I Danced with the Fishermen - Inspired by "Lord of the Dance."

Chicken Chop Suey - I started this quilt at a retreat and put it away. I got it back out and decided that the pieces falling off the side was what it needed. The fabric is all chickens, hence the name.

Sunflowers of Hope - Materials/Techniques: Silk fusion, feathers, burlap, metal, wood, ribbon, photographs, etc.; mixed media collage.

Memory Quilt for Mrs Lerch - This quilt was made as a gift for there teacher. My friends daughter and the other 8th graders are moving on to a high school. They each designed their block on 8X10 sheet of paper. I then took their designs and transfered them to fabric. The parents donated the fabrics plus a little of my stash of course. This was such a fun quilt to make I quilted it in the ditch with a feather stitch. The kids will present it to their teacher this friday so I am hoping she will enjoy it.

Mirror Ball Challenge

Perspective - Materials/Techniques: I was at a retreat and somebody had brought a bag of pre-fused scraps. I had some handmade paper with me and wanted to see if the texture would come through fused fabric. It didn’t. SO, I was left with this pretty 8.5”x11” sheet of fused fabric scraps. I was reading “Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project” and saw a piece where somebody did reverse appliqué and I liked how the color of the background fabric came through. However, instead of fabric for my top layer, I used (Lumiere paints) Peltex, on which I traced and then cut out a pattern from a photo of a circular staircase. Quilted with mono filament on top (gold poly on back), bordered and backed with a commercial solid, bound with commercial batik.

I Believe in Fairies - Whole cloth (cotton/linen blend), painted. Tree leaves were made using the snippets technique. Fairy was made using a suede-like upholstery fabric, with angelina wings.

Ride Boldly Ride - Whole cloth (poly/cotton knit) with cotton borders, binding and backing. A quilter wouldn't normally choose to use a knit, but the piece just said "mountains" to me, so I used it. I made the actual mountains with organza, painted and heavily free motion quilted - with liquid beads sprinkled across them as snow. The "sky" is free motion quilted in silver metallic thread. The road is painted corduroy. The tree line is fiber and the large tree is painted peltex heavily quilted and embellished with fiber branches.

Daddy's Girl - Made this for my husband's birthday. Our dauschund is a Daddy's girl through and through. I think she just tolerates the rest of us!

Hi Mom! - Whole cloth (dupioni silk) dye painted. Rocks were drawn and colored with Caran d'Ache Neocolor crayons, then thread painted and quilted separately on another piece of beige silk and appliqued on. Figure was printed from the original photograph and fastened to the piece when finished. Background has been highlighted with Jaquard fabric paints and Neocolor crayons in places.

Double Wedding Ring Miniatures - This miniature was started a few years back but never finished. Came across it in a move and decided it was too beautiful to stay in a bag. Wone Second Place in local quilt show.

Montana Cartwheel - I saw this quilt on the internet and fell in love with it's scrappy style and of course, those New York Beauties. I used only fabrics from my stash and a lot of them!

My first crazy quilt - This wall quilt is hand pieced and embellished in the traditional crazy quilt technique.

Winning Hand - This is the back of the Quilt. The front of the quilt is the Winning Hand Quilt pattern in the same fabrics.

Suil De - A round robin project. The center block is a block design by Marcia Hohn, called God's Eye. Suil De is the Gaelic translation. I love this quilt because some very dear quilting friends helped to create it.

Butterfly Fantasy

30's stars - The quilt is twin sized and made of all 30's original and reproduction prints. No two stars are the same print.

Rileys Quilt - My Grand daughters Quilt