News to me: Boca Grande - This is a "clipart collage" inspired by the newspaper articles about giant iguanas invading the resort town of Boca Grande. I accidentally rotary cut the bottom off during construction. Maybe rotary cutters could be used against the iguanas.

Bad Sue disorients sea turtles - Bad Sue is at it again. On the Florida coast it is illegal to have lights on in the sea turtle nesting areas. Sue shines her flashlight to draw the hatchlings away from the water.

Floral Bullseye - This was a block swap on Pat Sloan's yahoo group.

Playful Colors - Cheryl Malkowski, the author of the book, asked our Quilt Guild if anyone wanted to make a quilt with one of her patterns designed for this book. We might even get a picture of our quilt in her book when it came out. If we made a quilt, we would get a free book. My quilt didn't get in the book, but I had a lot of fun making the quilt!!

Cozy Log Cabin

Butterfly Ohio Star

Colorful and Scrappy

Watercolor Welcome - I collected fabrics for about three years to get the variety of values that I needed to make this small quilt. It was a lot of fun to collect the fabric and then to play around with the small squares till I liked the way everything was placed.

My First Quilt - This was my first quilt. I started taking a hand piecing class. Most blocks are hand pieced. It is all hand quilted.

Founders Day Quilt - I won this quilt at the Foxboro Founder's Day Celebration several years ago. It was raffled by the NewComers Group in town as a fund raiser. But I know nothing about the quilter or the pattern - the quilt did not have a lable. I do know it was long arm machine quilted by Linda Publicover of All About Quilts Walpole, MA.

Tree of Life - This is a hand appliqued, hand quilted wall hanging. It took 7 years to complete. My teacher and the pattern designer was Cindy Cimo.

My Crazy Pillow - I purchased this kit to make a Crazy Quilt Block from the Pepperell Pepper Patch. It was for my own Past President's Challenge for my guild. I made it into a pillow.

M&M Icream Wedding Ring - Made this in a class, using acrylic templates. Call it M&M Ice Cream because the background fabric looks like melted M&M IceCream!

AHQG 2004 Raffle Quilt - This quilt was made as the raffle quilt for the Artful Hands Quilt Guilds 2004 Show. Cindy Cantin and I did the embroidery, I did the construction and Linda Publicover did the long arm quilting. I was president and Show Chair that year. Another member, Sandy White, won the quilt. At the last meeting of the year the guild presented it back to me as the end of the year - Sandy had donated it back to the guild. I was speechless. It was a wonderful gift.

1st Convergence Quilt - This was my first convergence quilt. I had a blast making it.

Ashlyn's Kittens - I made this for my granddaughter, who is about to be born any day. It is backed with checkered pink Minkee.

Mystery quilt - This was a mystery quilt done from the planet patchwork website.

Seashells - The shells were fussy cut from fabric and appliqued onto the background. Several of the shells have been stuffed trapunto style for added dimension.