Yin and Yang - I love oriental fabrics so I decided to make this quilt as a wall hanging for my foyer. The circles are machine appliqued. After auditioning hundreds of fabrics for the border, I decided to make this sort of greek key black and white. I'm very happy with the outcome.

Purple Jewel - I made this quilt at a retreat after a friend showed me the uneven four patch square in a square technique that she learned from a Ricky Tims workshop. I received a stack of hand dyed squares and decided that this would be a perfect use for them. The purple in the solid is my favorite color. I machine quilted this by free motion connecting circles.

Ragged Roses - I wanted to try this ragged edge technique and thought this pattern was beautiful. I'm very pleased with the way the quilt turned out.

Tessellations - I took a workshop with Gyleen Fitzgerald and members of the Baltimor Heratige Quilt Guild. This is one of my favorite quilts and a lot of fun to put together.

Grandma's hankie - After seeing the beautiful hankerchief quilts of Pat Gardner, a member of my Baltimore quilt guild, I decided to make a quilt around one of my grandma's old hankerchiefs. This quilt is very personal to me.

Venice San Marco Floor Pattern - I fell in love with the floor of San Marco. When visiting San Marco, I was looking down, most other people were looking up. Then Norah McMeeking came to San diego to give a class at Canyon Quilters. inspiring this quilt.

Morro Rock, Morro Bay California - Another favorite place for our visits away from home. I used strips of hand died materials for this quilt.

Windmills for McKenna

Back Home - I made this quilt for my parents. The name "Back Home" is symbolic to me because of the huge amount of support and love my parents showed me after I moved back home from out of state following a divorce with my two dogs, all my furniture and stuff....no job, very down--I could not have picked myself up and dusted myself off without their support and love.

Cats Gone Wild - Our local cat club was hosting the national convention for the American Cat Fanciers Association and decided to do a raffle. I offered to make a quilt for one of the prizes. This was displayed around the area and we raised $3,000. The cats are my drawings. It was a challenge to decide the layout and order of construction, since the cats overlay the sashings and border. Each of the cats has several pieces. I used all directional prints - mostly stripes - and cut legs, tails, etc on the bias, so you can see movement. I had hoped to make a commercial pattern of this quilt, but after doing all the alignment markings, deciding which piece went over what, etc., I have a whole new respect for pattern makers! It's a lot of work to design; let alone write instructions that will make sense to others. All of the work was completed on my home sewing machine with lots of fancy threads. The free motion quilting includes swirls, lettering, mice, cheese, cats, etc. - all self-designed to fit the space. Can you find the one block with a brave little mouse strolling amongst all those cats? Wish I'd have had the Photo Guy's suggestions before photographing!

Daughter's Delight - My fourth quilt ever.

Bright Diamonds - This is my first quilt, made for the arrival of my first grandchild.

Have A Heart - My dad was waiting for a heart transplant when I made this quilt for them to have while they were stuck in a hotel in the middle of Los Angeles. My dad's health was dire and they would not release him unless he received a heart. He got one! He's still doing well here in 2007!

Superstars in my eyes... - My second quilt ever. Also when I learned the different between quilt fabric and cheap quilt fabric.

Sister - This was a Civil War era quilting class taught by Kimber O'Shea. We learned about reproduction quilt fabrics and colors from the era.

An Inward Grace of The Soul - This was a quilt made in a Jan Hirth quilt class. The object of the class was to try and learn 13 different types of applique. I liked this so much when I was done, I had thank you cards made from a photo of the quilt!

Eureka 2! - I made this quilt for my grandson, Andy, for his high school graduation present. His favorite color is green! I had a lot of fun making this quilt and also pieced the back--see the next picture. He is going away to college soon and I hope he wraps the quilt around him when he is homesick, so he can feel all the love stitched into this quilt.

Beach Day - One of the best days in my life was with my niece at the beach, so to commemorate the day I made this quilt for her that Christmas.