This was a group project for one of our dear midwives who was diagnosed with leukemia. I designed the quilt, prepped all 80 blocks and put it all together. Our department (Labor and Delivery) staff helped to color each block. I could have used a lot more, but ended up with a queen-sized quilt as it was. The pattern I chose was attic window. All blocks were colored with Crayola Crayons, then heat set. It was quilted by PM Quilting in Palmer Alaska. The quilt was eventually sent to Seattle for Linda Aldous who was undergoing treatment. Unfortunately she never got to see it. It arrived a day before she passed. We all liked to think Linda knew it was there and that we cared so much for her. This photo was taken at her memorial service with family and friends. Those that did not get to make or sign a block got a chance to not only see the finished quilt but sign it and send well-wishes. Her family received the quilt. 

This is my Ricky Tims Dad's Lonestar quilt in progress.  I will repost when complete.

This is a portrait quilt I make from a picture I took of my grandson when he was 18 months old.  I used the technique I learned from Lea McComas in her online portrait quilt class a few years ago on The Quilt Show website.  The scene in the window of the storm door was created with a technique I learned from Gloria Loughman's book Radiant Landscapes.  The hardest part was the plaid shirt I created using Cayl Bryer Fallert's appli-piecing technique.  This quilt was accepted and displayed in both the Daytona and the Spring Paducah AQS shows in 2018.  At the Georgia National Fair in 2018, it won a First Place award in Medium Quilts, Intermediate, Mixed Techniques category and a Georgia Living Award of Excellence.

Quilts that contain both applique and patchwork are my favorites so when I saw Esther Aliu's online BOM called Diamond Hill, I had to make it.

My version is slightly modified from the original design in colors inspired by a Kleenex box.

In a design workshop with Sharon Schamber, I became frustrated.  We were designing quilts with a medallion or mandala setting. Everyone else was drawing pretty flowers.  The more I drew, the less I liked it.  Sharon walked past my table and noted my confusion.  She said, "Nancy, do what you do.  Do what YOU do" and then she walked away.  I thought DOES SHE MEAN SKELETONS? This quilt resulted from my drawing in that class.  It's the 11th in my series of Dia de los Muertos quilts.

I have long been fascinated by the intricacy and variety of snowflakes. Many years ago I took a class with Paula Nadelstern on piecing intricate snowflakes using blue and white fabrics. At that time, I completed three snowflakes, but then put the project aside. I only recently returned to it to finish the quilt for an upcoming gallery show in Iceland. In addition to basing a couple of my flakes on Paula's published designs, I really enjoyed finding unique snowflake photographs and drafting my own original designs, then interpreting them in cloth, and finally combining them into a snowfall. I added even more flakes in the subtle quilting patterns. The result is, I think, the ultimate blue and white quilt.

"Snowfall" was part of the Sapphire Celebration special exhibit at the 2019 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Made for the Re-Vision challenge of the Quilter's Guild of the British Isles to celebrate our 40th anniversay.  All quilts had to be based on the Bloomfield coverlet (see my photos) - not a piece I warmed to.  From show 2202 I had the idea to make kaleidoscopes from various parts of the coverlet's surface using ScopeWorks.  I printed selected ones using EQ printables.  Then I stacked them on a background before quilting the whole piece.  The edges I quilted in narrow straight lines - so boring I fell asleep whilst doing it - luckily I was quilting outwards at the time but my head hit the sewing machine with a thwack.

This is an original design using the QCR mini ruler.  Being snow bound for weeks causes creativity!

 Made for donation to Sacred Threads' Eye Contact Project

Completed piecing the 2018 BOM by Edyta Sitar.  It is not quilted yet as I am relying tomdecide on borders.  I am thinking of a 3 border quilt.  Small beige border, then a slightly larger pink and finally a larger dark green.   Suggestions?  

I plan on machine quilting with domestic machine. 

Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse - The Endangered Specis Series

I have started a series of art quilts highlighting the endangered species from my northern California county of Sonoma. I am enjoying learning about each of these animals and highlighting the plight of habitat loss in their potential extinction. I'm also enjoying the challenge of creating something informative and beautiful and engaging. Each art quilts uses all my hand printed, stamped and dyed fabric along with digitally painted images of the endangered animal featured. it is 36"x24" inches on linen and cotton

Mrytle's Silverspot Butterfly - The Endangered Specis Series

I have started a series of art quilts highlighting the endangered species from my northern California county of Sonoma. I am enjoying learning about each of these animals and highlighting the plight of habitat loss in their potential extinction. I'm also enjoying the challenge of creating something informative and beautiful and engaging. Each art quilts uses all my hand printed, stamped and dyed fabric along with digitally painted images of the endangered animal featured. it is 36"x24" inches on linen and cotton

I began this quilt in a "Double Visions" workshop with Louisa Smith. I decided to rely primarily on my extensive stash of Australian aboriginal fabrics for the pieced lower layer and brightly colored solids and near-solids for the overlayer of X and O shapes. Then the animals demanded to be added to the diagonal "road" so they could get headed outback!

This quilt was made as a tribute to Nancy Zieman.

Wool and flannel quilt with blocks from the 2018 Wooly Block Adventure 2018. 

This quilt is the result of a group challenge to take a purchased fabric panel and make it into a quilt.  I chose to enlarge one of the flower squares in the panel and surrounded the enlarged unit with the other flower panels.  Such fun!  Each of our six quilts were so different and totally unique.

This is a Jewel Box quilt pattern using fabric from the Calypso fabric line for the half square triangles, and several batiks from my stash for the squares. It has a flanged binding.  It was named Diamond Lake after a lake in Oregon where my family and I camped and my daughter had her first canoe trip.  At the time there was a large gathering of square dancers and they put on an impressive and entertaining square dance in the parking area near the boat docks... thus the squares surrounding the diamonds.  These happen to be some of my favorite colors and I loved working on it and watching it evolve.  

I purchased a charm pack of Kaffe Fassett fabrics and paired them with a variety of white tone on tone fabrics to make half square triangles.  I sewed them together in a balanced square design, and used some beautiful Kaffe Fasset feather fabric as an outer border.   I made a flanged binding using another Kaffe fabric.   It is a simple design that I think shows off the variety of beautiful prints that he has designed.  Ellen Abshier machine quilted it with dark blue thread.