Cabin in the woods - This was a Block of the Month quilt. It was made with Diawabu Japanese fabic. The block were paper pieced, and the borders were pieced. The fabric makes the quilt. Each block is 8 in. square. it took 14 months to make. I love this quilt.

Homestead Instead - Grew out of a desire to make something myself, with no 'pattern', to use my stash, and to try out the Amish look, which I love. Made for son and DIL for 8th anniversary.

Daintree Dalliance - Using sixty degree triangle for the background, the Ulysses butterfly is a collage of fabrics under black tulle. The butterfly is not quite true to the real butterfly, because they have large black areas at the tops of each wing. Artistic licence used for the wingsin the quilt. Part of an exhibition of quilts inspired by my late husband's photos of Cape York Peninsular, Queensland, Australia.

Hello Dolly - quilted doll - This is my entry into the Quilter's Home Magazine Mojo Doll Challenge - she isn't a quilt, but she is quilted, so I decided to enter her photo here. She is currently having her picture taken for the magazine, which I believe will come out later this year. They liked all of the entries into the challenge, and have decided to include all the dolls in the magazine. Fun!

Making Waves - I'm posting my quilt again, because it is currently entered in the McCall's Quilt Design Star Contest. It is the second entry, in their list, titled "Making Waves" and it can be viewed here: http://ck.upickem.net/engine/Details.aspx?contestid=17717&pagetype=VOTING&SubmissionID=3904590 You can vote for it if you like, and check out all of the other wonderful entries there, as well. I made this quilt for the Quilt Show "Helping Hands" Challenge. I enjoyed working with the beautiful fabrics hand dyed by the women in Mali. It was a great challenge, the orange fabric also warmed up my cold studio! My quilt was accepted in the 2010 MQX East Show in Providence, Rhode Island and was on display from April 15 - April 17, 2010, in the miniatures category.

Swan Fantasy - This was my entry in the Quilting Arts/Bernina Stitch This On-line Challenge. I entered my quilt in June of 2010. The challenge was to create a quilt, with lots of stitching, based on a photograph of a swan with a nest of eggs. I have been making smaller projects this year, in order to try new techniques and practice my machine quilting. I had fun making this, I used fabrics I had hand-painted (one of the new techniques I am trying), the heart, circle and squares were cut out using my Go Fabric cutter. I used raw edge applique, and had fun, I used Roxanne's Glue Baste-it to glue down the fabric pieces to the cotton batting, and secured them with decorative stitching, and free motion machine quilting. The swan was created separately on a piece of batting, then cut out and sewn to the background of squares and hand painted fabric - this gave the 3-d look of trapunto. I drew my swan from the photo, then traced a pattern from the drawing on to Golden Quilting tracing paper. The idea for the headdress on the swan just popped into my head.

Kaleidoscope #3 - Third Kaleidoscope I've made and I plan on making another one! Based the colors on the butterfly border fabric.

Natsilane - I started this quilt in June 2009 while at retreat with Ricky Tims in LaVeta, CO. I finished my quilt May 2010 and entered it in MQS in Overland Park, KS. As you read this my quilt in on the way to Birmingham, England to hang in the Twisted Threads Show that is in August 2010. Making my quilt was such a joy and a great learning process. Natsilane is a rhapsody style quilt...

Too Hot - I had the idea of using all hot colors and embellishments to make a small art quilt of the sun, to celebrate the beginning of summer in June. As I prefer NOT to have to measure or print out paper foundations, I chose to try my hand at putting together the strips without, and I love the result.

Star Brite - No actual block design, quilt design comes together when complete and quilted. Used some rayon and some metallic threads for quilting.

Sugar Biscuits - Needed to make some baby quilts quickly, so thought I would try some pre-printed Blocks and fabric from the Sugar Biscuit Collection by Wilmington Prints. I saw this quilt in the Easy Quilts Magazine and just fell in love with it. Still has enough piecing in it to satisfy my need to make quilts, but by using the printed blocks it IS quick and easy. Also can assemble the blocks how you find pleasing. The fabrics also come in the pink colorway.

Butterflies are free - Mourning quilt for my daughter Veronica. Butterflies are the symbol of new life, so she is flying free in her new life.

Bohemian garden - Purchased BOM pattern- didn't care for 5 of the 9 blocks so made up/adapted my own. Fabrics are suede-look cottons from Cherrywood Fabrics.

dipped in chocolate - This quilt had thousand of pices and oh so much fun. I was thrilled the way it turned out.

Kaleidoscope - This is a mystery quilt that I designed for the North Pittsburgh Quilt guild. www.npqg.com. There were 6 shown in the 2010 quilt show.

Space Invasion - I was collecting space fabric, when I saw these creatures I knew I had the quilt made. They are so cute.

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