Urban Rainbow - I enjoyed making this pattern so much that I made 3 of these. The only variation to the pattern was to add some pipping around the quilt using Susan Cleveland's technique.

Thank you Alex - To thank youth pastor at our church for his years of service and for helping bring so many kids to faith in Christ. For creating an atmosphere where kids can have a blast and get closer to the Lord. He is awesome and preaches great sermons that are memorable and easy to understand. Anyone would love this guy. We'll really miss him as he moves along.

Sheila's Feathered Star - I used feathered star blocks for the center. The swirly borders are inked and match the drapes that I also made to go in my guest room. The outer border is a modified New York beauty block. I designed the quilt in EQ. I quilted on my APQS Millennium.

PSST! (Psychedelic Sea Star Treasure) - I re-drafted the Sea Urchins pattern to make it larger (silly me, it would have been much faster to make it the size listed on the pattern, but I HAD to have it bigger...). Some fabrics were over-dyed to make them darker. The stars are all paper pieced, then set together in layers. It was quite a challenge, but I love a challenge! It was shown at the 2012 Shipshewana Quilt Festival and juried into the 2012 AQS Grand Rapids show.

Pumpkins! - I saw this quilt as a BOM at several shops as I traveled around the country but ended up purchasing just the pattern and used my stash (except for the sashing, which was purchased after I started). I finished it just in time to hang it up for Halloween - it still needs to be blocked so it hangs a little straighter but that will have to wait until I take it down after Thanksgiving!

Van Gogh's Blue Vase w/Flowers - My small art quilt group (The Van Go-Go Girls) had a challenge this year to make a small quilt (maximum size 80-inch perimeter) based on a Van Gogh painting. I did a variation of one of Van Gogh's Vase of Flowers. The background behind the flowers was confetti blue and yellow with a very pale yellow tulle to capture anything that would not stay fused down. The flowers and leaves are all 3-D, using two pieces of fabric fused with heavy duty fusible. The small blue flowers were each beaded in the center and then glued on. The daisy-like flowers have yo-yo centers with beaded stamens. The vase was hand-appliqued and did not lie well after quilting the background and was completely beaded in a free-form design, which only took 10 days to complete. I used Superior Thread's Bottom Line for the beading. The blue and yellow fabrics were all hand-dyed. The background and leaves were commerical fabrics and the tablecloth is Cherrywood.

My Fancy Lizards - After a class with Karen at our Thumb Butte Quilters, I manipulated the lizard on my computer and then digitized it for machine applique. The cactus are done with a fancy stitch from the sewing machine. Other embroidery by machine

Helm of Awe - My accountant requested this quilt. She feels that it will give her protection when she sleeps. The center symbol is the Helm of Awe. It has matching pillow shams.

Andy - This is a portrait quilt of Andy Witkin, late husband of my high school friend.

Day filled with apliqued peace - I was making a Dresden plate quilt a coworker sujested they would make cool flowers. So I started makeing a landscape quilt with Dresden plate flowers. It was very peaceful makeing this very organic quilt, it grew and formed a landscape as natural as a true landscape. Nothing is perfect but neither is natur but it is ver peaceful.

Big Thicket - This quilt is one project I made from the Half Square Triangle Exchange from The Quilt Show. I loved the "Tree of Life" block and the pattern in Edyta Sitar's book, "Friendship Triangles," but I wanted the triangle border to go around all the edges of the quilt and adapted the pattern to accomplish that. Named it "Big Thicket" for that area in Texas where so many different trees grow.

spooky night - Quilter's Newsletter had a paper pieced pattern that i adapted by enlarging the pattern making the children different sizes. Added a tree and a moon and atmosphere. Not sure if I want to make it into a quilt or just have a block so it sits looking scary.

Fiesta 2 - I made this quilt after watching L. Lehman show during my Fall Break from school.

Flag - I used pretty brite colora

9 patch - 9 patch with three colora