Hexagon Flower - This wall quilt took my quilting to the next level. I quilted it on my Janome 6600. I traced the border feathers onto tissue paper & free-motion quilted those. The cross hatching was tedious, but easy to do.

Max's Quilt - I had never tried tumbling blocks until this quilt. I had three solid fabrics and decided that was the perfect block. I love the depth. This quilt is for a baby's room, but I want to make one now with beautiful batiks.

Victoria's T- Shirt Quilt - Using my daughter's T-shirt from her athletic, academic and music activities, each t-shirt square was stabilized and surrounded by fabrics that went along with all of her activities - it was like making a puzzle! Meander quilting design with hidden messages!

Blue Hawaiian Hibiscus - Using needle turn appliqué and Hawaiian echo quilting the flowers appear to be floating on the blue Hawaiian sea.

The Red Quilt - Needle turn appliquéd and machine quilted on my Janome 6600 using a variety of funky fabrics!

A Beach Runs Through It - For our 2013 Quilt Show, the Washington Stars Quilt Guild did a challenge called, "A River Runs Through It." The challenge required the quilts to be 21" square, with some form of "river" in the bottom third of the quilt. I included the beach and plumeria in the design because they hold special places in my heart. I hand painted the entire quilt top, as a single piece, then layered and quilted it.

Pandora's Valentine - Hand appliqued, machine pieced, machine quilted using freehand and ruler techniques on an A-1 longarm machine. My 11th longarm quilt!

Shelby's Quilt - I made this quilt for my oldest daughter completely off the top of my head.

Sisters - Based on a photo of my sisters and I.

Malachi's Promise

A Little New Lebanon Fun - While at the retreat I need discarded fabrics to use as my leaders and enders. Seeing that Ron and discarded small pieces of Fabric I decided that those would do the job. Once I had taken the fabric I noticed that the discarded pieces were of a size big enough that I could do a miniature quilt. Once the top was finished I did give it to Ron as a gift but then took it back as I felt I should finish the quilt. The mini quilt was given back to Ron on September 27, 2012.

around the block - I was looking though a book of ceramic designs from around the world when I found a pattern I particularly liked. After a bit of calculating and modifying my Around the Block quilt was created. The book was Geometric Patterns & Borders, by David Wade (A non quilting book).

Frog in a blender - One day on my way home I saw a child walking home with a black and white checkered backpack with some minimum color added. For the rest of the way home I kept thinking of the back pack I had just seen. A few days later I put needle to fabric and made the Frog in the blender quilt.

Nos Aieuls (Our ancestors) - Earlier in 2006 I made 2 crossword quilts, one for my Mother Doris Léger (née Bourque) and one for my brother in law Gilles Babin. A few weeks after my mother was given the quilt my uncle Laurie was shown the quilt. He asked my mother if he could show the quilt during the Congress mondial 2006 Bourque family reunion, when my mother mentioned this to me I got the idea to do a 3rd quilt as a memory of the families who founded l’Acadie. As I started doing research it became apparent that this project would be of mammoth proportion in doing and in a completed quilt as there are over 800 familes who founded l’acadie. Through la Société des acadiens et des acadiennes de Nouveau Brunswick I was able to obtain a list of all the family names who had deported. This quilt is not about the deportation but of some of the families who had a hand in making l’Acadie what it is today. This quilt is in part the genealogy of the Acadians, it show how we are all intertwined making us one strong family.

Grinch Quilt - This was a kit I received as a gift.

Cali's Quilt - This is my first completed quilt. I took a beginning quiltmaking class and we created sampler blocks. It is primarily pieced but there is one hand appliqued heart on it.

Nancy Martha - This pattern was produced by Silver Thimble/New Beginnings Designs.