Laurie's Sampler - This was my first quilt taught by Charlotte Flesher in 1989. She inspired me from the very beginning and her influence continues in every aspect of my quilting today. Quilt damaged in a fire in December, 2001, restored in 2004, thus the reason for 'fair' condition. Daughter Laurie disagrees and says 'quilt is priceless'!

Squirt - I wanted to make an octogon shaped quilt and this is what I came up with. It is hung with a HangYourQuilt.com hanger and a support bracket. I hurried to get this done for a 'Opus6' gallery show in Eugene, OR.This photo was taken before the bead embellishments were put on. I made this one twice, once as a regular pieced pattern and again as a paper pieced pattern. They both came out O.K. I have a large creative drive and even tho I don't know how to quilt properly I am having a great time learning.

San Antonio Arneson River Theatre - Wallhanging made as a gift for Albert Flores who provided television coverage for the Greater San Antonio Quilt Show

The Window Beyond - All the fabric in this quilt I have hand painted. The center painting was not square so I said O.K. you don't need to be square!! and went on with it. This was also made for the Opus6 gallery show. Oregon Fiber Artists, the art quilt group that I belong to, had an art quilt show at Opus6 last September. It was very interesting, we drew one of the largest crowds ever but none of the quilts sold. People just aren't used to Art quilts!! I really didn't know much about them until I joined the art quilt group.

Diamond in the Ruff - This is the 2nd quilt that I have designed. Thinking about it, I only call the ones that I have spent quite a bit of time and thought on as my 'patterns'. I have "put together' some quilts but I don't call them my patterns. This one I made after'Stingray' and made it the correct size to fit the support hanger and I changed the color to green.

Blanket of Stars - This is the cover quilt on my book, Top This!, recently published by All American Crafts. I designed the block, and made the first block with conventional piecing, but decided paper piecing was easier.

Going to Paradise - Center panel and border are hand painted and paint embellishment added to fish. I was sun painting and trying to paint light rays. I thought this looked like the ocean so added fish, seaweed and shells. Vanessa loved it and wanted it for the nursery when they have little ones.

The Comet - A large variety of batik prints and careful color and value manipulation create a bright, swirling yellow and orange comet streak across a deep purple sky.

Skyrocket - Made for my son, Tyler. I used a wide variety of blue and black prints; each block is different.

Star quilt top - The star blocks were made in a quilt class featuring use of border prints for special effects. The pieced triangle frames around each block are from a Sharyn Craig design.

Messing About in Boats - I based the design for this applique quilt on an E.H. Shepard line-drawing illustration from Kenneth Grahame's book "The Wind in the Willows." Mole is velvet, and Ratty is brown tweed. I love this book, and I love this quilt!

Linda's Sun Moon and Stars - This lap quilt was made for my best friend for her birthday.

Blue Moon - When I first saw this fabric I 'knew' I had to make something out of it. I loved the colors and the designs. I also had to have the round design in it. I prewashed the fabric like I was instructed to do for quilts and much to my dismay the circle had changed into an oval. I had one heck of a time fitting it in and it didn't really fit right. We all love it tho and my DH thought it should be on our living room wall but Squirt finally won out. This quilt is now in Newport on display at the shop where I bought the fabric.

Las Cruces - In the quilt there are 12 different appliqued cross patterns, each having a narrow accent border and an appliqued border inspired by a traditional Spanish timnwork frame design. Each block is machine appliqued in the hoop on a computerized embroidery machine.

Sum Of My Scraps - This quilt was produced to satisfy the criteria of a quilt guild challenge. The hair is fabric that was the given and the theme was: I'm Out of My Box and Loving It". The background fabric is part of a piece made at a sun dying workshop. Of course after producing it, I had no idea how I could use it in a project. The facial parts are leftover bits from a McKenna Ryan BOM project. Thus the title was born.

Lovely Lunacy - My second completed quilt, made for my daughter and her (now) husband. My husband wants me to make one for us, too. I loved doing the applique on it and will probably use the pattern again.

Welcome, Phoebe! - For my brand new (and first) granddaughter. In the Fons & Porter article, the quilt was done all in shades of blue, but I thought the pattern worked really well with the animal print blocks. I'll use the pattern again for other things.

Christmas Star 1 - I modified the design quite a bit to make it possible to paperpiece it. Several of my relatives received variations of this for Christmas this year