Into My Woods - A Memory Quilt - Childhood memories...Roaming the woods, fishing the river, picking Minnesota wild flowers which are needle turned appliqued in the border along with leaves from 4 main trees. Juried into Paducah AQS show.

Celebration of Feathered Stars & Wildflowers - This raffle quilt is a collaboration of 22 members of the guild who love to paper piece, hand applique & embroider. Someone will be lucky to win this @ show in August 2014.

Batik Fishies - Purchased hand painted Island Batik fish squares set in simple and dramatic pattern.

13 Owls - Appliqued owl with continuous prairie point strips on body surrounded by log cabin & fussy cut owl squares. Pattern found in fabric store & fabric found at Mary Jo's in Gastonia, NC.

Reflections of Romance - Made for our 35th Anniversary....watercolor with needle turned applique of swans, roses and ribbons on top.

Ribbon Weave - Fabric purchased at Hanny's Sew'n Basket in Appomattox, VA Nov 2012. House warming gift for friend.

Only Dead Fish - Purchased in Council Bluffs, Iowa during my "retirement" trip. Fit my attitude (and astrological sign - Pisces) during my last weeks of work.

Becoming a out door woman - I go to BOW (Becoming a Outdoor Wamon) in Alabama every year. They have a action every year to raise money for women to attend that can't afford to pay. I made this quilt so other women can learn to enjoy our great outdoors. It is our day, Sun rise, walking through the trees, our classes, and all the birds flying around.

Luna - I had this quilt on the design wall for over 6 months playing with the colors and learning more about contrast. The idea came from an advertisement for a quilt show. I was challenged also with the piecing of the circles. Embroidery was added when I decided it would make a great gift for my nieces graduation.

Squared - Red, Black and white school colors used in this quilt - backing is flannel and pieced in a zig-zag design. I liked the bold graphic fabrics and simple block design that creates nice movement for the eye. Sammy was the valedictorian of her class and went on to study at MIT.

Falling Leaves #4 - Real leaves were used to discharge on Black fabric. Copies of leaves were made using a fusible web tracing of actual leaves used then applied to batik fabric. Cut out leave were then fused to the discharged fabric over the original leave image but off a ¼ in to creative the shadow. Border, batting and backing added then quilted by machine

Geeked - This was a gift for my niece Janelle and her now husband Matt. I used whites in the background, about 15 different ones with a very subtle pattern. Since this was a wedding quilt I wanted some traditional white included. The original pattern called for a green background. The Groom is techie and does a lot of computer repair, programming etc. so I thought the pattern was fun with the squares representing pixels.

Falling Leaves #3 - Real leaves were used to discharge on Black fabric. Copies of leaves were made using a fusible web tracing of actual leaves used then applied to batik fabric. Cut out leave were then fused to the discharged fabric over the original leave image but off a ¼ in to creative the shadow. Border, batting and backing added then quilted by machine

Fallng Leaves # 2 - Real leaves were used to discharge on Black fabric. Copies of leaves were made using a fusible web tracing of actual leaves used then applied to batik fabric. Cut out leave were then fused to the discharged fabric over the original leave image but off a ¼ in to creative the shadow. Border, batting and backing added then quilted by machine