Krissy's Quilt - Made to match color and decor of the bedroom it was made for.

Deb's Adventures - Machine pieced using t-shirts from various races my daughter participated in. This is her second t-quilt!

Happy Nineteenth - Made as a dorm quilt for my granddaughter's 19th birthday. She chose the colors, wanting subtle fabric but intricate design ... with a month to make it!

My Lake Arrowhead (GA, not CA) - Made from a paper piecing block that I can't remember, from Quilter's Cache, online. Photos taken in the community where I live.

My Ceil and Cancer everywhere - Quilts act as an emotional outlet for me. My dog Ceil has inoperable cancer. Cancer always seems to surround me, only Magical Thinking-Chinese Medicine might be able to help.

The Gift of Plates - This quilt is one of my most treasured quilts. All of the fabrics were gifts to me by family members. I made the plates in 2002/2003 and packed them away. Several months later, I machine pieced the the back ground squares and then basted the squares in place and appliques them down. After all was completed I layered my quilt, basted it, and hand quilted it. The hand quilting design was my own designs (which cannot be clearly seen in the picture). The quilt was finally completed in early 2004. Enlarge and see if you can find the rounded plate? This is not a mistake!

Lavender Visions - This is the second quilt I made in 1995. It was also the first time I ever spent more than $3.00 on a yard of fabric. I just had too! I was in a local quilt store in Missoula, Montana and saw this toile fabric and couldn't resist. I machine pieced the quilt together and with the assistance of Alex Anderson and a "Simply Quilts" episode teaching viewers to hand quilt, I hand quilted the entire finished quilt. You cannot visibly see the progression of my stitches, but I can! I started by getting very few stitches per inch, maybe 6 or 7. By the end of the quilting process I was getting anywhere from 10 to 12 per inch. This quilt is currently on my quilt rack and is a favorite for snuggling in the winter with my cats.

Chintz Roses - I purchased this kit from the internet and made it as a gift for my Dad's wife, Janice for Christmas-2005. This kit contained very easy instructions and was simple to put together. I machine quilted it in one afternoon. Jan loves her quilt, but prefers not to use as she doesn't want to get ruined. I am flattered, but I like my quilts to be used and loved.

Windows To The Past - This quilt was a gift to Marilyn to who I owe my love of quilting. She taught me to quilt. These are pictures of her and her children that I collected and made into this quilt. The blocks are machine pieced. Each block or picture square has hand embroidered silk ribbons of flowers, lady bugs, bees, etc. The picture does not do it justice.

Waltzing Stars in the Garden

60th Wedding Anniversary - I saw the Simply Quilts show with Ami Simms on photo album quilts and thought it was a perfect idea for a 60th anniversary gift for my parents. My sister agreed with the idea and, best of all, agreed to do most of the work. Neither of us had ever made a quilt before, so we thought we were starting plenty early. It was September, 1999, and our parents celebrated their 60th anniversary in May, 2000. We selected 129 photos, a newspaper announcement of their marriage, a piece of music Dad wrote, and my artist daughter painted a small design for the quilt - 133 photo transfers in all. By May, my sister had machine pieced the quilt together and had also done enough quilting to present it to Mom and Dad at their anniversary celebration. We completed the quilting, all by hand, before they celebrated their 65th anniversary!

Dragonfly - My son kept asking me when we'd actually keep one of the quilts I make. I found this pattern in one of the Kansas City Star books, it's from 1934. By the time I'd finished the top I was so tired of paper-piecing that I purchased a commercially made pieced backing, so the quilt is reversible. I felt sorry for my machine quilter, who had to work around some pretty thick intersections where so many fabrics convened (but she did it with style -- as always!)

Glass Bottles - I made this quilt for my daughter. We picked out the fabrics on a trip to Victoria, BC. We call it the "Million Dollar Quilt" because we didn't look at the price of the fabric. When we got to the check out we didn't say a thing, but a good chuckle all the way down the street. We had forgotten we were in Canada and would have to pay much, much higher prices. As a quilter...who cared!

Happy 25th Anniversary - I bought this orchid fabric knowing that I would make something for my mom, who grows orchids. My folks 25th wedding anniversary was the perfect occasion.

Celebrate Carolyn - Made for my sister's 40th birthday. Birthdays are to be CELEBRATED!!!!

Tropical Convergence - This is my first convergence quilt- liked it so much I made 3 more.

Designed for Family - Used EQ5 to design this large lap quilt for my daughter and son-in-law's family room.

Autumnal Equinox - Thimbleberries and Husqvarna collaboration for a sampler quilt.