Pick Up Sticks - Hand Dyed Fabrics ranging from red through to yellow spectrum offset by complimentary purple through to turquoise

New Beginnings - This quilt was made for my niece for a high school graduation gift, a new beginning. It made of 5 layers of fringed flannel using machine embroidery for quilting. The cat helped : )

Mason 50th Anniversary quilt - Poinsettias and Holly prints machine appliqued in a heart shape. Photos of the couple were printed on white muslin and trimmed to small ornaments to hang on the quilt to celebrate 50 years of marriage.

Brenda's Quilt - Brenda's son (26) passed away Sept2004 of cancer. I offered to make a T-shirt quilt. When I went to pick up the shirts - Brenda also added jackets, the first outfit he bought, favorite jeans, hats, his boy scout badges and sash etc! How could I refuse her! He was a huge Boston Red Sox Fan - check out the Red Sox Block.

Contrary Wife - I used Electric Quilt to design this for my quilting friend's son and wife, who had asked her if she could make them a long, narrow wall hanging to go over their dining room doorway. It has a French Country or Italian Country look. Hattie machine pieced it using my design and the directions printed out from EQ. Then she hand quilted it. It looks wonderful, and her son and his wife were very pleased with the results!

Beach House Nautical - A friend in Iowa, at a company where I was working at the time, commissioned this quilt. She wanted something with a nautical theme, and lots of blues. As I used to live in Houston and go to Galveston all the time in the summer, and friends had beach houses there. I love all things nautical, so was thrilled with the commission. Designed it using Electric Quilt (the version that was current in 2002-2003). I love using EQ, and have designed many quilts for friends, but have not published yet. I am building a stock of designs, and photograph all my finished projects, and enjoy the fun and friends that each project brings along the way -- and of course, love learning new techniques and am always trying to improve my skills.

Sunny Stars - Made for Tracey Brookshier’s UK/USA 2007 Challenge. Eight bright yellow reverse appliquéd stars blast through the teal butterfly fabric; 28 wt. Aurifil thread is blanket stitched to embellish and add further emphasis to the stars. Pink rickrack flowers with bead embellished centers add a playful note and re-enforce the inclusion of pink in the composition. Prairie Points along the quilt’s edge add a traditional finish.

Taylor

Katlin

Navarre Star

Mom's and My Challenge Quilts of 2006 - 3 fabrics are the same. The top one is Where's the Coffee and the bottom one is called Dorothy's Flowers because Dorothy came up with the idea for creating the challenge flowers.

Licorice Delight

Bunbury Red - In 2005 my online quilting buddy in Ohio urged me to join a quilt challenge in Australia entitled "Colour My World". The challenge fabrics were the black/whites. I didn't want to purchase more fabs, so dug into my stash of reds to create these attic window blocks. The design is my own. Size is approximately 26 inches square.

My First Sampler - Created for my first quilting class taught by Margie. I have not stopped quilting since!

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