Mama's garden - My mom loved her garden and after she passed away I used some of her headscarves in this quilt. The yellow and bright pink roses on the left bottom side are the scarves.

Come to the Garden - My inspiration was the old gospel song “In The Garden”. The quilting includes five crosses, leafy sprays, and flower vines.

She will dance - Made for my newborn niece. I was looking for a pattern to use with the batik dancer blocks. The original used florals. I think it worked very well with batiks.

Love is all Around - This quilt involved the use of paper piecing. This is a scrappy quilt for which a I chose reds, greens, purples and gold tones, giving it a rich look.

Basket of Blooms - A large medallian quilt made using piecing and applique. This quilt taught me the value of measuring accurately and the consequences of piecing lots of triangles. It had to be taken apart and extra borders added to cater for the stretching that occured.

Patricia's Puzzle - An error in following the pattern led to some blocks being the revers of others in this quilt but I was happy with the finished product.

Summer at the Beach - Made completely using half-square triangles in the colours of yellow, blue and purple and simply stipple quilted.

Its a Crazy World - This range of Jan Mullen fabrics begged to be made into a quilt with a twist. A log cabin block was adapted so it was pieced off-kilter for interest. The pieced borders were also made in random sizes.

Hannah Rose - This portrait was based on a photo of my neice when she was just 3. It is done using raw edge applique fused onto the background fabric and enhanced with thread work. This was completed in a workshop with Pam Holland.

Oriental Fans - I saw the original photo in a quilting book & made an adaptation of it with silk & cotton fabrics from Japan. The fans are appliquéd on to a piece of silk Kimono in deep maroon fabric. In the top corner are two blue enamel brooches that were owned by my grandmother. I had it framed. Cheers Glenda

Tropical Colours - Learning to play with quilt as you go blocks.

Jon's Dragon - Dragon’s wings & under-belly are made from very heavily tight woven silk obi fabric, body from a lyric’s fabric; & he has been appliquéd on to Black satin. Then finally framed.

My Calico Garden - I first saw a photo of the original Calico Garden quilt when I started appliqué work in PNG in 1994 & thought one day I want to make that quilt & I will be happy. It has taken me 15 years to get there????? Some of the blocks are original & some are mine. Boarder is my design which is not finished yet. I have used coloured 9 blocks instead of white & colour; & used black in the boarders. My blocks are 6inches instead of the original 3inchs. Cheers Glenda

Passion - I was given a beautiful silk crepe scarf with a drawing of a Japanese lady wearing a full formal Kimono; I kept it in its original wrapping for some thing special. When we moved to the tropics we had this amazing red tropical passion flower (6inches across)in our garden; it reminded me of the beautiful red scarf, End result was this quilt. Each hexagon is quilted as you go; so I made all these hexagons then put them together making 6 red flowers to resemble the passion flower & surrounded the flowers around the Japanese’s lady which is in the centre top; adding dark hexagons to define the lady & flowers. Cheers Glenda

Rainforst to the sea - A paper pieced Group challenge in PNG called rain-forest to the sea. We could not use the same piece of fabric twice except in the boarder. This was quite a challenge as there were no fabric shops in PNG!!!! Shape was either clam-shell, square, triangle or diamond & no bigger than 2inches. Size of finished quilt was to be no smaller than 3/4 of a meter & no bigger than 1 1/2 meters.

PNG tribal man 1997 - This was a group challenge & the challenge was some thing typical PNG. I made a PNG northen coastal man in his tridiational national costume. Made from cotton & snake skin!!!!! It is in the shape of a PNG Shield which is about 1/2 meter long.

Stars & Stepping Stones - I made this quilt based on a really "ugly" piece of Kings Road Fabric that Susan Smith the owner of the Quilt Gallery in Augusta, Georgia said we would never be able to sell (I was working there at the time.) We sold 3 more bolts of it and I taught a class on how to make it several times, selling lots of Marsha's book as well. The "ugly" piece was the orange with the turqouise and blue vase pattern which makes up the setting triangles.

Tea Towel Quilt - My "Granny" died in 1983 and these blocks were made from tea towels that she embroidered probably in the 50's and were used till I saved them from being thrown away. I cut out the least worn parts and sashed them with 30's reproduction fabrics and gave the quilt to my oldest Grand daughter when she was born in 1999 and I had made her crib quilt and accessories out of 30's fabrics also. The quilt still hangs in her room although the other 30's things are long gone.