Peacocks and Magpies - Quilt as you go reversible quilt. Peacock colored blocks with gold sashing and borders, purple cornerstones with gold machine embroidery. Freehand quilted by domestic machine. Black and White back.

Peacocks and Magpies - Quilt as you go reversible quilt. Peacock colored blocks with gold sashing and borders, purple cornerstones with gold machine embroidery. Freehand quilted by domestic machine. Black and White back.

Hugs and Kisses - Digitized Sue Garman's blocks to machine applique in the hoop. Added machine embroidery to embellish each block. Bernina 830.

Purple Cow - I wanted to make the purple cow quilt out of the book. It was so much fun.

American Rose - American Rose is adapted from the pattern "Patriotic Rose" by Janet Miller. I chose to eliminate some of the appliqued stars to leave more room for quilting.

Marriage, Life Lessons,Free Advice For My Daughter - These are my Life Lessons and free advice to my daughters in black and white about the positives and negatives on relationships with humor.

Under the Sea - I used Heidi Pridemore's pattern, but lengthened it quite a bit and added more seaweed and more colors to the fish.

Transport for Silas - I left out the train signs and tracks and some of the vehicles, then personalized the quilt by putting local Ridgecrest names on the individual police and city vehicles and make one space a parking place for my grandson.

Christina Lake - This quilt was a private commission to be given as a wedding gift. The client (friend of the bride) provided a photo of the bride's dock/boathouse/lake view and I created it in photo to fibre techniques. Hand dyed, hand painted cottons, fusible raw edge appliqué and machine quilting and thread play.

Nancy's Valentine - Free pattern on TQS by Ricky Tims

After The Fire - Self Portrait - This fibre art piece depicts the end of a journey through a challenging, successful, yet spirit crushing career as a female fire fighter.

Supernova - Paper pieced with over 2,500 pieces of fabric, 14 different black fabrics and lots and lots of hours. It took aproximately nine months to complete working several hours a day. It took three days just to cut out the fabric eight hours a day.

Butterfly Kisses - Used Accu-Quilt dies for the border and some of the flowers, then fussy-cut butterflies from various fabrics bought at JoAnn's.

Quilt of Valor - This quilt has strips of fabric in red, white, and blue, with most of the starts in red, surrounded by a silver fabric. The bunting design around the border is in blue and white.

Actually a pillow - After a class by Cindy Needham, I was struggling with how to use this block stencil of hers and finally did it with thread painting on a pillow form. She said it was a totally different use of her "logo" and really liked it.

Small Sawtooth Stars

Roses