Seasons Change - “Seasons Change” was created after seeing early fall leaves that were bright and full of color begin to show up against a still luscious green backdrop leftover from summer. The leaf shapes were actual leaves fallen from my tree. The green beads were added to accentuate the lusciousness of the summer foliage and act as “dew” created by the cooling temperatures at night. Fall is a beautiful season when a transformation is occurring in nature and this quilt represents that change. - K. Nicholson

Memories of Scouting - I made this quilt to celebrate my youngest son becoming at Eagle Scout. The center of each block contains a photo of my son in a scout activity starting when he first started cub scouts. I quilted it using ideas that were significant to quilting. Choosing the pictures to include was like a trip down memory lane.

Vermont Field - This design depicts a typical summer day in Vermont. A field with wild flowers, cattails, lots of green, cool granite rocks, large elm and evergreen trees, crisp blue skies with white clouds, blue-green hills in the distance, and farmers fields with sheep. This is the perfect Vermont, as I want to remember it. -K. Nicholson

Cabin by the Lake - I made this quilt in response to a guild challenge. A log cabin was to be somewhere in the quilt. It could be either a traditional log cabin block or a cabin. The rest of the quilt was done using strips of fabric. It is embellished with animal buttons.

Summer Fiesta - This quilt was the result of a design class with Marilyn Belford. It was an exercise in shape, color, proportion etc. It represents a hot and steamy summer day when a fiesta is about to take place.

Fantasea - I made this quilt for a guild challenge. We live on the coast and the challenge was an ocean theme.

Celebration Indian Style - This quilt is the result of a challenge for our local quilt guild for the 2007 Glendale Quilt Show. It is machine quilted w/ beading, embellished, and fused.

The Wedding Quilt - I took the pattern of Katya's Album and expanded on it. I made it for my son's wedding. They wanted a quilt where everyone who attended the wedding sign a square for the quilt. Being the original pattern was too small I made the squares into 1/2 triangles with dark blue on one side and off white on the other. It worked out perfectly! They, and I, are very happy with how this keepsake quilt came out and it's hanging in their home in the foyer for all to see.

Hydrangea Heaven - This was from a kit, but I loved it so much, I had to make it.....

Madeline in Paris

Love in Bloom - Made this as a wedding shower present for my new daughter in law.

Jason Loves Green - This quilt was made entirely from fat quarters of green and off white material using the Minnesota Chain pattern. It was my first attempt at following a published pattern without the guidance of a teacher or someone who had made that pattern previously.

No Red Tractors - This quilt was designed and made for my brother who is a farmer who only has John Deere Tractors. After I cut into the fabric and had the blocks designed I realized that I had fabric with red tractors. so a trip to the craft store and about thirty tractors later painted in the proper green and yellow the quilt could be completed.

Ethan's Summer - I was flipping through Martha Stewart's "Blueprint" magazine and found a pattern for Joelle Hoverson's (of Purl Patchwork) bedroom quilt. I have been hording Heather Ross fabric for years and new this would be the perfect quilt to display the wonderful prints I am ready to put in a project. I have prints from Munki munki, Lightening Bugs and other Mysteries. I know it was ment to be when the quilt almost came together by itself. The back is a big beach print with snorklers, fish, people getting sunburned....a lost turtle. Heather Ross is able to depict my childhood in art, I just love her work. I batted the quilt with an organic cotton/wool batting that is made here in Australia and I quilted it with King Tut thread in a verigated blue. I used my signature "Determined Meandering" technique and my Bernina 640 was my sewing computer.

Jesse's Quilt

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Tea in Alice - I made this quilt based on Jane Stickle's "Dear Jane". I had ordered a Lecien Charm set from Ebay and wanted to see what I could do with it. I am really into Lecien fabric right no, so delicate and detailed. Each block is cut differently, and the back of the quilt is it's own pattern as well. I batted this quilt with Quilter's Dream Delux Supreme batting. I used King Tut thread to quilt it in Egyptsy Rose verigation. I used my Bernina 640 to quilt the finished product in my signature "Determined Meandering" technique. The finished product is so similar to the view of the East McDonalds from my dining room window at sunset. Only Lecien fabric was used.