Experimentation with confetti quilts yielded the four seasons.  This is summer.

Inspired by a painting by Ted CoConis (with his permission), this wall hanging depicts the magnificent egrets that inhabit Florida wetlands.

Techniques used are raw edge applique, 3 D applique, trapunto, thread painting and free motion quilting.

Hand applique.  Machine Quilted by Beverly Jones

Wall quilt from a Linda Ballard class.

Sashiko wall hanging from a class

2-Color applique quilt

Hawaiian applique quilt made 2017

Feel the red glow of the sunshine!   The New York Beauty quilt block is so stunning!  After taking a class with Peggy Martin in 2014 called Quick Strip Paper Piecing, I decided that I was up to the challenge of making a quilt using the New York Beauty.  As a beginner at that time, this was my first attempt at foundation paper piecing!

I designed this quilt as our guild's raffle quilt.  Over 40 members worked on it.  The tasks included applique, paper piecing and using freezer paper to construct the center star.  We asked that whomever did the applique use any method they chose to prepare the applique, but that they do the actual appliqueing by hand.  It was a wonderful group adventure and all of those who worked on it felt wonderful as it was accepted into Paducah.  The colors were driven by my co-chair who said she didn't care, but want there to be teal in it.  Most of the fabrics are Jinny Beyer fabrics and were so fun to choose.  We also created a pattern and sold that as an addition.  The whole adventure was fun and a great success.

This is a raw edge Applique quilt.  There are a number of hidden plants and animals in the quilting.

I made this quilt in celebration of Canada's 150 birthday.  Our local newspaper, The Expositor, held a 150 logo contest.  The winner was Wes Newburn with his 9 bladed maple leaf.  Each blade is an outline map of Manitoulin Island where I live. I used this logo for the centre of my quilt (with permission).  The Bear Paw border depicts the vast wilderness.  Hand quilted.

This is the first quilt I've made sine my husband passed away in April.  It is made from a layer cake.  When I was matching the top of the hearts, there were 7 fabrics that did not have a mate... what to do.... so I matched the colours.  As it turned out, there are 7 souls missing my husband....2 sons, 3 grandsons, muse, and our Westin, Molly.  Guess the quilt was just meant to be.  I made this as quilt.as.you.go and quilted it on my Elna Quilters Dream.... looks great on my bed.

Sedona star

This little wall-hanging is made of 6" paper-pieced blocks designed by Jennifer Ofenstein at Sewhooked.com.  

I decided to do the Sedona Star quilt as a challenge to myself to pick my own colors, embellishments and then experiment with techniques I had learned on TQS. I used Razzle Dazzle in the bobbin to highlight different parts of the quilt, Machine Embroidery on the appliqued blocks, overstitched some quilting with Glitter thread to make it show up more, used pipping on the binding, and them added over 4000 crystals to make it shimmer. It took me almost 2 years to complete and I had so much fun expanding my skills. Getting Margaret Solomon Gunn to quilt it was the icing on the cake. I just love the way it turned out!

The third in a series about polo horses.  The photograph was of an Aiken SC player. Using photoshop cropped heavily and placed horse and player slightly out of the picture on the right and the ball to the left.  Also changed colors and shapes of landscape and tents.  Quilted using 100 weight thread to create a more subtle quilting line on the wool batting.