Ghosts - This was one of my first attempts at machine applique. It was challenging but fun.

HANDS ALL AROUND - QUILT IS MADE OF 4ROWS/4 BLOCKS EACH. EACH ROW IS A DESIGN MADE WITH EACH OF MY FOUR GRANDCHILDREN - SHOWING THINGS THEY LOVE. EACH CHILD HAD HIS/HER HAND TRACED UPON FOLDED PAPER, UNFOLDED AND VOILA! A WREATH - OR HANDS ALL AROUND. THIS QUILT IS THEIR FRIDAY NIGHT ON THE FLOOR, MOVIES AND POPCORN QUILT. THEY LOVE IT AND ARE ALL INTERESTED IN KNOWING HOW TO MAKE QUILTS. I WOULD RATHER THEY LOVE THEIR QUILTS, THAN PUT THEM UP FOR THE FUTURE. WHAT A JOY TO MAKE.

HURRICANE NESS

Three Kimonos - Another foray into applique. I seem to love this type of quilting. And I also fell in love with Japanese fabrics from this pattern.

Elegant Sunbonnet Sue - This is a quilt my grandmother made for me when I was a little girl. The Sue's are all hand stitched in a blanket stitch. I don't know if my grandmother every made other quilt. This is the only one I know of. She was more of a needlworker and knitter. I need to do some repair work to this quilt to get it back into good condition.

Cross Quilt - Based on Marilyn's class at Houston. She had a cross quilt as a sample, I knew I wanted to make a cross. Two years later it was finished.

Multi-Chromatic Stained Glass Quilt - HS Graduation gift for my son, Chris. It started out as a BOM. Chris picked the fabrics so I made 12 more and gave it to him.

Pinwheels & Stars - Brandi designed this quilt as a project Sophmore year for Geometry class. I just had to make it as a graduation present.

Lend me a Tenor - Record of a Senior High School Play in which my daughter had a lead in...the center is the copy of the playbill.

Crazy About Mardi Gras - Guild Challenge "The Recycle of Life". All fabric on the front had to have had another life, so old clothes, Mardi Gras beads, silk ribbon, and beads.

One Hundred Years of Marriage - In 1999, we added up the years my parents and siblings and myself had been married and it was 100. Lovely occasion for a family reunion. My first large quilt.

Iris in spring - A paper pieced design of iris using traditional, commercial print fabrics.

Halloween Country - This was a serial published in Australian Patchwork magazined and chosen as the "row quilt" of the year by Nacogdoches Quilt Guild. I chose not to do the illustrated country-charm colors, instead opting to use up my huge stash of Halloween fabrics (and thereby necessitating some changes in design, too.) This took a whole year of fun and angst, but was well worth the effort. It was also my first applique effort, as shown in the center-block closeup.

Amanda's Boondoggle - This bright orange and pink quilt is a birthday surprise for a Girl Scout who needed something lightweight and durable to take to overnights.

Bitty Baskets & Hexagons Wall Hanging - I finished this quilt March 26, 2008 and self-published the pattern for my guild's 30th Anniversary's quilt show that began March 28th. It got a lot of great reviews from all of the quilters in attendance.

Aricka's Keepsake - In 1999 I downloaded the pattern (and I'm happy to see it back in the Keepsake Quilting catalog this year as a kit) to make a little quilt for my (then) four-year-old granddaughter. She wanted to learn to sew, so I helped her trace out the pattern for the watering can and start her on blanket stitch. It didn't take her long to decide the sewing machine was more her cup of tea (as it is mine). She finished the block on the machine. I used it in the quilt, but expanded and added some alterations of my own to make the quilt larger. It was finally finished this year, entered in the local show, and took Best of Show. I was shocked, Aricka was thrilled.

Around the Block - This little paper-pieced ornament was part of a BOM where each participant chose a theme and the members created a block for her--Christmas ornaments in this case.