Grammie Loves You as High as the Stars - This quilt was started with a scrap piece of fabric at a technique class using The Circle A Round book by Cheryl Phillips and the Cut around ruler taught by Diane Monde at Aurora Sewing Center in E Aurora NY. I can't bear to waste anything so I quick printed off some pictures of planets and selected the Jupiter fabric from my stash. I did that circle in class and the rest I places and did on my own. The little circles are fused. I used Ricky Tims Sparkling thread for the orbit and left it off of Pluto since this is no longer concidered a planet! This was my first big atttempt at free motion and I did swirls with my daughter, her husband's and my four grandchildren's name hidden in quilt writing. I used a smoke clear thread.

Little Johnny's Quilt - My first quilt made after beginners class on my new Bernina sewing machine. The quilt was made for my nephew's new baby and given to his mother at her baby shower

Tropical Tablecloth - I purchased Alex's Baby Quilts with Love book and I have made two quilts from her book in a short time. They both went together very well and with no problems. I really enjoyed working with her patterns

Orange Shoes - Orange Shoes was designed for a special exhibition at the International Quilt tudy Center in Nebraska. I showed my quilt along side Jane Burch Cochran. It then travelled to Ohio to the Riffe Gallery for the Give and Take Show.

Anna

It's All About Adam - Pieced Square design blocks surrounding pictures of my first grand child who celebrated his first birthday in Sept 07. Pictured are of events that occured during his first year of life.

I don't know if I'm coming or going - This is me and my bug - based upon a doodle I did

Windmills for my brother - The pattern for this is original using a traditional windmill block. This block was one of our block lotto monthly quilts the year I co-chaired this I made it for my brother Tim who provided a bone marrow transplant for our youngest brother Mike - who died in 2001 fighting lymphoma

Carlotta in the Secret Garden - Hand appliqued (and learned why machine applique was suggested!), machine pieced, 1st quilt with mostly free-motion quilting (monofilament), embelleshed with fabric painting (1st attempt at painting). Had lots of fun with this quilt!

Wallflower Bloom - Part of Wall flower Challenge - one of my first original quilts. Three dimension with hundreds of beads

Pride of the Prairie - Sherrie Coppenbarger and I jointly designed and constructed this quilt with help from Kelly Romine and Konnie Arneman. This was our 2004 Gems of the Prairie Raffle quilt - and in the end I won it. We raised $5500 for the guild that year - twice as much as previous quilts.

Benny's 50th birthday quilt - A dear friend of mine, Benny, recently turned 50! A very special birthday, so I thought that deserved a very special present! About 15 years ago he became very ill and was taken too the hospital! I made him a litlle tree from beads! When he told me a few months ago he still had that tree after all these years, I was so deeply touched, I just couldn't believe it! That's when I decided to make him a quilt, a life in pictures! It wasn't very easy to get a hold of the pictures and keeping it a secret from him, but in the end I got there! Seeing it was my first quilt and I had only two months to finish it I thought I wouldn't make it to big and do only the front side with pictures of him and make the back of the quilt very simple with only one or two fabrics! As I got swept away by this project, it actually almost took over my life, I got this great idea of doing something special with the backside aswell!!! Seeing he is a big fan of our kings and queens I decided to get the whole Belgium history on the back of the quilt!!! In the end I had to put the metal to the pedal ....I finished it two hours before his birthday party!!! The exspression on his face was priceless and worth every second of the time I put into it! This was almost two monts ago and the quilt is still the talk of the town... Hope you like it too! Brigitte

Benny's 50 th birthday quilt - This is the backside of the quilt.

A Country Journal "Grandma's Chickens" - My kids raised all of these kinds for 4-H. My grandson was "Helping" me with a lot of it and he kept asking me if they were, "Grandma's Chickens".

Split Infinitives - This quilt resulted after I took a workshop with artist Gerry Chase where we did a lot of painting on fabric and free drawing using a tjanting tool (the traditional tool for drawing with wax to make batik fabric). These squiggle circles really speak to me!

Midnight Vortex - I made this for my 5 yr old son. The quilted stars on border and embroidery on back are done with glow in the dark thread. The kids love when I do that.

Calla Lilies - Airbrushed with fiber reactive dyes & heavily quilted. Leaves are quilted to texturize appx 1/8" apart or less.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho It's Home from work we go... - I learned to make this in my quilt guild.