Valentine Quilt for Bernadine - A Valentine Wall Quilt for my 94 1/2-year-old Mother. The Ruffled Roses center is embellished by adding parts of a crocheted antimacassar made by Bernadine's mother, Mona Thompson (1892-1992).
Alphabet Alchemy - I wanted to make an alphabet quilt using stitching as the alphabet. Each block was pieced, quilted, mounted on heavy pellon, then attached to the quilted background using tiny brads. Lots of embellishments and doo-dads! This is the one quilt I have made where, if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing!
Nouveau Quattro Alfabetico - This design was based on the classic art nouveau alphabet which I mirror imaged vertically and horizontally. It was my attempt at showing how letters can be used beautifully as a design element. It was machine appliqued, reverse appliqued, pieced and machine quilted. Lots of embellishments were used. (Love embellishments!) It is number 6 in my alphabet quilt series.
Alpha"baa"t Sampler - I had had the idea for this quilt for awhile, and when I saw the fabric with the printed lower case letters on it, I knew it was time to make it. It was my first attempt at curved piecing. This is the fifth quilt in my alphabet quilt series, (my plan is to make 26), which I am hoping to finish before I am 60!
Star Bright - I took a class from Margaret Miller at the Houston Quilt Festival (after watching her on The Quilt Show) and fell in love with Angleplay quilts. This is a slight variation of one of her patterns in her book "Stunning Angleplay Quilts". I am already starting on my second Angleplay quilt!
Edison Quilt #2 - In 1987 I took a class at Hobby Lobby. We were given an hand written, hand drawn pattern. 3 of the blocks were design by my daughters who were 8 and 10 at the time.
Thank you Camille - I was really taken by Camille Roskelly's show and fabrics, when I learned that I had a new grandbaby coming along I knew exactly what to do!
Fire Within - Our town had a very bad forest fire in 2000. My brother, Walt, and his wife were associated with the Park Service at the time. When I needed a kidney transplant he offered his. Unfortunately his kidney was not a match. As a thank you for his offer and a remembrance of the fire I made this quilt for him.
Mom's Quilt - Many years ago My mother, Stephanie Sydoriak, and I were in a quilt store which had many quilts hanging on the walls. I asked my mom which quilt she liked best. This quilt was her immediate response was this quit. I finally gave it to her for her 82nd birthday.
unnamed - When I started quilting I almost immediately started looking for a pattern for our bedroom quilt. When I saw this 2"x3" picture in a magazine I knew immediately that this was the quilt for me. When I was a miniaturist I was always making large things into small things. Now I was faced with turning a very small picture into a queen sized quilt. It took a while but it was finally accomplished. At the quilt store they said for a beginner you sure did pick a difficult quilt, you will never finish it. Well after six or seven years it was done.
Fawkes - Phoenix Rising - Fawkes is made from one gradiated fabric. I had been looking for a Phoenix pattern and when I saw this picture on the cover of Quilts Without Corners Encore...I couldn't resist.
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