Doug's Bicycle Quilet - This quilt now has a 2nd place ribbon! Owner wanted a keepsake of his hundreds of bicycle races. I suggested I make a quilt for him. It measures 94" x 104" and is entirely hand pieced and hand quilted. Each block is quilted per the graphic design printed on it.
Iris Rock Garden - My favorite flower, he Iris,is the highlight of this wall art quilt. My first landscape. Created and quilted myself, in a class with Natalie Sewell, a local landscape artist/quilter.
aztec sun - I took one block and enlarged it for the center. Then I used the same block and stretched it for the borders. I quilted it with large circles overlapping.
Rose Quilt... or more Money then Sense - I had a collection of rose / flower fabric I wanted to feature. I started with 100 fabrics and kept adding as the quilt progressed. I sewed 6 inch blocks into long strips then sewed the strips off setting the points because I did not know how to keep them aligned on such a long (120 inches) strip. The blocks are basically staggered into a brick pattern. I still need to bind it.
Flourishes - Hand appliqued over a period of 4 years, this cheerful quilt brightens up the room. Dense cross-hatch hand quilting covers the background and each flower, leaf and vine is outline quilted.
Rohan - I am a huge Tolkien fan, and my inspiration for this quilt was the people of Rohan who live in a country that is filled with green fields, blue streams and fair-haired people.
Scrabble - A friend commissioned me to make this quilt as a Christmas gift for his parents who are avid Scrabble players. He chose the words on the quilt - which were inside family jokes.
Jonathan's Graduation Photo Quilt - I adapted 2 different quilt patterns in the making of this quilt to make it the size I wanted. This is my first Photo Quilt!
Jon's Celestial Quilt - Appliqued sun, moon and stars on Hoffman Celestial fabric. Sun and moon have faces. Quilted using pc quilter robotic system. Corners have sunface quilted pattern, body and borders have star quilted design.
Sunrise, Sunset - Made at QBL this summer in Anna Hergert's "Discovering Design Sources" class. It's based on a charcoal drawing in the sketch book that I had with me. I did the sketch in 1988, at the age of 12.
Mom's Girls - This quilt was made for my mother from fabrics she used in making dresses for my sister and me. The sashing is from skirts belonging to my grandmother, who passed away in 2004.
Tea Time Test - These tea pots are from my collection. I photographed the actual tea pots, blew the photos up, and made patterns directly from the photos. It's called "Tea Time Test" because it's an early attempt at applique and machine quilting and I was "testing" my skills.
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