For my Sister In Law - I made 2 of these for Christmas gifts this year. Had soooo much fun buying the fabric for both on a Shop Hop in SE Iowa

Van Buren County - My in-laws love all nature and especially items found in Van Buren County Iowa, so I wanted to make a quilt they could use to reflect on favorite things. For months, everytime I went in a shop I was looking for prints of items that reminded me of VB County. Each window depicts an item they would see in this area. I was lucky enough to find the back fabric of wildlife paw prints on clearance at Hancocks and discovered a quilting motif of cat-tails!

Americana Quilt Sampler - This is the first quilt I made. The design was from an Americana Sampler class I took at JoAnn in Temecula, CA in December 2003. I finished the quilt in March, 2004. This quilt is on my bed.

Night Skies - I made this quilt for my daughter and son-in-laws 20th Wedding Anniversary. The woman at the local quilt shop told me I could not make a king size quilt in one month, but I did. Of course, this is a very quick block. The quilt was made in strips and then sewn together with strips on the back to cover the seams. As a new quilter I really did not know what I was doing!

The Frog Pond - I made this quilt in the class I took in Fallbrook, CA taught by Karen Cunagin. Karen is a great fiber aritist and teaches Artful Quilting through Palomar College. As a new quilter she expanded my understanding of what quilts are. The quilt was made for my grandson's 8th birthday. He still uses it on his bed.

Zebras for Hannah - This was the "after quilt" to The Frog Pond quilt. I was tired of frogs so made this "art" quilt for my granddaughter with different fabric.

My Grandmother, My Rosie - This was a quick project to start off a semester in Karen's class. It was supposed to be placemats, but I decided to make a wall hanging instead. The fabric was for a Rosie the Riveter Challenge for Bayside Quilting. The quilt hung in their shop in 2006.

Musical Houses - A friend asked me to make this quilt for a friend of hers. The fabrics are mostly a variety of musical prints. It was a pleasure to make this quilt for Cathy to give to Judy.

New Mexico King Size - This quilt consists of six different blocks using a slightly to have a large central focus block. These blocks use different fabrics that remind me of NM and the other fabrics follow this theme

Fascinatin'Rhythms - Three layer quilt in Katie PM's "ghost wash" style . Three musicians faces overly a quartet of jazz musicians playing piano,horn, sax, and bass. The third layer is musical notes which provide the color changes that affect the values of the other layers

None - Jeannie King was teaching classes at a quilt shop in Endwell, NY, called Sew Much More. I signed up to take a class to create this wall hanging which was her beautiful design. No one else signed up for the class, so Jeannie allowed me to attend during one of her other classes to help me get started on this quilt. I finished it at home. Her sample quilt was a beautiful light background, cut a bit smaller than this background with bright flowers. I decided to use her design to represent flowers just before a thunderstorm in the summer when everything takes on a very eerie color. She was a great teacher for this and other classes, and I am thankful to have had the privilege of using her wonderful pattern. That quilt shop closed and is so missed. Jeannie does still teach in the the same geographical area.

Unknown - This quilt was made with the assistance of wonderful teacher, Jolene Struzinsky, at a former quilt shop, Sew Much More, in Endwell, NY. I used the pattern as published, but I cannot locate the book. It is entirely the design and directions of another. I only used slightly different fabric than pictured in the book as I remember it. I believe that I remember that the quilt was on the cover of the book in addition to the instructions.

None - In my beginning quilting days, I saw Ricky Tims on Simply Quilts. This is an adaptation from his Convergence Quilts book. A friend asked me to make something for a charity auction, which I did. This is the result. I thought it was awful, but someone thought it was worth $45.00 at the auction. I do not know who bought the quilt, so I do not know its current situation.

For Matt - This was a wall hanging that I increased into a king-size quilt. It is in all my favorite shades of green.

Christmas Star - This was a year project, but I am so glad I made it. I have always wanted a Christmas quilt for my bed for the holidays. I started with a Star pattern and worked from there. I scalloped the edge and attached red binding . All the quilting was done on a longarm machine by Diana Wood. The pattern I chose was all different sizes of Pointsettas. I will treasure this quilt for years to come and it will be hard to take it off in January.

90th Reflection - For our Dad's 90th birthday, my sister, Johanne, made this. The silhouette is from a photo of my Dad that she used in a memory quilt. He loves deer and the outdoors so this seemed perfect. She used a silhouette because he has Alzheimer's and he is a shadow of his former self.

Military Dad - My sister made this memory quilt for my father, a retired WWII US Army veteran.