Deadwood Chinatown - Our guild took this class from a local Native American Quilter Vi Colombe. I used Japanese prints to see the effect. I finished it and put in my business as a display and my husband sold it to a lady from New Mexico.

Colin's Dragon - Constructed for a small boy who loves dragons and the color green. Finding a dragon fabric that was green was the real challenge after that it was a hoot!

My Favourite Season - I ran this wallhanging pattern as a Block of the Month on my web site in 2000. I had retired the year before and my husband was going to retire that fall and we were "Heading South to Arizona" for the winter. Although Fall is my favourite season this wall hanging has a double meaning for me.

On Fire With the Spirit - I began this quilt in a class with Flavin Glover on integrating othe rblocks into a skewed Log Cabin. I used very narrow strips of the blue and greens and wide strip of the nuetrals. As I shashed the blocks a cross emerged. I then added grap vines in the open areas. All echo quilted around the applique.

Solar Convergence - This was started in the first class I took from Ricky and has become a favortie of my family. Being a sci-fi fan I immediately saw two suns colliding, hence the name. The quilting is in a varigated thread and suggest the flow of "stellar" material from one sun to the other.

Confused Geese - Blue and cream fabrics, designed in EQ. Inspired by the way geese in our area tend to fly north and south as I pass them on the way to work in fall. The interstate crosses forest and wetlands and I know the geese are following their food, but I seems to me they can't make up their minds what season it is!

A Modern Victorian - Almost Finshed quilt. Quilted all but the Borders. Designed in EQ4 originally and inspired by the Moda Folk Art Wedding Fabric. Pieced Blocks were paper pieced because of unuaual block size. Center Initial are "V" & "I" for my daughter, Victoria, who is a very "modern" Victoria.

Inspiration I - Whole cloth on Green Cotton Sateen, quilted with grey thread. Flat "Flange" type red piping at the binding. Mottled Green Binding. Inspired by Diane Gaudynski's work and friendship.

1930's Applique Sample - Bright colors make this small quilt very exciting to look at.

No Drop Cloth - This quilt was started at a wonderful workshop with Katie Pasquini Masopust at MAQS on making abstract quilts. A piece of paper saturated with water and some paint flicks and droplets was the inspiration. It kind of evolved from there.

Log cabin quilt as you go - Took a class at local quilt shop, made Christmas quilt as you go wall hanging, adapted it to make this baby quilt. I made this for a friend to give away

chinese fan - made for a friend. chinese writing spells out their names. she has not seen it yet.

sail away - This is a baby quilt that I did for a friend's baby boy.

"Changes Along the Path" - This was begun as a lap quilt for my mother in law. The six blocks seemed too dark on their own, when I saw the landscape strip and the "Tuscan Wildflowers", I could "see" the rest of the quilt. It became a California King sized bedspread, which is shown here with the two matching pillow shams.

Little Girls Spirit - There is a little girls spirit upstairs in the old house we bought. She is the inspiration for the colors and design for this upstairs bedroom. The doll bed in the room has a quilt to match, the bed has pillow shams to match and will soon have curtains too.

Kayla's patch - Kayla laid out some of the fabric and Grandma sewed.

Take care of the children

Remembrances - This was my 2006-07 project for my friend who retired in May. There are 70 blocks with signatures of coworkers, family, and sorority sisters. The little squares are finished 1 inch with the signature rectangle being 1 in. by 3 in. and each block finished at 4 inches. This was a great "scrappy" project. The receiver is on the left and the maker(me) is on the right.