Starlight Garden - This was a challenge quilt for a local quilt shop. The challenge required you to use Kathy Hall's fabrics - center panel and numerous other colors and prints in the challenge quilt. I started in the center and just kept adding boarders. This quilt is made of all FLANNEL! Quilting it on my domestic machine was a bit of a chore, but it came out great. Kathy Hall came to the challenge quilt show. It was a lot of fun. Currently, this quilt is on my bed. My husband and I love the weight of it, especially during a cold winter in upstate NY.

Purple Velvet - This is a Kaleidoscope Stack n Whack quilt using Bethany Reynolds techinique/books. I have called it Purple Velvet because up close it looks like velvet and everyone just wants to touch it.

Christmas Stocking Quilt - I had fabric left over from making pieced stockings and made up a simple design. I added the shimmery gold fabric just to add to the shine and giltz of the season. I started this quilt in 2006 but finally got it quilted in 2008. I machine pieced and combined machine and hand quilting.

American Beauty

I see Stars - This is a work in progress. I painted the stars and found I had some star fabric here, so started putting it together. I need to quilt it and bind it. Maybe this will be my VIP next weekend.

Humming Bird and flowers - This is another VIP. I am not sure on were to go from here, but having fun doing this.

Midnight at the Oasis

And the Circle Go Round and Round - The center is painted, foiled, stamped and rubbed coffee filters

Serenity

Dance! - This was my first quilt using my own hand dyes. This quilt was just juried into Pacific International Quilt Festival

Tripping Through the Garden - This is 3D fabric folding and manipulation .

Not named - This is going to be a gift for a friend

Fan Serene - The fan is appliqued and embroidered with machine embroidery. It hangs in my hall with the other scroll pattern design by June Colburn. It is serende in my hallway as I approach my sewing room. I took a class from June several years ago. She is one of the calmest people I have ever met.

Heart Star Garden - This is one of my first quilts. What a huge binding! I made up the pattern and this is the second one. The first one went to my sweet friend, Kathy. My friend had to move all the way to California, and I knew her absence would be a loss for me. Hearts and stars were extremely popular then. At the bottom of the heart is a floral lace (which symbolizes the garden and personal growht), the stars are gold lame (representing the hopes and dreams for a better like), and the remaining fabric is cotton. The fabrics are from Jinny Beyer collection.

Angel - When Merle Ann Butler lived in Virginia Beach, I commissioned her to make this wall hanging for me. I met her at a friend's home where Merle Ann was showing her angel quilts. She that making and selling these was her "bread and butter." She told us about her life. Although I could sew, I fell in love with her angels. I had fabric and lace that had meaning to me, so she made the quilt with those. She hand painted the face. Beautiful. she also sold her pattern to me, so I made some as gifts for my sister and brother. It took so many hours. I never saw one of those angel gilfts displayed. I wonder if they still have them.

Mandala - From class on offset log cabin. I put it on point and the rest of design is original

Oh Susanna - This is my first quilt. I didn't know any better. Named in honor of dear friend.

Fall - I did my own color manipulation. Original design called for very crisp dark and light. I wanted colors to fade into each other.