Best Friends - I saw this wallhanging in a quilt shop in Yuma, AZ during a shop hop and there was no pattern, so I asked them if I could take a picture of it so I could make one, and they said yes. I think it was originally some kind of panel. It reads, "If we live to be 103, best friends we still will be." I made this for my sister, whom I adore! She loves it!

Mrs. Madonia's Been Teaching 30 Years - I made this quilt with bright fabrics and it is machine appliqued with buttons as accents. It was great fun to make.

All Dogs Love Dr. Miller - Quilt is large wall hanging made from the blocks of 11 small single breed only quilts from the book, Canine Quilts. The dogs were appliqued in bright fabrics and surronded by sayings from Doggie Diaries by Block Party Studios.

Painted Boxes - My Stash Box is made from Batik fabrics, then the large boxes were painted with Shiva paint sticks by rubbing an additional "texture" in a different type and color from the batik.

Koi Garden - This quilt is made from asian fabrics in colors of peach, gold and black. Eleven tiny 3mm Swavorski crystals are used in each "koi pond" to make the water sparkle.

LeMoyne Star - I saw a picture of an antique LeMoyne Star and decided to learn how to piece star points. I made lots of mistakes that I call "learning opportunities."

Flights of Fancy - This quilt is made from Laurel Burch fabrics from her Flights of Fancy collection. I made it while evacuated for Hurricane Katrina--I wanted to make only happy quilts. It has Swavorski crystals detailing each bird, butterfly, or dragonfly in the star centers.

Nine Patch - This is my first quilt. I had just finished quilting a nine patch top inherited from my husband's Granny and decided to try my own hand at it.

Granny's Nine Patch - This 1930's quilt was inherited from my husband's Granny. It was obviously made to be used and has cuddled many kids over the years. It's especially precious because I was unable to save any of the quilts from my own grandmother.

Wild Horses - The quilt was made with Laurel Burch fabric and was a sample for quilt camp in 2006. Three young ladies learned to quilt that summer making this quilt (in their own fabric choices). It was great fun!

Granny's Improved Nine Patch - This is a quilt from Granny. The colors lead us to believe that she made it during the 1930's.

Granny's Wedding Ring Quilt - This is another quilt inherited from Granny. We're estimating that she made it in the 1940's.

Basie's quilt - Basie was born in 2001 and I knew I had to make a quilt for her using the pillow panels from Daisy Kingdom and fabric from my stash.

Blazing Star to California - WIP - This was made in a TLC Quilters' guild workshop given by Ann Turley. I started with the center fabric - the theme fabric from the Road to California Show this year - and picked my colors from that piece. This was Ann's paper-pieced pattern, and we sewed no "Y" seams! If you ever have a chance to take a class from Ann - DO IT!!! You will have a blast!

Red & Yellow - This study in red & yellow was designed on my computer, then when I got a pattern that was pleasing, I sewed the HSTs together.

Dot-to-Dot - This quilt uses simple 9 Patch blocks but the layout and design of adding the circles and the green fabric line inserts is my own design. This quilt was done in a nine patch swap. The 9 patch blocks were made by Lisa Marshall, Teresa Covington, Susan Nolen, Diane Hunter, Sandy Brown, and Shelley Caramanian. Once I received the 9 patch blocks I added the pieced circles into the layout. I also added green lines inserted between blocks.

Celebrate Life- 50 Years - This was a free pattern to celecbrate 10 years for Timeless Treasures fabrics. The quilt was mnade using Java Batiks. I added many embellishments and beads.