Tom's Trains - I used a train panel to make this original design for my brother. He was very happy with it.

Pinwheel Baby Quilt - Cute pattern with easy to make prairie points on the inside border. I changed up the # of blocks from the original pattern.

I Spy - I made this I-Spy quilt for my nephew. I was real pleased with my mitered corners since I don't do them very often.

Pear II

Green Pear

Lifedance - While on safari in Kenya, I was struck by the intricate and eternal dance of life and death between predator and prey. To depict that in this quit, I overlapped zebra stripes and giraffe spots in the middle and surrounded this prey with the tracks of the big cats: lion, leopard and cheetah. I then added the bones of their prey scattered about as we found them on the savannah. Hand-dyed cotton, cotton thread, wool and poly-cotton batting, Shiva paint stiks.

Give Thanks - I REALLY like Cynthia England's "Picture Piecing" although it's not everyone's cup of tea. It can be a bit hard to find great Thanksgiving-themed; this one spoke to me. I tried a little trapunto in the letters to make them puff out more, but it's hard to tell that it's there. Oh, well, nothing ventured, nothing gained! I was happy with the touch of fabric paint on corn and pears, giving them just a bit more dimension. This time: ventured and gained!

Cockscombs, Tulips and Berries - This quilt is one of my favorites. Most of my quilts are given as gifts, but this one is mine. I found the pattern in a book I had purchased and I just had to make it. The background fabric is a tone on tone print of pomegranates. I loved this piece of fabric and knew it was best used in large pieces. I also had fun collecting blue fabrics that would work with the focus fabric. Techniques used are needle turned applique, reverse applique, machine piecing and machine quilting. The beautiful free form quilting on the background was done by Ruth Stonesifer. I did the quilting within the applique pieces.

Treasure Chest by Quilt in a Day - This was a free download pattern that I used to sharpen my quilting technique. I had to add four squares to get it large enough for my son's King size bed. I used wool batting and free motion quilted it myself. I used a stitch in the ditch for the boarders around each square.

Hero Star - This is a Quilt of Valor I created from my improvisational "Star and Points Spinning in a Square". I used 100% quilter's cotton Valor fabric, 80/20 Hobbs batting, Omni poly wrapped poly by Superior Threads for the longarm. Design is totally 6" squares and half square triangles.

Yes, Christmas is coming - I followed Alex Anderson's class on The Quilt Show.com when I made this quilt. It is paper pieced and long arm quilted.

Peace and Plenty - This quilt is an updated version of a block called "Peace and Plenty". I've made this quilt at a time in my life when I have peace and I have plenty for which I am grateful to my Heavenly Father.

Advent Scramble - Advent calendar with scrambled numbered pockets - applique, paint, quilt, embellishments to delight my grandkids.

Tree of Life - many, many multicolored 2/2 inch blocks, sewn toigether to form areas of sea, swamp, forest, mountains, desert and sky. Tree stitched on in tread. Animals, black and white felt were inspired by Native American motives. Upper and lower border have embroidered texts from Darwin and Chief Seattle.

Christmas4 - #4 Christmas birds and the holiday season. Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making and assembling them. Everyone have a wonderful holiday season. PEACE!!

Christmas3 - #3 of Christmas songs. These were so cute and I got to use ALL my threads.

Christmas2 - My series of Christmas embroidery. Every year I make I Christmas quilt/wall hanging. This is part of this years series. I took almost all year to do 32 designs then figure out I needed more. Something to tie them all together. That's where this years birdhouses came to be.

Christmas 1 - I love machine emb. Last year I purchased these bird designs with Christmas songs (birdhouses this year) and thought about "1" quilt-well to see them all I needed to make at least four. Thank you to EmroideryLibrary and all the wonderful designs.Lets not forget all the thread mfgrs. R/A Isacord, Superior, Maderia,Sulky.