Kristi's Garden - A few years ago, my best friend Kristi asked me to make a wall hanging with a fat quarter packet of purples and greens. But I had so much fabric left over, I couldn't leave well enough alone! This pattern worked so well to use up the leftover fabric -- she now has a lap quilt to go along with the wall hanging.

Blue Jean Surprise - This is a quilt made for my son out of his worn out jeans. It is pieced and backed with flannel. It weighs a TON and the quilting was challenging because of the weight. I had fun cutting up his jeans and included several pockets for storing things like the remote for his TV, an MP3 player, etc. In the center block I even included a patch with the fly of a pair of jeans. This made a closeable pocket, and for fun I lined the inside of this block with a pair of his boxer shorts! This is a wonderful quilt to cuddle under!

Chain of Love - This is the oversized lap quilt I made for my husband. This was my first attempt with flannel. My husband chose the fabrics he wanted (I think he made really good choices). This picture was taken while the quilt was hanging in a local quilt show in Elephant Butte, NM.

Harvest Home - Sorry that the image is sideways.

Geese Quilt

Sewing Room Sampler - I wanted to learn different blocks so I took a beginner class based on the book "Start Quilting with Alex Anderson". The various fabric prints have sewing notions, so it hangs in my sewing room!

Machine Lace 1 - Lace, or fabric made of threads on water soluble fabric is beaded onto one quilted sandwich layered atop another for a glistening play of texture.

Avalon - Colours flow in and out of each other hinting at the depth of the forest or lake and the light filtering through the threes or waters surface.

Katie's College Graduation - I made this quilt out of my daughter's old t-shirts as a college graduation present for her.

Amelia's Fairies - made for my 3 year old grand daughter who was in the ' must be pink with fairies' phrase. my own design, very easy to do.

My Chantelle - Designed by Ricky, sewn at his 'caveman quilting' workshop approx 1988, using fabric hand dyed by myself. It is a favourite of mine.

Feel the Rythmn!! - This was a Guild challenge using only black and white with the red fabric they provided. No gray!! I made it for my son who is a drummer.

Red and White Kaleidoscope

Tumbling Columns - Stack-n-Whack Quilt made from the ugliest fabric in the discount pile, a design of flower-twined architectural columns. An experiment that worked.

Yikes My Stripes are Draggin' - My daughter drew the dragon in high school and I turned it into a quilt :)

Five Years of Tumbling Blocks - My first and only handmade quilt from start to finish. I had lots of scrap fabrics in jewel tones and wanted to try English Paper Piecing. I vowed to do it all by hand - piecing, quilting and binding. I learned a lot on this quilt, but only worked on it periodically over five years while waiting at school activities, doctors appointments and traveling. I also learned that I prefer machine assembly and quilting, but like having something to take with me.

Maynard the Monkey - When one of our Quilters by the Sea guild members became pregnant, we immediately started planning a baby shower. Daisy is from Costa Rica so she painted a monkey tree on the nursery wall. I made Maynard the Monkey to bring a smile to her new baby's face.