Rain - This quilt was made for a guild challenge, "Water is more than H20." The idea to use a girl with an umbrella was my daughter's. The background was adapted from a picture I took of our barn and the area around it.
Spring Has Sprung - This quilt was hand pieced and machine quilted. I hand pieced it while we were traveling in our rv in the winter of 2010. I machine quilted it this past winter 2011.
Grandma's Serenity - I made the quilt for my grandmother. I picked taupe because that would best match her living room the teal blue was picked and really popped next to the taupe. This is my first ever quilt and I love it. It was quite a lesson on light, medium and dark.
Michael's Star Sampler - A star sampler, blocks chosen from Judy Martin's book, none of these were paper pieced. This is an extra long twin. I made it for my son and then he decided he wanted it longer, so I added the 2 extra rows of stars on each end.
Off Center Log Cabin - I challenged myself to use colors I didn't use, and then challenged to make the borders different than the middle. Some of this quilt was paper pieced.
Hanukah Star - Paper pieced design published in Quilters Newsletter made with paisleys, I changed it, using Hanukah Fabric, making it a "Star of David".
Storm of the Century - Designed with Electric Quilt 5, using the "storm at sea block". The Lighthouse pictures are purchased hand painted batiks. I designed the quilt around them.
Ugly Lovers Condo - This quilt was part of a challenge to use "ugly fabrics" with the quilters on the old Prodigy Quilting Board. 19 Quilters swapped 1/8 yd of fabric, so we all started with the same fabric. A piece of each person's fabric had to be used in the quilt.I used Quilt Pro to design my quilt. This quilt along with 14 other quilts traveled around the US for about a year. It also appeared in the American Quilter Magazine in summer 1997, Vol XIII. No 2 in an article about house quilts. It was paper pieced.
Cube Illusions - This quilt is the result of a class taken on line with Karen Combs at Quilt University.com I chose to piece the cubes in the quilt, instead of the applique method that was shown. Then decided to hang it upside down to get a different effect.
7 sisters - I hand pieced this quilt during our winter trip to Florida. I machine quilted it on a regular basic Phaff machine. I was inspired to make this quilt because my mother comes from a family of 10 children and there are 7 sisters!!! I have wanted to make it for several years, and finally decided this past winter to do it.
Island Sunset - I made this little wall hanging at the New Zealand Quilt Symposium in 2009. It was made in a class taught by Gloria Loughman. This pattern was her design for the class to make. Part of the class was painting the sky fabric with fabric paints. Gloria is a wonderful teacher that I recommend to everyone. I have posted this wall hanging as I have just watched Gloria on Episode 612, and wanted to share it with you all.
hunters delight - This quilt was hand and machine appliqued, machine and hand quilted on a domestic machine, applique was double stuffed and then stitiched, quilted with cotton batting, commercial fabric used. This quilt is made for my dentist(also my former employer) who is doing some pro bono work for me... a little thank you...
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