Greens & Flowers - Made this quilt during a quilt guild all nighter to sit and sew. The corner squares have machine embroidered flowers to go with the quilt.

Strait of Greens - This was a fun guild get together to sit and sew. I chose to make this quilt using the border with a flying crane. The corner squares I used machine embroider to do a crane in gold that I down loaded for free. A great quilt to use a variety of FQ's. The colors in the quilt are made to go with the border and I used one of my favorite fabric line of Fossil Ferns.

Wong's 50th Anniversary - I designed this quilt using EQ5 software, Digital Scrapbooking Software, Photoshop Elements 5 for photo editing, Embird Embroidery software for the embroidery work, Kaleidoscope Kreater 2.0 software for backgrounds to some of the photos.

Irish Chain

Hopscotch - I bought a very bright selection of sale fabrics one January when it was grey and dreich... I thought that they went rather well together!

Road to Fettercairn - Quilters' Guild theme category 2007 "A Road to...". This is part of the Scotch Whisky trail made with a road map, whisky and heather colours and Drunkard's Path blocks

Fishing with Nikki - When I saw this quilt I knew I had to make it for my dad's birthday. I changed Alex's design to reflect my dad's fishing trips with his dog Nikki who passed away a few years ago and added borders to make it a lap size. The process and additional photos can be seen at http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/560288679xEhxOB

Riot of Color - Raffle Quilt - The quilt takes its roots from Amish quilts. There are 143 brightly colored star blocks surrounded by a 1 inch half square triangle border with an original whimsical appliqued border completing the top.

Bandit - I saw a similar one in a shop and new I had to make one of my dog, Bandit. I modified the Beagle pattern, and Bandit is a mixed breed. It is amazing how the batiks make it look so real. This is my second completed quilt.

Nativity - This is paper pieced with many very tiny pieces! Paper piecing has become my favorite way of quilting along with appliqueing.

The Country Bride Quilt - This is my first attempt at applique. The quilt is hand applique and hand quilting and resides on our bed. Hopefully one day, one of my daughters will take possession of it. It took 5 years to hand quilt whilst making other smaller quilts at the same time.

Out of My Comfort Zone - This quilt was made by attending Byrne's Sewing $5 Sampler Quilt classes--teacher Ruth Stonesifer--in 2005. The actual piecing of the quilt top was my design.

Log Cabin Heart - Started this quilt on a very snowy President's Day weekend February, 2003 thinking I was making a wall hanging for my son and his fiance. This was my first quilt pattern I made and was shocked when I started making it and "then" I checked the size and found out I was making a king sized quilt. Mary Tarrant, Warminster, PA machine embroidered their names and wedding date in the center of the quilt.

Lori's Quilt - Quilt was made by taking the 2005 Practically Free Quilt classes by Ruth Stonesifer, using sampler blocks she designed from EQ5. I used most of her blocks, but she encourages creativity so I redesigned some of the blocks on my EQ5. The border fabric was fun to work with and I learned how to match the corners and middle by watching a Simply Quilts program several years ago.

Stars and Strips - A friend of mine who works at Country Quiltworks asked me to make this quilt as a sample for the store. She knows I like 30's fabrics and I was happy to do it til I found out it had to be done in 4 weeks! But I did it! It was ready for the class (of course, I delivered it just a few hours before the class!)

Silk Star - The red stars and border is dupioni silk. This quilt is special as it does not hang so nicely. Wondering what the difference could be and all I have come up with is the silk. Oh well, it's still pretty!