Youthful Hubris - I took this class at the local quilt shop - Patchwork Place, Norman Ok. I planned to make this quilt for my niece who is attending Oklahoma State University in the honors program. I made if for her dorm room. The fabric has cats, dogs, hairdryers, flowers, suns, perfume bottles, books, etc. I selected a lot of the fabrics from the children's section of the quilt store. It is bright and wonderful. The teacher taught the class using Aunt Gracie's - which I love - but I wanted something different. So this is bright and beautiful. I'd paper piece again. I also used a fusible to add the hearts in the middle of the diamonds.

Hidden Life - I made this quilt as my final piece of work for my City & Guilds Patchwork & Quilting course. The idea for this design came from watching the BBC Natural World programme where crocodiles had been found in the Sahara desert, even though it was dry for most of the year. I used the pictures from Michael Palin’s website based on his book Inside Sahara as my design source for the desert images. The blue represents the river Nile where many crocodiles live and where they used to be worshipped as gods in ancient Egypt. It contains handdyed and commercial fabrics, foundation piecing, layering and slashing and free motion quilting.

Emily's Puff Quilt - This was demo'd at our Bee in Harlingen TX. Didn't really want to make one, but then changed my mind!

Krist's $5.00 Quilt - I talked my non-quilting daughter into doing a MOB at a local quilt shop. She sewed most of the blocks together, and then I did the rest to finish it.

Heather's 3rd Birthday Quilt - This was going to be a caveman style quilt, only I liked the curves in my original sketch and they were too curvy for caveman quilting!

Holly's Baby's Quilt - This is the 6th quilt I have finished. Our daughter, Holly, is having a baby in January 2008. I made this quilt for her baby.

R-W-B (Red, White & Blue) Quilt - I have always wanted to make a patriotic quilt. I was asked to teach a Beginner's Quilting class at the Hancock Fabric store in Fairview Heights, Ill. I chose to teach the Nine Patch and Rail Fence blocks. I made this quilt to show how these two beginners blocks could work in a quilt. I was very, very pleased with the results. Oh, by the way...the class was very successful and I have been asked to teach another quilting class.

Chooks in Clover - This is my first tablecloth, i love chickens but we cannot have the real thing so i decided to get this book out Country-Style Quilts and set about making it. As you can see its in progress i started it on fri 28th sept 07. The next step is to sew the applique then put the three layers tog and machine quilt. I will keep you posted.

Chooks in clover - This is a update on my tablecloth

Florence's Family Photo Quilt - Machine embroidered using photo digitizing process. Flannel, twin size. Digitized, embroidered, completed in 80 hours over the course of two weeks with the help of my daughter, Erika.

Heart's Lagoon - My first quilted artpiece using couching, embroidery, beading, free motion embroidery. Mounted on wood. Donated to silent auction for the benefit of CHAC (Chicano Humanities and Arts Council), Denver, Colorado.

Erika's Attic Windows - Asian inspired quilt made for my daughter, Erika for Christmas. Some blocks are commercial fabric, alternating blocks are machine embroidery. Striking dimension created by this block.

Dylan's Telephone Quilt - Quilt designed for nephew who loves talking on the telephone. Raised machine embroidered buttons on appliqued phones so he could "make calls". Corner blocks contain embroidered people for him to talk to.

Wonders of Stack & Whack - Started in 2003 for dd/dsil's 1st Wedding Anniversary. Dsil died suddenly 3 mo. after wedding so put it away until dd asked where it was. Finished in 2007.

Grandma & Me - Template made from sandpaper, I still have it, by Grandma Myrt. She started my quilting fever and we worked together making the plates and applquing them to the blocks.

Convergence - Pattern by Ricky Tims. Quilt top fabric is Dark Crunchies, by Ricky Tims. Border and binding are hand dyed fabric from Cherrywood Fabrics. Back of quilt fabric is Ricky Tims Rhapsodie Colorie. Quilt is machine pieced and quilt by me. The quilting is..... G Clef by Jelly Bean Quilter.

Moms Quilt