Ribbon Hearts - Designed by me for Animas Quilts Publications.

Scottie Dog - Found this pattern in my grandmother's boxes and thought it might be fun to make and it was.

Krista's Quilt

7 Santas and 100 Berries in the Border - This needle turn applique quilt is from an out of print book by Piece of Cake Designs. The quilt top took a full year to complete. The hand quilting took another 7 months. There really are 100 berries in the border!

Indian Orange Peel - Paper pieced using 125 fabrics, mostly batiks. Very challening to assemble, especiialy the border. The designer, Karen Stone, does not give as many tips in her book as I needed, but then, I have only been quilting 3 years. On a difficulty scale of 1 - 10, I thought this was an ll! I put 300 hours into this quilt from selecting fabrics, washing, ironing, starching, cutting, assembling color combos, machine stitching, tearing off paper patterns, assembling blocks and border and then quilting on my home machine. No wonder it took me two years!

White bouquet - miniature quilt; shadow trapunto on organza

My Little Antique - I was inspired by Cindy Needham who turned antique linens into beautiful quilts. After watching her on The Quilt Show, I went out and bought this antique linen cutwork applique and decided to make a quilt. The quilting was my own design. I really love how it came out. I used Cindy's scribbling technique to "fill in" areas and make others pop out.

Home and Garden - The quilt turned out nice. It's a large quilt custom quilted and did a lot of playing since it was my personal quilt. Gammill Optimum Plus machine.

Watermelon Buffet - This is a lap quilt designed to remind me of a summer picnic.

Autumn leaf wall hanging - Hand painted and bleach discharge fabrics made of 100% cotton and cheesecloth. Beaded waterdrop embellishment.

Floral Collage - fabric collage of drapery and upholstery fabrics, batted, stitched, and embellished with beads, ribbons, machine embroidery and fringing of upholstery fabric for edge.

Hydrangeas in Bloom - This was my initiation into quilting. I finished the top and did the initial quilting in the ditch. My Grandmother, who was in her late 90's at the time, came to live with my Mother and wanted things to quilt to keep her busy. She completed the quilting in the 'windows' of this quilt by hand which made this quilt especially dear to my heart.

Raggedy Hearts - I made this quilt for my step-daughter for her 21st birthday. She always curled up with a flannel quilt I made for her father whenever she would come to visit, so I thought she would like one of her own.

Flying Geese & Stars - Kim Einmo developed a ruler to create the "geese" which also form the star points using strips of the same size and using the "flat top" triangle design to create the triangle and the wings for easy matching and sewing. A great, fun class with the Miami Valley Quilters' Guild (Ohio).

First Quilt

Sunbonnet Sue