The quilt is an altered pattern from Cozy Quilt Designs called "One Fish Two Fish" where I added an additional top sandy beach border and creatures all around the blue ocean borders.

The fish blocks are made from ombre fabric. The sea background is batik. The bath houses use selvedge to label them as well as the boat. There is a beach sign saying Life is Better in Bermuda. I printed this out with my printer on a Printer fabric sheet. The large turtle applique is made by me from turtle textured fabric. The creatures on the border were cut seperately from a seashell/sea creature panel that I happened to have in my stash. 

     This was made for my Godmother who is 91 and temporarily in a wheelchair as she heals. I had not seen her in many years and went to see her in her relocated home in FL. Upon a tour of the home I blurted out, "Well........I am going to make you a quilt!" She delighhtly said: "You are!!!!". Then to my surprise she said: " Make me 2 to match, there are 2 beds in my room!" That surprised me (in a good way). No one has ever had the hootspa to say "Make me 2" but at 91 I think they can have whatever they want! For some reason I remembered from childhood my mother saying: "Aunt Marty goes to Bermuda to play golf with Uncle Henry." Having not remembered a whole lot from childhood (you know how that is...) I marveled that I remembered that little Bermuda detail! The beach contains a sailboat that my Uncle Henry used to sail. Because they are now living the senior lifestyle, the quilt reveals the good old days for them in Bermuda, the Caribbean ocean and also the tropical fish and shells that float up on the beach. They were delighted with the quilt!

    The first quilt I mailed her was of the same fabric and it was a simple strip quilt.

This is my interpretation of a wave, of bringing about the change we want through the collective voice of people of all colors and nationalities. Uniting together in pursuit of a better tomorrow. 

I picked up the pin stripped fabric at QuiltCon in Pasadena, CA in February. The small circles were fussy cut from a fabric I found at my amazing local quilt shop “Nimble Thimble” in Gilroy, CA. Hand quilted, in the ditch, to not distract from the simplicity of the design

This Hunters Star was made by me for my daughter who lives in IA. Her husband and their friends hunt for deer so I thought it was an appropriate pattern for them. They just built a house and moved in so it was time for a new quilt! She likes blues so I picked a from Kate Spain for Moda named "Voyage" for the star colors and borders. The orange border is added because there is some orange, pint and turquoise in the fabric and it needed a bright color to make the squares pop.

This is a "boys colors" scrappy 6" hexigon quilt. The pieces came from my stash. I hand pieced it. It now lives with my grandson Caleb in IA. Made in Johnson City,TN. 

This is a 6" hexagon quilt made in "girls colors" in Johnson City,TN and given to my grandaughter in IA.

This is twin sized quilt made in Johnson City,TN for my grandaughter Sophia Joe who's mom said she would like BRIGHT colors!

This was a miniature version of a magazine pattern using some scraps to create a splash of color inside this tan border. I used the baby blue binding as a reference to blue skies on a day in the park. It measures 19 1/2 by 16 1/2 inches.

This quilt was inspired by photos I took while on a vacation driving from New Mexico to north of Durango, Colorado. We drove through stunning landscapes, and I wanted to capture some of them in a quilt. I used portions of photos from both states to create the design for this quilt. The top portion of the quilt is based on photos from northern New Mexico, the rocks on the left side and the cacti are from photos near Baker’s Bridge, Colorado, and the center front rocks are from photos near the Durango library. This was a new way of working for me. Previously I mostly used drawings or clipart to create my designs, but this time I used my own photos as “clipart” for the landscape, though I did use a drawing for the roadrunner, the state bird of New Mexico.

One of my first appliqué teachers was Suzanne Marshall, and she is incredibly good at finding textures in commercially printed fabrics that she can use to achieve the effects she desires. Following her example, all of the fabrics in my quilt are commercially printed cottons. All of the appliqué is needle-turned.

The pretty ribbon is for Best Use of Color in Wall Quilts at the 2018 Pacific International Quilt Festival.

This is a sample quilt created for Quilt Market 2018 in Houston to feature Paula Nadelstern's new "More is More" and "Piece & Joy" fabric lines from Benartex.

Participation to the 2017 International Miniature Quilt Exchange.

We choose to work around the theme of flowers, in yellow/orange.

     I am a traditional quilter, but for this challenge I tried something new.  My teammate and I live in very different climates.  Here in northwestern Pennsylvania, we have a true four seasons as compared to Australia’s two: hot summers and cooler winters.  I attempted a landscape quilt that showed some local sights in all of the four seasons. Out of a window frame, spring, summer, fall and winter are crafted out of fabric.  My teammate Caroline and I decided to make our own designs, so our quilts will be a total surprise for each of us. We have communicated through many e-mails, getting to know each other’s quilting experiences, climate, geographical locations, family, traditions, etc. In many ways we are very different, but quilting is one of our common threads.  We have talked about meeting someday. I am not much of a traveler so, I think that will mean Caroline will visit me on one of her trips to the states.   .   I am sure the IMQE challenge has sparked many long-lasting friendships and has made quilters from around the world seem like close neighbors.  It has been a wonderful experience and I am anxious to see all the creative mini quilts that have been entered.

Techniques used: Free-motion quilting on a domestic machine.  I also used raw edge applique, hand-sewn beads and buttons with some crystal embellishments. Clip art objects and birds for each season that were printed on fabric and fused.

Made for my exchange partner who lives near London.

Made for my IMQE partner in Kiev, Ukraine

• My partner loves Dragonflies so that was the inspiration for the quilted gift for her.  Personal lives on both sides of the world got in the way of actually entering both quilts but it has now been gifted.  Painted, hand embroidered, digitized and machine embroidered dragonfly wings, free motion quilting were the techniques used to quilt this small quilt.  Made for the International Quilt Exchange.  

My name is William Kane. My wife and I own a quilt shop in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. I have always wanted to make a miniature quilt but didn’t know what type. A friend of ours had made a full sized Amish quilt and when I saw it I knew this would work as my inspiration. When I joined the IMQE I now had the incintive to start ( and finish)! My IMQE partner, Elaine White, had told me she liked “some color” and I thought this project would have great color and contrast as well. The project was more challenging that I thought it would be as it used fairly small pieces (3/8 inch half square triangles, not paper pieced). I ma now in thhe process of making one for myself.

Miniature quilt Team 123.  My partner is from Canada and I live in Texas.  Carole & I discovered many things in common.  The one thing we did not share was that she is a professional quilter while I am not.  Oh mercy she is a professional!!  No pressure, right? 

 Well, I found Carol to be a delight. We both live in small towns  that have a  river and a  special bridge.  Her town has Inuksuk which are rocks stacked originally by the Aboriginal people, while our town has the International Rock Stacking competition. 

We choose “Happy” as our theme.   I wanted to design the project myself, but in the end I used a pattern by Kathryn Patterson called “The House That Kaffe Built” published in the 1997 McCalls.  This smaller paperpieced. version was published by McCallsQuilting.com in 2011.

It just seemed perfect for my partner.  It is houses made with Kaffe Fassett fabric, a designer I knew my partner liked.  I had just completed a project with his fabrics and loved the colors in his designs.  Plus she and her husband have built a new home and moved into it in 2017.  Now I am sure I choose the right project for my partner even though it is not my original design