Patchwork Reindeer - The embroidery designs were purchased from Embroidery Library.

That's Macaroni? - This was from a Piping Hot Curves class from Susan Cleveland at the Badlands Quilters Guild Retreat in October 2007. It was a fun class. You could say my husband named this quilt.

Wildflowers!

jodie's baby - Made for my granddaughter for her first child

Wheels Of Time

Lone star

Hi Ho, Hi Ho It's Home from work we go... - I learned to make this in my quilt guild.

Calla Lilies - Airbrushed with fiber reactive dyes & heavily quilted. Leaves are quilted to texturize appx 1/8" apart or less.

Midnight Vortex - I made this for my 5 yr old son. The quilted stars on border and embroidery on back are done with glow in the dark thread. The kids love when I do that.

Split Infinitives - This quilt resulted after I took a workshop with artist Gerry Chase where we did a lot of painting on fabric and free drawing using a tjanting tool (the traditional tool for drawing with wax to make batik fabric). These squiggle circles really speak to me!

A Country Journal "Grandma's Chickens" - My kids raised all of these kinds for 4-H. My grandson was "Helping" me with a lot of it and he kept asking me if they were, "Grandma's Chickens".

Benny's 50 th birthday quilt - This is the backside of the quilt.

Benny's 50th birthday quilt - A dear friend of mine, Benny, recently turned 50! A very special birthday, so I thought that deserved a very special present! About 15 years ago he became very ill and was taken too the hospital! I made him a litlle tree from beads! When he told me a few months ago he still had that tree after all these years, I was so deeply touched, I just couldn't believe it! That's when I decided to make him a quilt, a life in pictures! It wasn't very easy to get a hold of the pictures and keeping it a secret from him, but in the end I got there! Seeing it was my first quilt and I had only two months to finish it I thought I wouldn't make it to big and do only the front side with pictures of him and make the back of the quilt very simple with only one or two fabrics! As I got swept away by this project, it actually almost took over my life, I got this great idea of doing something special with the backside aswell!!! Seeing he is a big fan of our kings and queens I decided to get the whole Belgium history on the back of the quilt!!! In the end I had to put the metal to the pedal ....I finished it two hours before his birthday party!!! The exspression on his face was priceless and worth every second of the time I put into it! This was almost two monts ago and the quilt is still the talk of the town... Hope you like it too! Brigitte

Pride of the Prairie - Sherrie Coppenbarger and I jointly designed and constructed this quilt with help from Kelly Romine and Konnie Arneman. This was our 2004 Gems of the Prairie Raffle quilt - and in the end I won it. We raised $5500 for the guild that year - twice as much as previous quilts.

Wallflower Bloom - Part of Wall flower Challenge - one of my first original quilts. Three dimension with hundreds of beads

Carlotta in the Secret Garden - Hand appliqued (and learned why machine applique was suggested!), machine pieced, 1st quilt with mostly free-motion quilting (monofilament), embelleshed with fabric painting (1st attempt at painting). Had lots of fun with this quilt!

Windmills for my brother - The pattern for this is original using a traditional windmill block. This block was one of our block lotto monthly quilts the year I co-chaired this I made it for my brother Tim who provided a bone marrow transplant for our youngest brother Mike - who died in 2001 fighting lymphoma

I don't know if I'm coming or going - This is me and my bug - based upon a doodle I did