"Classic Hearts and Feathers" - This is an original hand drawn design by me, a whole cloth quilt, quilted with silk thread and wool batting, on my domestic sewing machine. Photos by Gregory Case Photography.

A Star for Keeping - Made to be raffled at a fund raiser for my cousin who is battling Cancer.

"Stream of Consciousness" - This is an art quilt , hand drawn and designed by me, it is all raw edge applique finished with a blanket stitch. It is based on a memory of mine from my childhood. This quilt means the world to me, as it is my very first completed art quilt, it was a semi finalist in the AQS Paducah Show in 2008. It was also accepted into the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza in 2007. One very unique thing about this quilt is the "face" that appears in the upper left mid center of the quilt, I did not plan the design that way, it just happened to be a combination of the fabric pattern and the quilting , and I did not notice it until the quilt was completed! But it appears that the "night sky" is a female looking down on the emerging butterfly...pretty cool! Photography by Gregory Case Photography.

Starrie Night Mystery - I love a mystery and when my local quilt store was promoting this pattern with a fabric line, I had to have the mystery part. I choose fabric from my stash. The quilt store ladies really liked my fabric choices. I puffed up a bit and felt proud. This is one of my first quilts.

Asian Waters - A stash buster project inspired by the fabric used for the border and backing.

Visions of Hoi An - This quilt was made to go with two pictures we purchased in Hoi An, Vietnam.

Passage to the Right Side - This was from quilting under the Tuscan sun with Esterita Austin. It uses Misty Fuse to "paint" the picture with the fabric. The piece was then highlighted with acrylics - my first experience with painting. Quilting is almost finished and then off to the owner, my niece.

Shell Trapunto - This was my first attempt at machine trapunto. I constructed it while taking an online class at Quilt University called "More Machine Quilting." The center motif is called Seashells and is from Karen McTavish's book, "The Secrets of Elemental Quilting". I then did my own version of McTavishing around the padded trapunto using my domestic sewing machine..

Asian Fall - This quilt is the result of a week with Carol Taylor at a Hudson Valley Arts course. It is a sampler of the many techniques she taught during the week. My challenge was to do the sampler using all prints when most of the class chose solids or hand dyes for their work. It is in the stack of UFO's waiting for my quilting.

October ends with Halloween - This was a calendar challenge and I selected October. Fabrics were left over from a bargello quilt made in 1995.

Ripless Paper Piecing - Thsi quilt was constructed in an online class at Quilt University called "Ripless Paper Piecing." We used freezer paper templates and did not sew through the paper. I used 3 or 4 freezer paper templates to construct my 20 blocks. All of the facbric is from my stash and most of it was either painted or dyed by myself. I quilted this myself using my HandiQuilter 16.

Water Dreams - This quilt was part of a quilt challenge to represent one of the 4 elements. This was my interpretation of water.

Bear with a Flair - I saw this bear at a quilt show and bought the pattern. Then I changed all the colors and designed the rest of the quilt. I made everything by hand except the piping.

Rackham Details - This center motif in this quilt is a stone carving over the front doors of the Rackham Building on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. My husband photographed it, and I used an oversized copy machine to print the photo to size. I traced the outline of the carving, and then quilted it using silk threads. The fabrics in the quilt are hand-dyed cotton sateen from Jeanette Viviano. The colors are my version of UM's maize and blue. My quilting patterns were inspired by the work of Diane Gaudynski. The quilt was a gift for the Dean of the Rackham Graduate School.

Susan's Silks - Quilt was made based on the silk upholstry fabric from a friend, Susan, which is used in the border and center square. Other silks are from market in Viet Nam. Also used commercial batiks, asian prints and hand dyed fabrics. Needs to have the border finished.

Fall in the Mountains

Flower Basket - This quilt was started in a class. It was great fun seeing it come together.

JAN BOM - This is block 2, the first one was too stretchy –Margo suggested better spray starch and I used 1 cup starch to 1 cup water, write if you want quilting recipe for making your own starch. The block is now 22 ½ square and perfect. I am not sure if I should trim because I am not sure about the floater strips and if I do not trim, then will the next row of 4 patches be off?