Blocks From Sylvia's Bridal Sampler, by Elm Creek - Jennifer has 140 blocks on her site, which are selected once a week.. those of us who want to work for 140 weeks go one at a time, some of us run out of time/health... and stop early. I used the 40 blocks I had completed to that point, and played around until I found a decent layout and assembled, then quilted them.

Butterfly Angel - The quilt pattern in the book was incorrect, so I changed the angles, and decided to go brighter and use mostly batiks. I machine quilted in the ditch in the main seams, but in the small strip seams, and inside the white blocks, I hand quilted. The border is completely handquilted too, with butterflies. My favorite motif in this quilt, is a butterfly angel, which I quilted in two of the white diamonds. It was inspired by a song "Butterfly Angel" by my friend and very talented singer, John Suchocki, a PhD Chemist who also has a secondary love in the arts, as do I.

Great Eastern Sun - Friends of mine are Buddhists, and came for a visit. While here, they discussed the concept of the Great Eastern Sun. I wanted to make a quilt wall hanging for them. I've experimented with embroidering little mirrors on it to look like small stars in the background.

Tessellating Pinwheels - This quilt was interesting to make. First you sew squares together, then cut the quilt with a square pattern set on a diagonal on the joined squares, twist the blocks and sew them back together to make the pinwheel design. The book is called Square Dance, by Martha Thompson.

A lot of LOVE

Sean's Korea - border is chenille 3 panels in center represent his Air Force Wing (Wolf) and Squadron (metallic thread highlighted dragon) 4 layers: back is denim with red, white and blue cotton layered for chenille

Lovestitches for Lily - A Chenille baby quilt.

For Jillian - Jillian and her 10 siblings each have a star with their names and birthdates embroidered.

First Child - Virgnia's first quilt involved Dick and Jane fabric cut apart and framed. Quilting was done in variegated thread in circles.

Batik Fish - This is the shower curtain in my bathroom. Note the Christian Fish at the bottom of the piece.

Jewlia's Quilt - I just love bright colours.The squares were prepackaged and I added the two borders. This quilt was the hit of the baby shower. Mom won't let baby use it!

String Heart - Baby quilt for Pine Ridge Reservation

Michigan Hunter's Star - 24 blues and 2 yellows form a large star in the center and the Hunters Stars scattered over the quilt. Begun in a class with Jan Krentz.

Gone Bug-zurk - This was my first attempt at skewed settings with a skewed border. I emboidered directly on the quilt top. "Fun" sums it up.

My Bountiful Wreath - These are 3/8" finished squares. I must have been "mad" to make it... and complete it. At least I didn't count the squares. I made this quilt before the easy method of interfacing became known to me. Trust me... use the interfacing!!!

Ann Fahl BES - I pretty much followed Ann's pattern - complete with decorative stitching within the flowers and leaves. I then went and colored with heat set crayons to get the end result I was looking for.

Four Minis - This is a set of four 3.5" square miniatures. Saturated fabrics with silk ribbon flowers and bugs.

Fractured Chrystals - While watching Simply Quilts #636 with Linda Ballard, I simply loved her quilt. I changed the size of all the blocks and made my own version. Blue and pink with intense machine quilting. Fun fun fun!