Latte Quilt - Well known design by Kerrie Haye and embroidered using the software instructions available on the Bernina website. Thanks Faith Reynolds!

tumbling rainbow - beautiful reflection of spring and summer rains when the sun shines on raining clouds.

Val's College Quilt - Valerie is my daughter' best friend since kindergarten. For the first time they were off to different schools (colleges). I wanted to send off this special girl with a special quilt. I love the way the pattern brings together youth (pink) and maturity (rust/green) and thought it was symbolic of college years.

Miss Emma's Birthday Quilt - This quilt was made for an 80+ year old lady from the New Orleans area. Amazingly, she is still waiting to move back into her house after Katrina. A group of dedicated volunteers, working on her home, decided to give her a much deserved birthday party. I heard about the festivities and decided to send her this quilt.

Paul's T-Shirts - My 22 year old son moved out last year and left behind a box of t-shirts. I picked out his favorites and put them together on this quilt. I backed it with warm flannel and gave it to him for Christmas.

Dreams are... - Used my scraps and Eleanor Burns wonderful flying geese tool and created this quilt for a shelter in San Francisco. On the label, I included the following quote: "Dreams are ... illustrations from the book your soul is writing about." (M. Norman) The shelter's Director sent a very gracious thank you card and ended it with "...we will be sure to get them to those for whom they will deeply comfort."

1930 Reproduction Quilt - This is a quilt that reminds me of the quilts my Grandmother made. I saw one similiar in a magazine, enough inspiration to get me started. The center is a 2 inch block made with multiple prints/colors of 1930 reproduction fabric on point. The border surrounding the center is white with pink/white triangles used to create the look of prairie points. The corners are created using the 1930 reproduction blocks. The outer border is pink and white scalloped stripe. I has appliqued flowers and leaves in the white border.

Floral Fantasy

Baby Quilt - This quilt was made for my first grandchild. I adapted some applique art from things I saw on the web, but I cannot recall where they came from.

Crazy Quilt for a Crazy Girl

Froggy Quilt - This was the first quilt I ever finished. I designed it for a child. My theme fabric on the back had comical frogs. I used square on a square blocks, with contrasting colors. I used embroidery to create a frog, his name, 123, ABC, and to label each pedal in a 3 dimensional flower I created - each pedal has the color of the pedal embroidered on the reverse side. I included his photo in one of the blocks, and I made a small frog toy attached to the quilt. The quilting was simple stitch in the ditch.

Baby Quilt - This quilt is for a newborn baby. It is made with multicolored pastel blocks, and striped sashing and binding, and a somewhat solid large border.

English Gardens - This quilt pattern was given away free at Jo Ann Fabrics in 2002 to go along with a coordinated series of fabrics used in the quilt. It was my first quilt and my sister, who had quilted for many years, did not tell me that it was not a beginner project. I did all the cutting and piecing and had help from my sister on sashing, borders and binding. I'm glad I didn't know when I decided to make the quilt, that it was going to be very difficult because I love the quilt and I'm so happy to have it. This pattern did not include any rotary cutting or strip piecing, just templates. I developed a few short cuts of my own, using ideas I'd seen on Simply Quilts.

Mary's Retirement Quilt - Bright colored flannel fabrics and flannel appliques used to make this rag quilt.

An old fashion treat - shadow trapunto

Prismatic Flower With Attitude - After seeing Wild Child on TQS, I took the Prismatic Flower class from Barbara Olson in the fall, 2007 and used her blossom design for this project. The leaves and stem were designed using her Wild Child technique. I appliqued the blossom, middle leaf and stem to the background; then cut out the background underneath and added batting under those parts, as well as the narrow border. I thread painted over those parts, then added another layer of batting, the backing and quilted. The background is all painted fabric. The two outer leaves were wrapped around Timtex (and are firmly attached under the blossom, then there's a few stitches towards the tip, so they are really 3-D.

Christmas Flannel - Flannel Quilt, my version uses country christmas colors

perfectly imperfect christmas tree 2007 - we are of the downsizing age. this tree became our tree for the christmas holiday, and future holidays.