Morgans Wedding Quilt - Made for my niece Morgan's wedding. She wanted a couch cuddle up quilt. I picked the fabrics in the colors she asked for and was very happy with the outcome. I made myself a lap quilt with the leftover fabrics :)

My Orchid

Happy Days - This was made for my granddaughter who is 8 years old and loves pink!

Glad Tidings - I changed the original pattern. All applique is needle turned. The kit was given to me by an ill friend. She saw two applique blocks before she passed away.

Jim's Quilt - When my husband was a little boy of about 5-6 he collected military service patches from men coming back from WW11, He asked them for their patches. When we were married in 1969 my mother-in-law gave me a shoe box full of these not so clean patches and said, "Now you can have these" I told my husband of three months, "Someday I will make you a quilt out of these." I didn't know how to quilt at that time. Some of these patches go back to the Civil Wr. One is hand made, from the China Burma campaign. The service star in the center of the quilts was my son Michael's idea, he was about 14 at the time. There is only one patch that we bought and that is the Dessert Storm Patch.

CloseUp of Quilt for Lucille - This is my first original design

Quilt for Lucille, Mother-in-Law - This is my first original design.

Twisted Rudy - My 10 year old granddaughter, loves Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer , so when I saw this pattern, I had to make the wall hanging for her. It gave me the chance to try out my Lil' Twister Ruler by Country Schoolhouse. This looks hard, but is actually fun and easy.

Bubblegum Parfait - I wanted my quilt to have spaces to highlight my long arm quilting, so I took the blocks and placed them en pointe with cream muslin. I surrounded the muslin setting squares / triangles with piano key pieces to form a mock sashing. I surrounded the quilt center with 8" strips of the cream muslin and finished it with more piano keys. I used a quilting pattern called "Chrysanthemum" as the basis for the quilting.

Stars&Coins Forever

Beach Buddies - Several years ago I took a photograph of my husband and oldest granddaughter. I knew then that someday I would have to interpret it for an art quilt.

Stars For A New Day quilt top - After years of start and stops, I finished the top. Omitted the Flying Geese Border. Will start the quilting in January 2013.

Charlie - A friend asked me to make a quilt of her mother and dog with a picture of a boat in the background to represent her father. She sent me some photographs and I was able to reproduce the dog with the help of friends on the forum but have yet to get the skills to make her mother to the standard I would like. So the church window represents her mother (a vicar). Thank you my TQS friends for your encouragement.

DRAGONFIRE - Satin backgoud with trapuntp applique dragons.

Mixed Bouquet - I made this from scraps and leftovers for Christmas and then took a while to hand quilt it with gold metallic thread and put a sleeve on the back to make it a wall hanging.

More Common Beauty - I made this from beautiful old shirts my husband no longer used and new stuff from my stash. It is handquilted in Cotton perle in big stitches (1/4"long). and the binding is pieced from all the leftover bits.

Bouquets for a New Day - I started this quilt in 2008 when Sue Garman's pattern and instructions were first posted. I followed month by month faithfully. But good hand applique takes time. Work schedules, illnesses, then a move across the ocean when all my things were in storage for months got in the way. Once the blocks were finished, I sewed on the plain cream border suggest but was not satisfied. I just had to do more hand applique to complicate things. Then how to quilt it? The center was mostly done struggling with a domestic Bernina. Half way through I decided to buy an Innova long arm quilter. Now, four years later, I can finally say I am finished and satisfied. Four years was well worth it!