Step Into the Colors of the World - Curved block designed by me. Fabrics are people skin tones. Quilting is face profiles. Mirror is so viewer can be part of the quilt.

Flamboyant Galaxy - My imaginative galaxy with odd shaped planets, moons and other swirling shapes.

Daffodil - Based on a photo from my garden.

Sunflowers - Van Gogh's Sunflowers were the starting point - used batiks and hand-dyes for painterly effect flowers.

Poppy - Based on a photo of a poppy from my garden.

Marsh River - Based on a photo of a salt marsh near my home. Originally done as a watercolor painting.

Cats n bugs in the Garden - This was a kit. Fabric and quilt designed by Ellen Edith for Blank Quilting.

Quintessential Sun - Octagon shaped quilt that is a machine pieced lone star with paper pieced background pieces. The fabric is all batiks.

My First Quilt Retreat - I signed up for my first quilt retreat in September 2006 at the Red Barn in Cold Springs, TX. My Friend and Fellow Quilter mentioned that the other quilters took a quilt for their bed. Being a QUILTER, I could not show up without a QUILT for my bed. I had just made a turning twenty quilt for my husband and I felt that I could finish one for me in time for the retreat. I pulled out all my fabrics that had a quilting and sewing theme and one fat quarter of Hersheys Candy Bars, because my friend said that there was no quilt retreat without CHOCOLATE. The Red Barn spoiled me rotten and I have already signed up for this year. (Mr. Red Barn made homemade bread three times a day for us!!!)

For Sophie - This was a baby quilt in honor of Sophie, an adorable black poodle puppy, when she came to live with her mama, Marcia Aurdal. Each of the '30s reproduction fabrics has an animal theme.

Happy 30th Anniversary - My Husband is an Engineer and travels Internationally as part of his job. His only weakness is the newest technology. (Phones, computers, Ipod, TIVO, etc.) I gave him this quilt for our 30th Wedding Anniversary. It contains twenty fat quarters of computers, phones, wires, tools and travel fabrics. He was traveling when I made it, so it was a complete surprise.

Evergreen Pacific - This quilt incorporated a sailboat pattern I had created earlier with original foundation-pieced trees, mountains, and water to represent the Puget Sound area. It was a congratulation gift for friends on their purchase of a local publishing company.

Yo-Yo Lady - There are 400 Yo-Yos in this miniature quilt. I was a member of a ladies group that met once a week at a member's home. We worked on whatever project each of us had in progress, talked, laughed and ate. I became known as the YO-YO Lady while working on this project. Twelve years later, I am still good friends with some of the ladies and they still point out yo-yos to me.

Looped and Lost - Each square in this miniature quilt is 1" x 1'. I used a technique that I saw in a quilting magazine. (I can not put my hands on it at this time. I'll keep looking.) The quarter circle in each square is not pieced. They were carefully cut from black fabric with white dots and white fabric with black dots using a clear template. At the qult show, everyone kept coming to me and saying, How did you piece those little squares. I told them to take a closer look, but had to confess the trick.

Pink Anthuriums - Adapted Hawaiian silhouette design using multiple fabrics. Hand quilted in traditional Hawaiian echo quilting style.

Maddie's Bullseye - Quilt was a gift for my youngest granddaughter, Madison. Some of the blocks came from an internet swap.

Batik Convergence - Quilt was made to hang in reception area of the professional firm I own with my husband.

Wildflowers - 2" squares were arranged on design wall, then machine pieced.