Remembering Grandparents & Great Grandparents - I made this quilt for a family reunion raffle. I used "Printed Treasures" cotton fabric sheets for the photo printing of the ancestor appliques. I used Electric Quilter 6 quilting software to make the design. The colors are dark reds, creamy yellow floral and a sepia brown floral for the border and the double wedding ring center.

Golden Friendship

My Summer Quilt - I wanted a quilt for my bed in the summertime, thus "Summer Quilt". I had this beautiful Amy Butler fabric and because the patterns are largish I didn't want to cut it up too much, so I settled on 8" blocks and 4" sashing.

Moses - This is a handquilted, depiction of Moses parting the waters. The border is as seen on one of Alex's shows...only I cut the squares in half to create a flat side to the border before applique.

Koi - My Sept.2006 Journal quilt and explorations of color principles (complementary in this case) inspired this quilt. It is two sided: the back is as if you were on the bottom of the pond looking up at the koi's bellies to the surface and sky above. More pics on website/blog.

Kimono - I designed this quilt on Electric Quilter 6 for a friend. It is based on some other patterns I've seen on the market. I wanted a simplified version. It was foundation pieced using brocades and silky fabrics backed with a lightweight fusible interfacing for stability and precision piecing. The colors were chosen by the person who owns it.

Buckeye - Quilt made for my son-in-law in Georgia who is a huge Ohio State football fan.

Whig's Defeat - This design is a traditional pattern named for a political party from about the 1840s. I have machine and hand quilted the piece. The piecing was all done by hand in order to get the precision that I strived for.

Which Way Did They Go??? - This was a challenge in our Bee, to set 12" blocks in an unusual way. These are sort of my signature colors, brights with blacks and whites

Autumn Jewel - This scrappy quilt used up many of my beloved Autumn colored scraps. I also used a pieced backing. It was tough hand quilting through the double pieced quilt, but it was worth the effort.

I love Sun Flowers!!

Readers Are Plentiful - This wall quilt was made for ny neice Nicci's 5th grade class. Each child made a seat cushion out of fabric. The class tradition, and MY CHALLENGE, was to make a quilt that used each child's fabric scrap. This was a real challenge - I received fake fur, and lots of fleece! When I saw this pattern in my software, I knew this was it. I put lightweight fusible interfacing on the back of the fleece. I fused the letters on, stitched them with monofilament thread, then heavily quilted it so that the letters and books would Pop out. Such Minnesotan notables are: Chief Justice Warren Burger, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Vice President Walter Mondale, Charles Schulz, Judy Garland, The Andrews Sister, the Pillsbury Company Dough Boy and more! Though I live in PA, I am a native Minnesotan, so I had great fun printing off pictures of famous Minnesotans and placed them in each book. Some photos are sprinkled around the letters. I've heard that the teacher just loved this quilt.

Holly's Kimono - This kimono was quilted for my sister Holly, who chose her own fabric. She had a dining room with Asian-style furniture and needed to complete her room with some Asian inspired decor. The red fabric is a Lonni Rossi fabric. The quilt was made using foundation paper pieced method. Since there was no border around the quilt, I decided an extra wide binding would help to give the edge more definition.

Santas Village - This is one of my favorite Christmas decorations and has become a tradition. I chose a few of the buildings from Piece O'Cake Designs book Welcome to the North Pole. I enlarged the pattern and machine appliqued them. Every few years I add more embellishments and change the display on my mantel.

My First Quilt - This was the quilt that started it all for me. This is the first quilt I started working on, though not the first to get completed.

Inside the Twister - This quilt is made from one piece of fabric, from the Wizard of Oz collection from Quilting treasures.

Periwinkles - One fabric, one block. Cut six repeats, align, cut into 3 & 3/4 " strips, cut equilateral triangles. Sew 3 together & three together, pin hexagon in the center. Sort & design on wall.

Blooming Large