Where there is love - I wanted to experiment with both trapunto and some of the techniques Colleen Wise discusses in her book Casting Shadows so I designed this small quilt. I cut both a mask and a stencil and used oil pastels to create the shadows. The trapunto was done in the traditional way on my Mega Quilter and Inspiraframe. The project was fun, but my vision always exceeds my expertise.

Rebecca's Garden - This was my first landscape quilt. I made it for my mother-in-law for Christmas the first year after we had lost my father-in-law. The background is a commercial batik and the flowers and foliage are messy and fussy cut from commercial fabrics. This project was a joy to put together and a joy to give. I quilted it on my domestic machine and decided I wanted the Mega Quilter. I am going to do more landscape quilts this summer.

Woosy - I got really interested in op art and spent a lot of time looking a art from that period. I decided to try doing a quilt that would mimic some of the art. I used a really cheap black and white stripe to make the checks and sewed the vertical seams closer together and then farther apart to get the wavy illusion. I didn't know if I had achieved my aim until I finished the piecing and stepped back from the design wall to have a look. The border is a great retro print that sets it off. Everyone hates it but me. I used a pantograph to quilt it at first, but then I had to go back and stitch in the ditch to get the right effect.

Simon Says - This quilt was designed to hang in the foyer of the new school in which I am employed as a literacy coach. I based the tree design on a Leisure Arts cross stitch design and received written permission from both the designer and Leisure Arts to use the image in my quilt. The designs are appliqued and trapunto is used on the quilt. The lettering was done by printing the words on printable fabric and cuting and fusing each letter to the background. I used an adaptation of Karen McTavish's filler technique for the background quilting. I'm quite proud of this quilt.

Candy Cane Quilt - This quilt was so much fun, it reminds me of a quilt my Grandmother made.

Autumn harmonic

I am sailing - The pattern is created in EQ6 and paper pieced

Scrappy houses - The pattern is done with freezer paper technique

Sadie's Quilt - Made for Sadie to celebrate her birth and adoption by my good friends Brian and Debbie.

Pooh's Trip Around the World - Made to celebrate the birth of my best friend's son. I had some green Pooh fabric I wanted to use, and even managed to use some leftover fabric from other projects. This is significant because his mom is very environmentally concious. I really liked how the back turned out too.

Charles' Nautical Flag Quilt - My husband described the quilt he wanted me to make him, and I made it. Some blocks were a lot easier than others! It consists of 36 blocks: the letters of the alphabet and then the numbers 0 through 9, all based on the nautical flags used for each. I was particularly pleased with the pieced circles, done after watching a show on Simply Quilts about how to do it. I was stumped on how to hand quilt it, then saw a Pfaff Grand Quilter on an Inspira frame at the local quilt show. Well, I HAD to have it, and part of my argument on why I needed it was that I could finally finished this quilt! Well, dh bought my story, I bought the Pfaff and the quilt was finally finished.

The road to "Spetsamossen"

Quilts in the Garden - Quilt Show in the C&A Garden Railway (1:24 scale)

Patio Quilt

Cheerful - Big pieces and bright colors -

Lone Star - I was commissioned to piece this for a wedding gift. This quilt was pieced and quilted on my treadle sewing machine.

Threads Challenge 1 - This was my challenge piece for the Wild Threads guild. It is a black on black wholecloth with peacock seed bead attached by hand. The only way I could get the quilting to show up was to lighten the picture as you see it. The original is very black.

Angelina's Quilt - Made for "surrogate" granddaughter Angelina Rose for her 2nd birthday from "seed packet" design children's fabric. Crib or wall-handing size.