The Fairies At The Bottom Of My Garden - I have had a fondness for fairies since I was a little girl, when my Grandmother, who lived in England, sent me a book on Fairies for Christmas.

A Little Bit More...About Bears - I love teddybears and I love hand applique so this was a perfect fit!

Wizard of Oz - My brother loves old movies and it was the 70th anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz." I bought the material and then designed the border and blocks to fit the pictures. It was great fun to do.

House and Garden - This quilt was completed during a yearlong Thimbleberries Club in Springfield, MO. It was a lot of fun and I had it professionally quilted by Quiltin' Bill who does marvelous work!!

Starred and Feathered - Feathered star surrounded with scrappy diamonds. Borders are preshrunk cotton after being quillted with rayon and Sulky Holoshimmer over flannel backing. Free motion quilted using conventional sewing machine.

For Marius

Peppermint Beauty

Rosa Hollander

Blowing Bubbles - This quilt made for very good friends, who on their 3rd try, finally had a boy! I had a lot of fun free-hand long-arm quilting this quilt, inspired by Patsy Thompson.

Peppers - I wanted to try using a photo, printed on fabric, and our guild had a color challenge...so this quilt is the result. The photo was a terrific range of greens of many different peppers from my garden...my printer chose to print in very DIFFERENT shades-mostly Yellow! Well - it still looks fine. I also tried Mctavishing in the quilting (I was lucky enough to be able to attend a wonderful lecture given by Karen M.) and that was a success! I first tried freemotion quilting about 2 years ago - it was a disaster! I have since tried on and off...taken workshops, watched lots of videos, read many books...and with practice-I am finally seeing some improvement in my quilting! I'm very happy with the results.

Wedding Quilt - I had some 9 patch blocks (Old), and an old silk shirt, several new fabrics, both blue and others...anyway - remembering the *something borrowed, something new, something blue...whatever...* don't remember the rhyme. My son (1st of 7 children to be wed!) recently got married, the new daughter in law loves yellow, the 9 patch represented my son's family of 9, the design placed the new couple in the *center* (red nine patch) of a radiating family... anyway, It is my attempt at a wedding quilt :-)

A Little Piece Of Home - I started with a fat quarter bundle of the Moda Migration fabric, purchased the This & That pattern, and added 2 additional rows to reach the desired size. I took all of the left over fabric from the bundle, and made the disappearing nine patch for the border. This is my favorite one so far.

Stars for a New Day

A Colorful Road - This is the first full size quilt I made, I had a jelly roll and added the white, because it was my first quilt I made the rows random widths and stripped solid borders in between, instead of getting frustrated with matching seams. I found a great tie dyed fabric that worked well with the colors for the border and backing fabric. I also made matching pillow shams and a bed skirt.

Raquel's birthday quilt - This is my fist quilt, small and simple for a little girl's birthday, a flannel rag quilt.

Terri's Birthday Quilt - T's in my friend Terri's favorite colors. Not my favorite colors, but I did have all these fabrics in my stash. This was the first quilt my friends saw - up to this poiint they knew I quilted, but had never seen any of my work. The quilt was made with all my choices - Terri had no input into it at all. This has become a favorite thing for me to do, since my quilts tell my friends of my love for them.

Meyers 25th Anniversary Quilt - This was made as a surprise gift for my neighbor's parents as they celebrated their 25th anniverary. When I asked what colors to use - my neigbor said her mom was colorblind, so it didn't matter much. I came up with the idea of using photos on fabric to make a memory quilt - thinking my neighbor would give me maybe a dozen to work with, instead, I got a whole boxful to work with.... These were sent off to Soft Fabric Photos and they cropped, scanned and printed the pictures for me. Through a series of events, my quilt was the cover quilt of "Quilt It for Keepsakes" in early 2008.