Emily #2 - This is a preprinted panel that I put a ruffle on.

Sophie's Choice - Rag quilt made from flannel.

Laurel Burch Cat Quilt - The cats are all Laurel Burch embroidery designs. They are embroidered on 6" square pieces of fabric, then they have colorful borders attached. Then I free-motion quilted the entire quilt. I made it for my great friend Jhane Marello. I am fortunate to have met her 5 years ago, we are so close it is like having another sister. Last November we went out west to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah. We also visited quilt stores in Flagstaff and Sedona. Jhane fell in love with a quilt with cats on it and went on and on and on about how much she would pay me to make a quilt for her. Little did she know that I had already made this quilt for her and that it was all wrapped up and ready for her to take home with her when we ended our vacation. I got such a kick out of it :) How luck to have found such a good friend. Love you Jhaney

Twas The Night Before Christmas - This quilt is the poem "The Night Before Christmas". It is all from a mouse's perspective. The designs are from The Embroidery Library and are quite enchanting. I made this quilt for my friend Eileen Jones; to be auctioned off at a Gala Fundraiser for her charity "The Gift Of Hearing", this charity provides cochlea implants for deaf children. The embroidery took 84 hours, there were 1,123,562 stitches in the embroidery alone, and I had to change the thread over 800 times. I used a Bernette Bernette 340 embroidery machine and a Bernina Aurora sewing machine. This was the first quilt I had made using embroidery. In retrospect, it probably could have looked a bit jazzier, but in real time you don't want to take away from the embroidery designs.

Addie's ducks - Machine pieced and machine quilted for our new (and only) granddaughter. Adapted from a pattern found on the South Seas Imports website.

Michael's Cabin - Traditional log cabin quilt in a day. Machine pieced and machine quilted as a wedding gift for son and daughter-in-law.

A Day at the beach - Photos printed on fabric memory quilt. Machine pieced and machine quilted. Border fabric printed from a photo of clam shells found on a rock at Canon Beach, OR.

Lady Lily's Banner - Fused and hand appliqued stain glass technique for use outside as a medevil re-enactment banner.

Liturgical Space

Old venerable one - Contour drawing, machine quilted with rubber stamped lettering

Galaxies of the Universe - My first Stack and Whack quilt, using Mardi Gras novelty fabric. I used Ricky's piped binding technique for the binding. WooHoo! I like that! Thanks Ricky.

Circles - I love batiks and had fun putting them together in this small quilt.

Batik Flower Quilt - My friend and I each used this motif and made similar quilts.

Northern Star Quilt

It has no name - The blocks for this quilt were made by the ladies in our guild birthday block group in 2005. I finally put them all together in 2007. I decided to donate it to the church where the guild meets to be used in an auction as a fund raiser.

My Happy Place - I made this for a niece. I called it My Happy Place since this was my first out of the box experience and I enjoyed every minute of it. Using those bright fabrics was a total change for me. Since that quilt, I've continued my quilting journey with brights as well as the more traditional fabrics.

Pinwheels and Posies - New block of the month quilt at www.applewoodfarmquilts.com

Mom's Quilt - This is a queen size memory quilt made from my Mom's fabric stash and clothes. It was a bear to piece and quilt on my small sewing machine, so it took me about 2 years before I finally finished it. !