Sometime, Never. - A baby quilt, design inspired by a Tudor rose, hand quilted using soft pink green and lilac, crosshatching in white. Made when I knew my life would not include having children.
Big Island Anthurium - While living in Hawaii, I took a workshop with Jane Sassaman that challenged me to do original work. Anthuriums, the native flower of the Big Island, are easy to draw. I once thought that applique was the A word but Jane's techniques enabled me to make this quilt and many others.
Romancing the Star - I pieced the Feathered Lone Star center, added 4 Briar Rose blocks in the corners, then modified the applique pattern for the inner border. Paper pieced outer border w/rick rack edging.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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).
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