Panel Quilt - Anniversary gift for eldest daughter and son-in-law. The solid panels have a total of 88 double interlocked hearts embroidered using 30wt Sulky Blendable. The outer edge of each solid panel also has an embroidered scallop border.
Ohio Pink - Commission quilt. This started out as 2 blocks to take to my local shop to use during the 2006 Quest for the Cure Quilt Pink Saturday. We ended up sewing different blocks so I took these home. The block was so simple and fun to make that it took on a life of it's own. It was sold as a gift for a woman who is a cancer survivor.
Tommy's Dragonflies - I made this quilt for my new grandson Tommy. Blocks are machine embroidered with a variety of dragonflies. Fabric is hand dyed from Cherrywood Fabrics.
Alphabet Quilt - This was a fun quilt to make from the Alphabet Critters pattern. Machine Applique, free form piecing, and machine quilted with a decorative stitch and YLI variegated machine quilting thread. All fun techniques!
Evelyn's Stars - Traditional LeMoyne Star blocks in an intereseting setting copied from a quilt shown in Sharyn Craig's excellent book "Setting Solutions." That book is one of the most inspiring books in my quilting library. Intricately machine quilted after I took a class with Diane Gaudynski.
4 Babies - I taught a class on printing on fabric with an Ink Jet Printer. I made this as a sample. The babies are my Mother Ethel, age 90, myself age 59, my daughter Lisa, 34 and granddaughter Anna, 8. We were all about 1-2 years when the pictures were taken.
My Baltimor Album - I was inspired to make this quilt by Elly's first book Spoken without a Word. I bought the book in 1984 and later began making the blocks from Baltimore Beauties and Beyond. Life happens and I only worked on it a bit at a time until 2005 when my quilting group would quilt it if it was a top!! They did! What a beautiful job!
Color My World - Challenge Quilt for Fabric Carosel - Illusions of Color 2007
Used 3 challenge fabrics and added 1 more fabic. Center of green with greens and blues radiating out to all shades of blue with flying geese in the borders.
Sunflowers for Mama - Sunflower blocks designed by my husband Tom. Sunflowers set on point then added alternate blocks in green and gold to represent the large leaves of the sunflowers.
Tic Tac Toe - This quilt was adapted from the book "quilting for people who still don't have time to quilt", by Marti Mitchell. I enlarged the quilt and added additional 25 patch blocks on each corner.
YOP - This YOP quilt I made in a class at Asilomar one year. I forget the teacher's name at the moment! I call it YOP for = yellow, orange and purple quilt. I wasn't thrilled using the orange but at the teacher's urging, I did. My friend Judy liked it so much (why, I don't know :P ) so she owns it now. :)
Amish Bullfighter - This quilt was made in Alex Anderson's first class she ever taught at Asilomar. It was a hand quilting and quilt design drafting class and we chose from a variety of Amish patterns. She taught us how to draft feathers and cables and transfer them onto the fabric.
I call this Amish Bullfighter because I never really liked the shade of purple I used. I would have liked a darker color. It reminds me of a color a bullfighter would wear or his cape. :)
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