place, these triangles represent pteradactyls.  Double batted, cotton fabrics, Superior brand threads of multiple weights and Isacord embroidery thread.  Gina Perkes and Lisa Calle rulers were used in the quilting process. The wizards and dragon were painted and then heavily stitched with metallic threads, and the dragon was backed with a  layer of wool batting to achieve some trapunto shaping and then appliqued. 

the Tri-city Quilt Guild has a challenge every year, and this year's was called "OCD:  Obvious Circle Disorder."  It gave me a chance to use a technique I learned  in an online class called "darned Quilts" by Dena Crain, in which you cut circles (or other shapes) in the quilt and reposition them or put them elsewhere.  I had a lot of fun making this.  The expression on the bottom circle's face is pure chance -- but I'll take it!

Made from a technique I learned from my good friend Barbara Beasley ( show #1905). Mad from a photo from a good friend of a Snowy Owl. 

I live in Tavernier, the Florida Keys, and my parents live in St. Augustine. Last summer when we made the trip up to see them we stopped at 9 quilt shops participating in the Row by Row Experience. I recommend to every quilter to do this at least once. It was so awesome to see all the different ideas and shopping in each store was a dream.When we got home I started immediatlely and made my largest quilt yet. I free-motion quilted each row a little different and just wanted to share my results.

This the very first pattern I've published and is a variation on a block called "Deck of Cards" the difference being is that traditionally that block was constructed like a log cabin block.

This pattern is different and uses a unique way of constructing it that I think is a lot simpler than that so there is no partial seams, Y seams or any kind of paper piecing involved. This quilt is made up of 2 slightly different blocks that can be arranged in many different ways so the quilt pictured is just one way to arrange them

pattern is available on craftsy as a downloadable pattern 

 Worked on this quilt for two years. I made the quilt as a wedding present to a couple who climb mountains and are outdoor athletes. Their favorite color is blue. I saw the mountains in "Twist-and-Turn Bargello Quilts" by Eileen Wright. I only did the mountain peaks and down the side of the mountains. I used McKenna Ryan fabric "Starry Night"  for the sky. The gradients fabric worked perfect for the sun coming up or the sun setting. I cut strips,sewing them vertical instead of bargello the fabrics. The Lake, I found fabric that I thought looked like a water, these strips of fabrics are sewn horizontal. Clip art on the computer aided in pine tree design, bear and deer. I printed out the design I liked. Then drew the design on Heat n Bond. Ironed on fabric I would like to use.  Then ironed on the Quilt. I Thread painted a eagle in the quilt between the pine Trees. The flying geese I thought was a good idea for the border with the outdoor theme. Meckeena Ryans gradient fabric used to make the center of all four sides white and gradually gets darker blue to the corners.  The quilting I had ideas and the long armed did a great job. I did swirls for the white snow tops with a different bead sewn in each swirl. Four different beads used to had shine and sparkle. Flang is used to separate the center design to start the borders. Black piping done to end the borders with a dark blue binding. 

Made for the Magic City Quilt Artists' Challenge; Porportion Distortion. 

This was inspired by my Berner puppy Casey's first walk in the fall leaves.  Background  is crazy pieced with batiks. The leaves are from the fabrics I paint in the hot summer months.  His body is raw edge applique.  I used 40wt. rayon for the thread painting and the leave background.

I made this quilt after I took an online quilt class that Lea McComas did on The Quilt Show.  It is based on a picture I took f my grandson when he was 18 months old.  He was at my backdoor looking out the window of the storm door.  It made me think of him looking out at all the possibilities in his future.  This quilt was juried into and exhibited at both AQS Quiltweek Daytona 2018 and AQS Quiltweek Spring Paducah 2018.  Though it did not win any prizes, I felt it was a winner just being in these two AQS shows.

Saw similair quilt on Pinterest there was not pattern using lots of 2½" strips (traded at quilt guild for years) I charted out the design. Husband had challenged me to "use up all my leftover pieces" so that is what is on the back. He likes the back better. It was not easy sewing the back because there are lots of different angles and lots of strech when basting and quilting. Just used a simple Serpintine stitch for quilting.