Memorial Quilt - This was a memorial quilt for my father who passed away in January. the colored strips were a holiday gift for me, and the black and white were taken from the shirt and jacket that I wore at my Dad's funeral, which were torn in the jewish tradition, and shouldn't be mended. I gave the quilt to my sister, who had taken such constant care of my dad, along with my other sister, in his final years. (My other sister has the quilt that I had made for my dad.)

Five Wedding Wishes - Made for a competition - theme of 'Five'. Depicts 5 wedding wishes 'Health (apples), Wealth (bricks and mortar), Happiness (sunflowers), Fertility (hens and chicks) and Long Life (timepieces)'.

Red Squares - I love little bits of fabric. I saved this pictured of an antique quilt for years. Quilt contains 1,369 ½” squares. Binding is also pieced. Machine pieced and free hand machine quilted with silk thread.

Sun, sea and sand - Made for paid publication in Practical Crafts (UK) magazine, July 2005. I worked for them both as the Editorial Copy Controller and as a contributor.

Celtic Flower Garden Maze - Pattern has been on my design wall for years from an unknown book. I love the contrast of colors. About 80 different fabrics for total of 441~½” finished squares. Fabrics are mostly Quilter’s Candy swatches from Benartex’s Yours Truly & Meadowbrook collections. Back is pieced center square using Kansas Song collection. Binding is also pieced. Quilt is free hand machine quilted using silk thread.

Stripes, Dots & Flowers - Inspired by purchased gift bag for 2005 Coral Springs Guild AQS Challenge. Purchased collection of striped & dotted fabric at the 2004 Quilt Show and added more fabrics to flow colors & patterns into pieced or embroidered mitered frames. Heavily quilted & beaded. Back is one huge pieced mitered frame.

Cosmic Energy - Swirling design in reds, oranges and black; quilt "as you go" technique with additional quilting in variegated thread and black pearl cotton bobbin work.

Springsteen T-Shirt Quilt - Not only am I a quilter, I am also a big Bruce Springsteen fan. I made this quilt out of about 60 Springsteen t-shirts for my concert buddy, Lisa on her 40th birthday. Many of the shirts were purchased at shows we went to together. There are shirts on both the back and the front!

Waiting for My Kids in My Flower Garden - Quilt top hand pieced waiting for my children during their many activities. It’s my first hand pieced quilt and I loved how the time would fly by while I was sewing. I embroidered many bugs - flying and hiding. This quilt will always remind me of their carefree childhood years. Binding is fuzzy yarn with beads attached. Back is one big pieced hexagon flower.

Four fat cats - Made in a fun pink and lilac colourway.

Gathering of Angels - I changed Maggie Walkers colors to something I considered more old world looking. I used fusible applique so I had to reverse every piece on her patterns. I didn this in my dads hospital room when he first had his stroke. Now when I look at this quilt I'm reminded of him and I love it.

Noah's Quilt - Using the XBlock ruler and a rainbow of marbled fabrics, this quilt is a beautiful optical illussion. I liked it so much I made 2!

Hawaiian Goes Traditional - I wanted the old looking Hawaiian quilt design so I took a flower from an Elizabeth Root book and designed my own Hawaiian Quilt. After getting the quilt completely basted I noticed it had a perfect spot between the outside border and the center for a feather. Since I am not Hawaiian and I thought it would be a fun way to turn this traditional Hawaiian into something different. I drew out a feather design to fit in the space and did the machine method of adding the trapunto. So many things happened to this poor quilt that I wasn't sure if it was ever going to make it or not, but it did and I love it.

Flamingo Boondoggle - My friend in another state wanted all her friends from other parts of the US to all make Boondoggle Quilts together. She bought rulers and patterns and sent them to each of us. I chose Flamingo embroidery designs and decided I wanted something appropriate to the flamingo's so I had to redraft the pattern. The black diamonds have the hologram dots that really makes the quilt sparkle.

Lauren's Daisiez - Lauren was a 13 year old who loved pink, purple and blue!

I Love Flowers - I love flowers and wanted to bring my favorite ones indoors with me with no watering required I embroidered these flower blocks many years ago but couldn’t decide on the setting until the Coral Springs Quilt Guild announced the 2003 Square in a Square Challenge. The challenge inspired me to finish this quilt to send to Nashville for the AQS show.

Pink is the New Me - Some of you may remember me from the other quilt I posted - my Double Wedding Ring - which was for my sister-on-law who had cancer last year. Well, this year I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and now I've been made a quilt. It's been a challenging 3 months, but this quilt goes with me to chemo treatments, and it's nice to know I'm loved!

Me and "Pink is the new me" - Here is a picture of me and the quilt they my quilting bee me for the breast cancer I was recently diagnosed with. Thank you ladies!