Grandmother's Garden for Laurie and Matt - Made from Grandmother's Garden blocks that I inherited from my Great Grandmother Amanda Burris. I appliquaed these blocks on to reproduction fabric and the added the windblown pattern. This quilt was made as a wedding present for my cousin.

Amanda's Cactus Basket - My mother remembers this quilt on her parents bed in Oklahoma when she was child of 6, so we are estimating that my Great Grandmother Burris must have made it sometime the end of 1920's and the mid 1930's. This quilt moved around with the family from Oklahoma during the Depression and WWII. It has lived in 7 states and by the 2000's was stained, some of the diamonds were threadbare, it had rips and tears and my Grandmother had attempted to machine sew two colors of red bias boarder on it. (My Grandmother wasn't a sewer.) I removed the red boarder, the hand quilting on the boarder edges, appliqued over the worn and damaged diamonds and white blocks that were stained and or worn. None of the red basket material needed any repair. Thank God because I wasn't able to find the color any where. I hand quilted over the repairs and added a boarder using the 1930's fabrics that I had used in the repaing the diamonds. (See Pictures for before photos of the damaged blocks.) As I was finishing up this quilt , I was also signing up to be a member of the "Quilt Show". I needed to come up with a log-in-name, so used the quilt block as my log-in-name.

Round Robin - This is a round robin from my friendship group. It started iwth the Gabriel Swain Columbine block in the center. A bird and borders were added. This was my first applique. It also has 4 challenge fabrics form two different guild challenges.

Kaitlin's quilt - Some in our Thimbleberries group decided to do a block exchange of batik Arctic Nights blocks. I made these for the exhange. I took my leftovers and made a quilt for one of our members who was having a baby. I backed it with flannel batik. You can see the baby bottle card to surprise April when she saw it in the quilt show. Sorry it's sideways!

Love You to Pieces - Using a photograph of my 6 yo daughter (sporting a straw hat and braids), I used Tammie Bowser's software program to scan the image into my computer and break it down into 6,140 1" squares. I then selected fabric which I arranged according to value and fused them onto a plain grid and sewed it all together. It was the neatest process because any color of fabric will work as long as the value is correct. I was awarded 1st place in the Textiles category for a local competition and then went on to win Best of Show against all categories in the next round. I proudly display this work of art in my home (and I can't even draw a stick figure person)!

Coyote Walks Through the End of Summer - Mostly appliqued elements with a row of Flying geese at the top to add to the autumn theme. The leaves I gathered from around my yard and traced thier shapes. You can't tell from the photo but the popular leaves are dimensional.

Trip around Colorado - my first quilt - Trip Around the World pattern kit with hand-dyed fabrics. The quilt was extended with additional borders so it fits a Queen size bed. The Columbine flower pattern was created by Rhonda Denney and appliquéd on the borders in two opposite corners. Quilting on the center portion is "stitch in the ditch". The Columbine flower pattern is quilted in the opposite two corners of the border, with echo quilting tying everything in the border together. This is Rhonda's first quilt, started in 2003 and finally quilted and finished in 2007.

Ohio State Fan - This quilt was made for my nephew. Both of his parents are big Ohio State fans and they live in Columbus so this was fitting.

Sunflowers - Based on the Sunburst pattern in two sizes.

Harvest Gathering - Harvest Gathering was designed for the fall 2004 Quilt Sampler magazine, in conjunction with my local quilt shop, Gathering Fabric. The pattern is available at quilt shops or from me.

Between the Linez - Simultaneous contrast quilt of the negative view of a zebra close-up, done in black fabric on white background. Pieces cut from the black fabric used to create my "The Eyez Have It" quilt were saved and used to create this quilt.

The Eyez Have It - Simultaneous contrast quilt of a zebra close-up. Made with black fabric on a white background. The pieces cut from this quilt pattern were saved and used to make "Between the Linez" quilt.

Pledge to the Flag - This was really fun to quilt. The piecing went together really fast and used up some of the scraps I had been keeping for the border.

Sunrise at Cap Rock - Landscape quilt of a mountain, Cap Rock, that can be seen from our property. Done as a color assignment - using melodious harmonious scheme (3/4 of color wheel). Given to my husband, Ray Fallen, to celebrate his retirement and the beginning of a new chapter in his life.

Woodinville Wine Country - I wanted the viewer to feel as if they were looking through a grapevine covered trellis at the fields and sky beyond.