Annette's Quilt - I found out my friend Annette had Breast cancer while I was at the Ricky Tim's Seminar in Asheville NC. At the seminar Ricky showed the convergence method. I bought the book, and made her quilt. She loves purple! Thanks Justin for your shoulder!

Mystery Quilt - I started this quilt in a Mystery Quilt workshop i took with members of my local Quilt Guild.

Stars and Stripes - Created for a quilt show silent auction (not for profit) of miniature quilts.

Old Fashion Christmas - I wanted to make some Christmas table top pieces where I could incorporate the machine embroidery designs and the various style stitching on my Bernina.

Meet the Beatles

We're Outta the Woods - Based on WIzard of Oz, design composition inspiration was posters of Alphonse Mucha and the 1930's movie, resulting in an almost cubist interpretation. I used my own cruder vesion of Joan Colvin's fabric collage technique for the trees and hand painted Dorothy and the corner figures. Also incorporates couched yarn, thread painting, confetti collage and machine applique. The background is semi-impressionistic/watercolor technique, using 1.5 inch finished size squares

Linda's Quilt (the back) - With thanks for the technique from the UnRuly Quilter, Tonya Ricucci's book "Word Play Quilts."

Linda's Quilt - A memory quilt, made with the fabric from Mark's 18 Hawaiian print shirts.

Santa Fe Sunset - This wall hanging measures 52x52. I used Eleanor Burns book Radiant Star Quilts for the pattern and technique. I auditioned different colorways in EQ7 to come up with the colors. I added embroidery with perl cotton and then filled in the spaces between the embroidery with sequins and beads. It really twinkles! Free motion quilting was done on my domestic machine.

Bars Medallion - This was one of my many early quilt making projects. It has appeared in several of the exhibits Mr. Eli Leon has curated on African American quilts.

"Cure Bliss" - On my journey to wellness through the arts, I created a personal art quilt I call "Cure Bliss". It is a fabric collage of "breast flowers", celebrating one year as a breast cancer survivor!

The Blushing Rose - My first design using a ship. All that rigging, argh! was worked in a whipped stem stitch. It took a bit of stitching, but it was worth every minute.

Abundance - I worked the majority of the roses and grapes using an off-block applique technique. Loved using all of the hand-dyed batiks on the market.

Texas Baltimore - A Baltimore pattern based on Texas wildflowers which bloom in the Spring. Created for a class taught in San Antonio, Texas. Love the three dimensional yellow roses.

Peacock Garden - This quilt was created for the Hoffman Challenge fabric in 1997. The quilt toured the world for a year and I was thrilled to be part of the Hoffman Collection. It is covered with silk ribbon peonies and flowers in the border. The body of the peacock was pieced using 1/4 inch graph paper, insane, I know!