Judy's Whackie Quilt - I bought the fabric without any idea what I was going to do with it. When a cousin wanted a quilt of these colors--I decided to try this fabric with this pattern. What a delight, it was so fun to see the various designs show up. I made two quilts and none of the squares looked the same.
I modified the size of the pinwheel and did my own setting. I used some of the scrap "stacks" to make mini-pinwheels for the corners.
Scrappy Churn Dash - I just used scraps from other projects to make the churn dash blocks and then tried lots of different fabrics for the setting triangles until I found the one I thought worked best.
Quilt rack made by my husband. It decorates a large "high" wall beautifully. The quilt rack is large enough to hold both this quilt and the Whack and Stack in other photo.
Grandmother's Two for One quilt - These blocks were made in a class where the instructor demonstrated how to make the block then we managed to create our own. Each block took 8 different fabics. There is no published pattern.
Monet's Pond - Done in a class taught by Jan Krentz in AZ using diamond shapes over a large grid. Had fun embellishing even adding 3 dimensional water lillies.
Mermaids - Machine pieced and quilted for my granddaughter who loves mermaids. Started with the mermaid panel and kept adding more and more until it fit the bed.
Baby Bugs - I made this quilt for my girly. It matches her room which is full of butterflies, dragonflies and lady bugs. I did all the straight line quilting on my home machine and the meandering around the applique bugs by hand. This is the only quilt I did any of the quilting by hand. I quickly found I don't have the patience to hand quilt. This quilt took me almost a year to complete.
log cabin Civil War quilt - This was said to have been made during the Civil War by my great grandmother who lived in Iowa. The back is one piece of silk and might have been added later as it looks like it was machine stitched around the edges with tiny stitches. It was used and is torn in several places.
A warm beginning - This quilt is still a work in progress. It's the result of a series of workshops to learn how patch and quilt. I'm still in the process of handquilting (and am thoroughly enjoying this).
Crazy Christmas Stockings - My mother-in-law made these for us when we moved into our new house. We love them because they are really big and can hold lots & lots of stuff from Santa. I don't know much how they were put together or where she got the pattern.
Medical Torture - Quilt made for Charlene, who was my assistant for many years and now is entering nursing school. Quilted in a "medical instrument" design by Ellen Munnich on the PCQ. Each pass took 1 1/2 hours to quilt. The design was very dense, and I will likely not do such a dense design again. I am pleased with the finished quilt, however.
New Beginnings - This wall hanging was made as a wedding present for my daughter Kim. For each of them it was a second marriage and I thought that a Phoenix rising up from the past and going forward happily into the future summed up what their new lives together was going to be. I used my own hand-dyed fabric for the majority of the piece and made all the bias binding myself.
Reflections on Loch Lomond - This was made at a Guild of the British Isles residential week-end at Stirling University in 2001. Ricky Tims was the tutor and we all had a terrific time. I was honoured and thrilled that Ricky has included it in his Convergence book
Maureen's memories - This wall-hanging was made for my 60th birthday by my sister Irene. I was thrilled and delighted when she gave me it, it was such a great surprise. I had no idea she was making it even though I was with her when she bought the fabric in Houston.
Strawberry Needlecase - I Duplicated the strawberries in the fabric using freemotion embroidery. The strawberry motif was also used in the quilting on the front of the needlecase. The felt "pages" have clear pockets which hold packets of machine needles.
Mum's quilt - This was my very first quilt made many years ago with cardboard templates and scissors. The fabric used was cotton dresses and blouses that belonged to the family. As I didn’t attempt another quilt for a long time it lay unfinished for many years until my Mum went into a Nursing Home. I finished it and donated it to the home so they could raffle it to make some money for the home
Chief's Blanket Quilt - I started this quilt in a workshop with Nora McMeeking when she came over to Scotland from the USA. It was made for my grandson David who helped choose the colours. I couldn’t find the right blue and in the end dyed a sheet in the washing machine with Dylon dye that came out the perfect colour.
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