I love the colours in this quilt - looking at it makes me happy. It was quilted for me by TQS member Toni Martin (tannes) 

The quilt has twelve blocks, each based on a Japanese family crest that in turn is inspired by bamboo.  More than thirty years ago while travelling in Japan I purchased a book "The Elements of Japanese Design" by John W. Dower, published by John Weatherhill Inc. in 1971.  I have been thinking about making a quilt from some of the designs for many years.  I have been inspired by the work of Kitty and Sylvia Pippen and also Kamiko Sudo where some of the crests have been used, and used a few in an earlier quilt.  This quilt is my first with original designs adapted from the Dower book.  Applique is fused and edge stitched.

Christmas stocking I designed and entered into Nancy Zieman's Stocking Challenge.  Thread work was done on the fabric for the flowers and leaves.  Very hard to see in this picture.  The letters for Noel are Lame. 

Quilt made through online class with Libby Lehman posted on TQS, Loved Libby's technique, enthusiasm for her art and she was a wonderful teacher.

Quilt made in Denver Colorado with instructor M'liss Rae Hawley at Mc Calls Quilting Symposium

Quilt was made with a stacked method - fun simple and colours are meant to be very bright just like summer!
Easy to construct 

I am a snowman collector and when I saw this pattern I knew I had to make it!

This quilt is the result of a border's class given by Linda O'Sullivan at The Bernina Connection in Tallahassee.   I loved every border in her sample quilt - from the paper pieced birds to the little doors on the bottom row that reminded me of little Santa's elf doors.

"Fiesta 2" is a version of Fiesta 1, except I traded out the silks for cottons and a burlap backing.

Alphabeth Quilt

I made this table topper for my sister for Christmas. It was a kit that I got from Keepsake Quilting.

I just finished this as a Christmas present for my niece. It was a kit that I got from Keepsake Quilting. I really like the simplicity of the pattern.

This small wall quilt is based on a fragment of a photo I took out of my office window. The quilt is entirely machine pieced using methods of Ruth McDowell and Ruth Powers, and was designed and partially completed in a workshop at Empty Spools at Asilomar, CA in 2014. http://susieturn.blogspot.com/2014/11/asilomar-robins-final-chapter.html

Design of this quilt performed in the technique of tessellation.
During tessellation picture is divided into fragments, which completely fill plane without creating overlaps and gaps. The master of visual arts in the tessellation was MC Escher, the favorite of mathematicians. Creativity of Escher rendered significant influence on the quilts of great master quilting Jinny Beyer. She has created not for one quilt in this style, and even wrote a book about tessellation. I visited her master class and here you can see my result.
Quilt "Dancing Butterflies" consists of 1173 pieces of 139 fabrics.

This personalized and adapted quilt features myself and three friends, Jo, Judy, Judy, and Joan.  We are the four J's!  Using photographs, I made the characters reflect our personalities and features.  I made this one, that I own, and three others, so we all have one!

This quilt is an adaptation of Tumbling Cubes from Modern Basics, by Amy Ellis.

I was commissioned to make a log cabin quilt.  I was handed a pattern from a book but the size wasn't large enough.  I used the basic layout but increased the finished block size from 7 to 8 inches. I used my accuquilt go to cut my blocks and my new Bernina London 7 Bernette machine to sew it.  Once finished I put it on my frame and quilted it with my Tin Lizzie 18DLS machine.  I don't have robotics so everything was freehand or ruler work. I used a circle ruler for the feather wreath spines and chalked in registration lines and quitled the feathers freehand.  I used my ruler to do line work but the borders were all freehand.  I enjoyed making the quilt and learned alot.  I used Glide thread in the top and bobbin.  In the future I will use thread that matches the back for the back and different color on the front.  I've only been quilting/sewing for 2 years now and using the longarm for 1 year.

Amazing 8 made the decision to make this quilt at the Houston International Quilt Festival in 2012. As we sat around a table at the Embassy waiting for dinner one night, we discussed suggestions for a new quilt. We made the decision of the Aztec Calendar after discussing "the end of the world" and the Mayan Calendar. Cindy Neville found the line drawing by Thomas Filsinger. He granted permission to use the line drawing and also provided research that he had done. We are very thankful to Thomas!