Tuscan Landscape - This quilt was made as a thank-you to a fellow family historian who found my family Bible 48 years ago. She held on to it hoping to find someone who wanted it. I found it thru website Ancestry.com. She mailed the Bible to me. She loved the quilt I made for her.

Julie - My 2 year-old granddaughter needed a "blankee" for naptime at daycare. I chose the bright stripes and fun animal prints to give her something fun to look at while falling asleep. I appliqued her name in the squares rather than writing her name on the back for identification. She loves her blankee.

Mariner's Compass - Finally made a quilt for my own bed,just took 6 or 7 years to complete.

Hearts to Adam - I was so overwhelmed with joy to become an aunt, I just thought "lots of big hearts" when it came time to make a quilt for Adam.

Molly's Tree - Our youngest daughter’s “collage” quilt; from roots, through the trunk, to an emerging bargello at top, and the leaves shed back to the earth, the fantasy quilt life-cycle is complete.

Circles - I wanted to practice making circles using the freezer paper method from a Simply Quilts episode. However, I wanted to fracture the circles to make it more interesting so I used the freezer paper method to make large circle blocks and then cut them and rearranged them many times until I chose this very traditional arrangment. This is one of the first quilts I made that wasn't a planned gift. I took it out of the quilt basket in the familyroom to take a picture of it. My granddaughter and I curl up with it on the couch when watching Noggin.

Mythical horses- Laurel Burch fabric - I love Laurel Burch fabrics. I bought the mythical horse fabric for my nephew's daughter who loves horses. It's still just a quilt top but will be finished this summer.

piano keys - I had a lot of 4inch batik squares. I cut them in half and machine pieced them for the keys. The strips came from my black and white fabric stash. It is still a quilt top and will become a completed quilt when I need a gift.......where almost all of my quilts go.

Pop! - The center of the quilt is a medallion of French knots in a traditional quilting pattern. Then other fabrics from my stash just blended together to frame this.

How to Mend a Heart - The paper pieced hearts used only scraps, then were inset into squares, machine embroidered, with a flannel border and back. Machine quilted.

Home - This quilt was made for a Morningstar Quilt Guild Challenge. The challenge was to use the color red, the word "home", and the log cabin block. I made 4 log cabin blocks and appliqued a block over them. The applique block was embroidered with the word "home" and some flowers.

Quilting Friends II - This is a round robin quilt done by 6 members of the Morningstar Quilt Guild. I designed my own center block and then passed off to the next person. Each person had the quilt for 2 months to design and sew their border. I received the finished top a year after making my center block.

April Showers - This quilt was made for a Morningstar Quilt Guild challenge. The challenge was to illustrate a saying without using words. The saying I chose is "April showers bring May flowers."

Summertime - A simple pattern used in a class on hand applique. So much fun to make. I added my own border.

Quilting Friends I - This was pieced by a round robin group in the Morningstar Quilt Guild. The group was called the Simple Squares. I choose my favorite fabrics and the block. The fabrics then circulated monthly with each member piecing a block.

My first quilt - This is my first quilt and I still love it. It is also the only quilt I have quilted that I have not given away. The butterflies flying sideways make me laugh.

Oriental Talking Blocks - This quilt is made just as "Lilly's First Birthday Quilt" using a pattern called "Talking Blocks" by Bethany Reynolds of Stack 'n Whack fame. You can purchase the pattern on her web site. This quilt has a stack 'n whack square on the top of each block and again there are no "Y" seams.

3D Illusion Blocks