Shades of Tiffany - Shades of Tiffany is a 34" x 34x' shadow faux trapunto wholecloth quilt. The binding is made from the same batik fabric that was used under the cotton sateen top. It shows through very subtly until you hold it up to the light. The background fillers were stitched with either white or pale yellow thread, to replicate the different types of glass used in stained glass windows. Two layers of batting were used to enhance the faux trapunto look: Hobbs 80/20 and Quilter's Dream Deluxe Poly. Color was added with Prismacolor pencils and textile medium.
Ohayo Stars - First quilt with triangles. Won second place in the beginner category in the Pacific Patchwork Guild's Winter challenge. Christmas colors combined with an Asian theme! Ohayo pronounced the same as Ohio(for the Ohio star block) means good morning in Japanese.
Reach for the Stars - My daughter helped me pick the theme for this baby quilt made for my neighbor. I quilted a TON of stars using a cookie cutter for a stencil.
Work of Heart - Only used the center of the placemat pattern to make 12 of these miniature(12x12) tabletop quilts as decorations for the "Work of Heart" annual Girl Scout Conference in Tokyo.
no 71 - This is Mark McGuyer at work playing baseball. He hit 70 homeruns for the St Louis cardinals and this is nr 71. I designed pieced and quilted the quilt
Bryan's Cavalry Flag - This quilt was made with the wonderful Stack the Deck technique and my own original pattern for the US Army's cavalry flag. The background was made to resemble camouflage fabric and has Bryan's Army patches sewn on the borders.
MicroCosmos II entry - As soon as I found out the theme for this years MicroCosmos (yesterday, today, and tomorrow), the idea of metamorphosis came to my mind. And that's just perfect for me because I just loooove butterflies :)
I just found out that Peggy bought my quilt! I am so glad that she enjoys it every day.
Wish you were Here - I belong to a Stitch group where we occasionally design a Challenge for ourselves. This was to be titled "Wish you were Here." I decided to render portraits of my parents using tsinko inks and surround them with scanned portions of their letters to one another during their long (49 year) military marriage that included about 20 years of separation. I have boxes of those letters and the family treasures them, of course.
Once the drawings were done and surrounded by the letter fragments, I designed a red border crazy quilt style, and added a blue star in the center. I wanted the finished quilt to resemble the banners shown around town in the homes of those who have a soldier serving overseas.
The quilt won the "Martha's Choice" award at the Heritage Quilters of Huntsville bi-annual quilt show in 2005.
Susan Murphy - Paper pieced wall hanging (with designer quilt hanger) based upon the pattern "Dragonfly Pond" by Stephen Seifert donated to the 2007 Central Florida koi club show & sale.
Purchased at auction by a private collector from Orlando.
Eagle Creek - Quilt is based on photographs taken from a hike at Eagle Creek in Oregon. I made it while taking Joan Colvin's class "The Nature of Design."
When I was a young boy - This is my husband when he was 3 years old on his tricycle.
I designed pieced and quilted the quilt
It is his birthday present.
Flowers in the garden - This is a king sized quilt I made for my middle daughter for Christmas 2006. She loves blue and yellow! I adapted the pattern from the May 206 edition of 'The Quilter Magazine'. I doubled the size of the blocks and used just blue and yellow for the flowers.
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