Welcome Ethan Alexander - I planned and designed this baby quilt in EQ6 after seeing a picture in a magazine. I pieced and quilted it on my Bernina Aurora 440QE by stitching in the ditch with Superior Threads "Highlights."

Noah's Ark - I used a purchased panel with two goals in mind: to practice free motion quilting and to make a quilt to welcome a new family member.

My Funny Flower - This was a one day class I took this summer to learn curved, pieced applique on a foundation.

Quilted Chanukah Post Card - Catching up with posting! Hope it's OK to put up PC's because I love doing these to hone decorative quilting skills. For the 07 Festival of Lights, I zeroed in on the flame and digitized an applique design with Layout and Editing in PE Design 6. The blue part of the flame has the Hebrew letters that are found on the dreydel, which since the Diaspora stand for "A great miracle happened there," meaning in Israel. However, dreydels in Israel say "A great miracle happened here," and because I sent this card to a friend in Israel, I substituted the pey (stands for PO which means "here") for the shim (stands for SHAM) which means "there." I spent about 20 hours creating the design and about 1 1/2 hrs to make each card on my Baby Lock Ellageo3.

Red Fish, Blue Fish, Tic-Tac-Toe Fish - This is the second of two quilts I made using the attic windows block and I was trying to achieve the effect of an aquarium within an aquarium. I only had a yard of the fish fabric and I fussy cut the fish to make them look like a game of tic-tac-toe.

Ventanas de los Muertos - This quilt was actually started sometime in 2004. The top was finished then I lost interest because I wanted to make other quilts and my machine quilting skills were not that great yet. I wanted to more than just stitch in the ditch. My New Years resolution for 2008 was to quilt all of the tops I had made before I could start any more quilts and in so doing would improve my machine quilting. The focus fabric is from Alexander Henry, called fiesta de los muertos, thus the title Ventanas de los Muertos (Windows of the Dead).

Puzzle Quilt Blocks - Paula Nadelstern's Puzzle Block Quilt book was the project chosen by the 9 am Saturday Sampler Class at my local quilt shop for 2007. Doing this quilt was probably one of the most rewarding and frustrating projects I ever worked on but I will never again look at a piece of fabric without first thinking how it would work in a puzzle block. Seeing Paula on The Quilt Show was wonderful and brought back all the memories of making this quilt last year.

Sweet Romance - This quilt was started in a needle-turn applique class in Feb. 2006. I used a mixture of modern and traditional fabrics to make the 36 blocks in this quilt. Hence the 2 yrs it took me to finish it!

Birds of a Feather - Every year my local quilt shop offers a mystery quilt by Judy Hopkins when we start our Saturday Sampler projects for the year.

Blue Stars - Free Walmart BOM pattern. Grandson needed a quilt for his upper bunk and this one was almost finished and fit a boy.

Butterfly Mystery - My Mom, Sister-in-law and I all got together at my Mom's for a three day retreat. I had found this mystery pattern for free from Billie Lauder's website and made my husband print it off and put each step in envelopes for all three of us. Same pattern, three different sets of fabric. Wonderful retreat.

Blue Ribbon Bargello - Tony Munoz taught this all day class at our local guild. He is a hoot. My daughter wants it for her wall behind her couch. I am in the process of quilting it on my home sewing machine with sweeping lines following the colors.

Celtic Stain Glass - I love doing bias tape stain glass quilts and have done several usually flowers. This is the only one I have kept for myself. Several were sold at guild silent auction and my friend owns 3.

Un-named - I took an original, Rhapsody-based design and turned it into a small whole cloth quilt. Purle 100 wt silk thread on Royal Blue cotton sateen. Quilt is not yet bound in this photo.

Spider Web - A Freind saw the quilt & did some reseach on the web. Found out it's an old pattern. We got a group of girls together did some fabric swaping & we each made our own quilt.

Global Warming - I've had this vision for over a year. I bought Ricky's Convergence Quilts book and it all came together for me.

Just Lion Around - Just Lion Around: Made from one piece of fabric, plus fabric for the cubes. The animals around the edge are from the original fabric. A piece of the original fabric is on the back of the quilt.

Head Above Water - Head Above Water: Made from one piece of fabric. Original fabric used for the lining. Coat pattern is by Indygo Junction # IJ764. I created the embroidery the fish appliqués and placed in the seaweed on the jacket.