Scrap Scape

Lady Liberty Visits New Mexico - This was the 7th quilt I made. First time paper piecing. I used 72 different fabrics.

The Sea & MY Son - Using 18 fabrics with colors and patterns evoking sea plants, water, sand, sunny as well as stormy skies, I made this for my son who lives on Cape Cod.

Pointing The Way - Absolute precision needed to make this pattern. This was my 13th quilt.

Hot Flashes - This is my 18th quilt. Used 22 fabrics. All batiks. Got alot of practice making flying geese.

Bent Out of Shape - Using 18 Batiks, this was my 6th quilt. I try a new technique and design with each quilt. This was fun and may use some of this technique in an art quilt.

Luminous Picnic Star - An octagonal quilt made with batiks, hand dyed and pastel print fabrics inspired by the colors of tropical foliage and flowers as well as the inset triangle fabric.

Cosmic Kaleidoscope - Multi-colored batik strip sets are triangle cut to form mirror sections of the kaleidoscope wedges. The kaleidoscope is set off by two borders, one pieced to set off the medallion.

Tropical Eureka - This quilt is a replacement quilt for my bed. The colors are inspired by yellow and red hibiscus flowers and deep green tropical foliage.

My First Quilt - First Quilt I had ever made. I took a "Quilt in a Day" Class with some friends just for fun, little did I know it would start an addiction!!!

Harmonic Dreams - I made this after seeing Ricky's show for my guild. I bought some of his hand-dyed fabric and his book. I added the batik for the border. Had a great time making it and it won't be my last! It hangs on the wall over my bed.

Lisa's Limes and Flowers - This gorgeous pattern was on the cover of McCall's Quilting magazine. Little did I know when I started it that there were 1044 one inch squares!! Thank God for strip piecing! I made most of it at a guild marathon. Had a ball with the beautiful lime fabrics. I jazzed up the borders a bit.

'Lowers & Butter'lies - Blocks were made in 2000 and put together, quilted and embellished in 2005.

'Lowers & Butter'lies (detail)

Winged Snails - I made this quilt in a workshop to learn how to use the square-in-a-square ruler. My mother had given me the butterfly wings fabric and it 'marinated' in my stash for 3 years before I was ready to use it. My friend (and guild president) Erin Underwood did a beautiful job quilting it with butterflies. The border is my own design.

Feeding the Eagles - This is my first attempt at a landscape quilt. It depicts some of the fauna we have seen at our favorite fishing spot. We enjoy feeding the bald eagles!

Eighties Quilt - This was a mystery workshop through my guild, The Flying Geese. We called it the Eighties because each step called for 'eighty' units. We got sick and tired of counting up to eighty. I really love this quilt, partly because of the polka dot fabric and partly because I normally wouldn't choose a pattern with so many pieces (especially triangles!).

Flower Power - This is what I did with the blocks I received from a block exchange my bee had. Everything is raw edge appliqued except for the yo-yos in the center of the flowers. I usually don't like block exchanges but this one was fun!