crazy cats - quilt based on my original drawings adapted to machine applique

my kaleidoscope

Moonshine - Moonshine is a portrait quilt of my Bernese Mountain Dog, Moonshine. I designed the quilt from a picture of I took of her.

Peyton's quilt - Commissioned T-shirt quilt made with no less than 58 shirts. He only wanted to use T-shirt and didn't want any cotton fabric mixed in the quilt top....I said 'whaaa?". But then I figured out how to sew it all together, shirt-to-shirt, without using any stabilizer and it came out great. This was also my first time on a long-arm machine.

à la Ton Schulten - This quilt is inspired by a painting of the dutch artist Ton Schulten. His paintings are with a lot of bright colors, a little abstract, but still you see a landscape. I made my own version of this painting and used some hand dye fabrics and quilted a lot. It was a lot of fun to make this quilt.

I'm a Hopeless Romantic - I made this quilt using some of the blocks from Aie Rossman book "Affairs of the Heart". Hand stitched button hole applique using embroidery floss. I designed the embroidery on the outside border, to match the embroidery on the blocks. Most blocks were stitched as I watched my son at his archery club.

Stars

Flower - This is an original design created after going to my first class. It is hand applique, machine pieced and quilted.

Spring is here! - Green and floral print blocks with beads and opaque sequin leaves. It is quilted with leaves.

Patience is a Virtue

Paul McCartney - This quilt is computer generated using Mosaic Quilted Photography program purchased from Tammi Bowser. The picture was published in the newspaper as an advertisement. It is for myself and is not for sale.

Rose of Sharon Winning Block - Contest winner.

Ancient Garden

Blue Birds Two - After watching Pat Holly on this site, I purchased her book "Stitched Raw Edged Applique. This is a quilt from that book. It was fun, although I had to modify it as I didn't fully read the instructions.

ZAKURKERIA - Yorkshire terrier destrozando un cojin, aplicación cosida y acolchada a la vez con acolchado libre, acolchado de penachos y meandros en cuadro central. Acolchado con cenefa realizado con acolchado recto. Terminado el 01 de Agosto de 2010 en Santurtzi (BIZKAIA) SPAIN. Regalo a una gran amiga. El patrón de la aplicación es una variación de "bust the rescued Puppy" realizado por Margaret Huynh: http://free-quilt-patterns.net/applique/BustheRescuedPuppy.html

Grace's Flower Garden - Given as a birth present to Grace. Made the center block in a class in 2008 using MaryLou Weidman's Flower Power book as a guide. Found it really fun and freeing to not use traditional pattern methods. Lots of machine quilting in top with Masterpiece thread. Finished July 2010.

Bear Paw Applique Wonder - This is my first quilt made for my mother in law (of one year at the time). She liked bright colours. I made this quilt in 1973 to 1975 for their 25th wedding anniversary--I was 21 when I started it. Not knowing anything about quilting, I bought a magazine. Thinking back, I am sure it must have been a pieced quilt, but at the time, I thought I should be able to do it by hand, on my way to work on the bus. I also wanted to make it out of clothing and things she would remember, and apparently fibre content was not a consideration for me.

Lone Star - I attended a workshop at the Electric Needle in New Westminster for quilting instruction.