Summertime Fun - This is my Show & Tell submission for the Kool Kaleidoscope contest. I had so much fun making it -- hence the name "Summertime Fun". The back of the quilt is just as amazing as the front. Look at the next picture and you will be amazed by the wonderful quilting by my good friend Tim Juhl. We are both equally delighted on how it turned out. Tim is a music teacher at our local high school and as you can see he really has a special gift when it comes to longarm quilting.

Lakes & Land: Nature & Man - Created for the MN Quilt Show challenge in Duluth. It uses fused piecing in the lakes which are embellished with angelina and beaded. Along with wacky 9 patches for the land. The pine tree was fused and edged stitched then embellished. The northern lights in the sky are paper pieced (I found the pattern in a magazine- sorry but I can't find it, when I do I will note it here). The pieces were enlarged, flipped and rotated until they resembled the northern lights dancing instead of feathers then they were hand appliqued, quilted and finally embellished with iron on rhinestones.