Spiraling Rainbow Wallhanging - Class with Cheryl Adam who taught the class and how to "draft" a design using a protractor, yardstick compass and graph paper. We designed our own "template" for cutting into the fabric to form the wedges. This piece contains 521 pieces, with a Mariners Compass in the center.

Rag quilt - This is a rag quilt I purchased at my local quilt shop. It was easy to do and there is no quilting when you are finished piecing, just sew blocks together and snip. It makes a great baby quilt as you can throw it into the washer often. The more you wash it the better!

Mariner's Compass - This quilt was started by a class Judy Matheison offered at our local Quilt Guild. It is the beginning of a bedspread for my king size bed. I am going to turn the quilt on point and add triangles (design of the triangles has not yet been determined) and then I am going to border the quilt with blocks made in the Quilt Show Block of the Month. I will use the same colors in the BOM blocks and am challenging myself to find out how to tie the two styles nicely into 1 quilt.

Oceans Alive - This Ocean Quilt was made for my nephew Jai for his first Birthday. I gathered all the peices from Quilting shows it took me 4 months to complete. My little nephew just loves it!

"for Mom" - This quilt was made using all butterfly fabrics. I made this quilt for a friend to give to his mother for Mother's day. Her love of butterflies was the inspiration and my friend picked the pattern for the quilt from a stack of patterns I have.

Mac's Quilt - My husband was helping with the Bits 'n' Pieces quilt show by documenting the show with a slideshow on DVD. While doing the photography, he saw the booth full of hand dyed fabric by Helen Davis of Paducah. He asked me to make a quilt from the fabrics and this one was the result.

Lemoyne Star Sampler - This quilt was inspired by my love of Lemoyne stars and the book Lemoyne Stars Made Easy by Sharon Craig. I adapted one of the quilts in the book by adding more blocks and changing the setting somewhat. I hand pieced the blocks.

Good Night (back of quilt). Wake up (front quilt) - Blues are 9 patch for the back. Front is "Trip around the world". The blues peek through the front softening it solving the problem of colors clashing.

Garden Wonder - While traveling in California, I saw samples made from the book, One-Block Wonders: One Fabric, One Shape, One-of-a-Kind Quilts by Maxine Rosenthal. I fell in love and have now made 3 of these quilts. It's really fun to see the blocks and the color patterns take shape.

Alternative Solar System - Louisa Smith's book, Strips and Curves, inspired me to make a series of quilts. I enjoyed playing with the colors and the concept.

Mocha New York Beauty - I paper pieced this version of the traditional New York Beauty block.

Mark and Jenn - Using the technique described in "Fabric Photo Play" by Julia Wood, I enlarged and translated a photograph of my son and his new wife into a wall hanging.

tree resting - Learned how to fuse applique and took off with my own idea right away.

the brown quilt - I bought the center of this quilt in an ebay auction - a fairly uninspiring 3 block by 4 block set of stars with sashing. I was inspired to get out my browns and to a whole border of my own stars, in a scrappy brown setting, and cut wonky. In 2009, I donated this quilt to Cesar's Dog Whisperer auction to raise money for abandoned dogs.

Katies quilt - Saw this pattern at a quilt show and just had to try it. Even with pinks my husband likes it. Gave it to my niece Katie for Christmas 2007

final frontier - Using scraps of vintage and other fabrics in my stash, and yardage of a space fabric for the background, I made this for myself and take it camping every summer, sleeping under the "starz".

Everblooming Roses - This is my first reverse applique, stained glass style wall hanging, and hangs in my living room.

Colorful Jewel Box - I have always been inspired by my Grandmother, who taught me how to quilt. This quilt reminds me of her, she is truly a Jewel in my life. With her bringing so much joy and life into my own personal life, I thought it was fitting to make it as fun and colorful as she is.