Pretty Kitties All in a Row - This is a quilt my Mom made for me. We were trying to figure out exactly when. Its older than my son who is 19 now. Mom machine pieced it, hand quilted it.
Rainbow Storm - Made for grandaughter's High School graduation. She picked pattern and some of the fabrics. The big challenge was to find the gradations of some of the primary colors.
Echos and Breezes - This is a sampler of 7 different rust-dyed fabrics, some of which have been over-printed with the image of an arched walkway in a monastery in Portugal.
Abundance - This began as a photograph of tulips taken in the Botanical Conservatory in Fort Wayne. I love the way the filters separated the colors and created texture within the petals.
Exploring Fabric Choices - I was a quilt tester for Annie's Exploring Fabric Choices Workshop patterns; this quilt is the result. It came with Annie to the set of The Quilt Show.
Quilt Diva - I altered the pattern so the “diva” would look more like me—I added my hair, my glasses, and my taste in fabrics, but I forgot the big earrings.
Ashley - Ashley was my mother’s much beloved dog. Ashley was an older dog when my mother got her. She didn’t get to spend many years with her. After Ashley died, I made this quilt for my mother.
Is It Summer Yet? - This quilt was juried into the Pacific International Quilt Festival in 2003 and chosen for the "In Full Bloom: Floral Quilts" Exhibit in 2004.
As Close to Kandinsky As I'll Get - I absolutely love Kandinsky's work. Of course, I'll never be able to afford an original. I decided that making this quilt was as close as I'll get! The borders are machine quilted; the body is hand quilted. It is made with commercial and hand-dyed fabrics.
Christel's Quilt - The wish of my friend was to have a quilt with the main batik fabrics (flowers, spirals) and that the whole quilt will have mainly brown colors like her furniture.
There is no real pattern or block, the color and the contrast do the work.
Party Colors - This quilt top is from a design by Tricia Cribbs called Turning Twenty. The bright batiks were part of a kit which was available at the Cornwagon Quilt Store in Springville, Utah.
Castle Rock - I had the wonderful fortune of being able to attend a workshop by sue Gilgen in which she introduced me to raw-edge applique and fusible webbing. Sue helped me choose the fabrics, which I think makes the quilt so beautiful. This quilt reminds me of our family vacations on a houseboat at Lake Powell.
Country Pineapple - This quilt was paper-pieced using mostly scrap fabrics from my collection. It began as a smaller project in a class at my favorite local quilting store, The Stitching Corner. It started out as a twin quilt but quickly grew to queen size. This quilt holds a place of honor on my bed.
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