Peachtree Picasso - I purchased the center panel from a fabric store when a Picasso exhibit was showing in Atlanta. I put it away for many years before finally designing a wall quilt with it.

Quilted Briefcase - I wanted to make a briefcase featuring this great Log Cabin variation. The original pattern was for a tote bag, so I increased the number of blocks. I also added my own applique design to the sides. The flowers are made using buttons. All of the fabrics are from my collection of Japanese fabrics.

Reindeer Paws - Christmas Quilt for 2010 - The reindeer blocks are from Piece 'O Cake, everything else is my original design. The applique is all needle turn. I just loved these reindeer.

Aunt Sally's Quilt - I started this quilt 2 years ago, and left it for many months until I was invited to my Great Aunt Sally's 100th Birthday party. I thought the quilt would make a great present, so finally finished it yesterday, in time for the party tomorrow !!. This was my first jelly roll quilt, using Moda fabrics. Now it's finished, I like it alot more, but know it will be going to a good home !

The times in our life

"Love Blooms" - I made this quilt for the Feeling Groovy "Big Love" challenge. It was nothing but fun, fun, fun! I enjoyed the challenge of using decorative stitches and having a deadline. Every step was fun from the making of the flowers to the selection of the binding. I used neon embroidery thread and decorative stitches on the quarter inch bias stems and around the "mod" flowers. I also used a satin stitch with neon thread to embellish my "big love". Thanks Ricky and Alex, I mean Joaquin and Mona!

Spring is coming - Pretty machine embroidered blocks in blue, yellow & green form the basis of this 4 block wall quilt or table topper. Embroidery design is a built-in design on the Janome 350E and Elna 8300. I used blue & yellow prints for the sashing, borders & binding. This is not a complicated pattern, just a simple project to cheer up the winter blues and look forward to the arrival of Spring. Quilted by machine and embellished with machine decorative stitching.

Wildflowers - This quilt is my adaptation of the Wildflowers Design CD and Quilt pattern by Smith Street Designs. The machine embroidery designs are all applique in the hoop. I embroidered the blocks and then put them together using my own arrangement - similar to, but not the same as, the pattern instructions. 100% cotton batik fabric was used throughout. I sewed leftover batik strips together and then cut them up & sewed them together again to form the rows of tiny blocks in the sashing/borders of some of the blocks. Most of the applique fabric was from one batik fat quarter: I used different sections of the multi-colour print. Machine quilted using decorative stitches on my sewing machine.

Sunflowers - I embroidered the Sunflowers on my embroidery machine (built-in design on the Janome 11000). The blocks were embroidered in the 8x8 inch hoop using random colours on hand and then each block was cut down after embroidery was complete. I collect the scrap strips left over from sashing and bindings on other projects: I used this scrap collection to do a form of crazypatch as the frame for each block. Each block was trimmed to the same size & sewn together. I added 2 borders before sandwiching and quilting. Most of the quilting was machine decorative stitches using the same varigated cotton thread throughout.

Maryanne's Compass - Fabric - Moda hand dye look. Wanted to use my embroidery machine for more than baby blankets and tshirts

PhatKats - Fun and easy fan block with a pieced background that's not applique nor curved piecing! Each cat came together quickly. Great for scraps!

Patriotic Jacob's Ladder - Red, white & blue color theme

Father Brunkan's Quilt - We made this quilt for our priest, Father Walter Brunkan, of St. Mary's Church in Greene. Each block represents a part his service to the parish and community.

Tuscan Countryside - Houses are from photos taken on trip to Italy. The sunflower & red floral fabrics I had in my stash dictated what would surround my houses. I originally wanted to create a water front quilt but, decided to use my floral fabrics which resulted in a country scene. Some textile paints were used for shading. Applique shapes are fused then stitched with monofilament thread.

Grandma's Baskits - Authors of the book = Marsha McCloskey & Sharon Evans Yenter. This Blended Quilt pattern was designed by Jackie Quinn. I substituted my Mom's hand embroidery for the "focus fabric" blocks in the original pattern. It was given to my niece, Patricia.

Indigo Stars - For my grandson, Dylan

Checkers - I used my stash of Cherry Wood fabrics. It really turned out nice. It belongs to my youngest grandson now. He's busy using it up...ha ha

You Go Cowgirl! - The images are enlarged, vintage post-cards transferred to fabric sheets. I used western theme fabrics to create the "frames" for the images. It was my first attempt at machine quilting so there are a few mistakes. I used mono filament thread....never again!