Denim Circle Quilt - I made this quilt for my niece's high school graduation. She chose purple for the "windows". The jeans were donated by various family members.

Santa Quilt

Jousting Chickens

Mystery Quilt - I signed up for a mystery quilt class and I thought I would be making a block (as 1 only) a month. Little did know some months I had to make 6 or 7 but here is the result. I think I would like to try this one again but this time in Batiks and restrict my self to a certain number of colors now that I know what the final look will be.

Skeletons and Pirates - Traditional 9 patch on a large scale. Each block is 18" square made for my grandson, Austin, for his 11th birthday. The center blocks are machine embroidered.

Mesa Vista - My son, David, gave me a kidney in 2006. Thinking about how to thank him, I felt a quilt of his beloved New Mexico might be just the thing.

Winning hand

Wacky pinwheel

Christmas Ribbons

Fire Within - I was on a trip and missed the first day of this class, which was how to pick your fabrics. I was totally at a loss as to what to do and wondered if I should go on. The teacher suggested I use the hand dyes I had used in another quilt. I ran back home and got them and they worked out perfectly.

Hanging in Space - I took a class from Karen Combs at our Quilt Quild. She showed us how to make these cubes. This is the quilt I made from them. It was a wonderful class!

"Josie" - "Josie" is my granddaughter. When she first saw this quilt, she was very quiet, but when I asked her if she knew who it was, she nodded and said "It's me!"

Cheena Memorial - We had gotten our incredible dog, Cheena, from a pound as a baby just 3 years before. One day on their way to a hike in the mountains she died of a congenital heart problem in the backseat of the car. We were beside ourselves. Making this quilt helped me come to terms with her death.

Black and White Dazzle - My best friend, Alice (not a quilter) begged me to take this quilting class with her, which started the next week. They needed another body to fill the class. So, completely unlike myself, both in type of quilt and speed of picking fabrics, I raced around the quilt store and bought everthing I needed in just 1/2 hour. I missed the first meeting so I had to call for directions. In the nexted three weeks of classes I finnished the quilt. A new record for me. My freind never did finish her quilt.

Everything African

Canopy of Oaks - This quilt was inspired by my teacher, Joan Colvin, at Art Quilt Tahoe. Her love of trees and nature, her way of teaching and her spirit will stay with me forever.

Ron's Rag Edge - This quilt has blue jean squares on the back and flannel on the front. I used a varigated jeans stitch thread that showed up very well against the blue jean fabric. This was a present for my brother to use when traveling in his 1967 camper van. It was very heavy!