Kauai Chicken Star - ...one of my favorites! It includes precision piecing, piping in curves, thread embellishments, beads, prairie points, and piping in binding.
Pretty Flaky - I embellished this feathered star with silk ribbon and beads to give the look of a snowflake. Snowflakes in surrounding blocks are bleached into fabric (not appliqued).
Hieroglyphics for Marilyn - A guild Challenge: "What's in a name". This is my name: "Marilyn" written in heiroglyphics. The challenge colors are black and white and one color range of your choice. I choose the range of gold/orange into peach and rusts. The gold "fabric" is Pebo expandable paint. I put the paint on my pressing mat and after it dried, puffed it up, then painted with acrylic metalic paint. It created a sheet of gold almost vinyl material which I could cut and sew easily. I made CA poppies and pomegranates from our tree. What would you put in YOUR eternal basket?
Delphia's Baskets - Copy of an antique quilt that is part of my personal collection. It took 5 years to complete from start to finish. The pattern is available at Common Threads Quilting.
For Margaret - Featured quilt in Quilt Sampler Magazine, Spring 2007. It was such an honor for Common Threads to be choosen for Quilt Sampler. It was a delight to design this quilt to be featured with an article on our shop. The quilt kit, with original fabrics, and the magazine are available at Common Threads.
For Hannah - For Hannah was designed in honor of my great, great, great grandmother who came to Texas in 1831. Shown in the Texas Traditional Treasures at the Houston Quilt Festival 2005.
Floral Fantasy - Medallion, Borderie Perse, flying geese, toile, and stripped fabric. This quilt was designed for the North Texas Shop Hop 2007 and has a little bit of everything. This pattern and kit are available at Common Threads Quilting.
Laurie's baby quilt - Baby quilt made with seams outward for softness, quilting in rows up and down to give it a ripple effect. I have seen the technique but don't know if there is a name for it or not.
The Amanda Quilt - This quilt was made for a very special friend of mine, my boyfriend's daughter, a girl-gone-woman already who is like my very own daughter.
The Amanda Quilt - Amanda chose the border fabrics, the black/white background (front) and wanted the camo and Air Force logo on the back. She placed the front blocks as well.
Handprint Quilt - Made with natural, adopted, and foster nieces and nephews. Solid and log cabin blocks, appliqued hand prints. Also dog and hamster prints ;)
Double Trouble - The quilt was designed to meet the criteria of two (2) challenges: one required the use of two (2) of the fabrics and the other required the use of a friendship star.
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