Summer Garden

Another Crack in the wall - This quilt is inspired by the abstract painting of the Belgium painter Paul Van Hoeydonck.

Bunch O'Squares - After receiving both 3" and 4" squares as a gift from my daughter, I wanted to try using both in the same quilt. It's my favorite quilt to snuggle under.

Baby Dreams - This is a pieced quilt using fabric and pattern in Quilt Maker Magazine May/June '08 Issue: 121. The kit is available for a limited time from Ladyfingers Sewing Studio. I made this quilt as a shower gift to a friend whose baby is due Nov. 27th. I didn't get the pattern with the fabric and duh! didn't think to go to quiltmaker site before I cut..oops! so the quilt had to be fudged a bit, but overall I'm quite pleased with the outcome.

Working Women - East Africa week in Ailsa Craig Ontario - 21 quilters from E Africa three teachers 180 quilts on display ... I took the Working Women applique workshop

Garden of Giving - We had a quilt retreat at our church, and every woman who attended contributed a square. Some brought other projects to work on, but many were first time quilters who made a square as a beginning project from which to learn. We purchased brightly colored fabric and a white background, so each block would be individualized in style and pattern and yet tied to the whole in fabrics and colors. When it was over, my sister-in-law and I pieced it all together, added black border and binding and quilted it. Then we donated it back to the church as a fundraiser to help send a group to Ghana to build a school, and it earned over $500 for this worthy cause. It was a popular fundraiser because so many women in our congregation participated.

Card Trick for Jethro - Quilted sashiko-style using Perle. Borders added Quilt-as-you-Go. Motifs cut from border-print appliqued within the quilt to support Nursery genre. New owner born prematurely on 7th November, 2008

Fans All Around - I had this small piece of fan fabric and loved the bright colors on the black background. I figured out how to use the maximum amount of the fabric for borders and that determined the size of the quilt. I drew the fan pattern on EQ6 and paper pieced the blocks.

Mason's Dinosaurs - I'll be giving this quilt to my almost 3-year old great nephew for his birthday next month. He's TOTALLY into dinosaurs! Backing is flannel with dinosaurs all over it. I don't have any grandchildren yet so I'm really enjoying my sister's grandsons!

Sunshine and Diamond - This is a quilt my sister made. We picked out the fabrics together, I showed her how to make the quilt and the appliqued "diamonds." When she was finished, I machine quilted it for her.

Sea Turtles - A "good bye" gift. Amanda rehabilitates aquatic animals. Time would not allow me to make the entire pattern so I appliqued the turtles and machine quilted dolphins.

Wade's Wild Ponies - Baby gift

Oscar & Company - This quilt took me 12 months to make. A gift for a dear friend and co-worker.

My Tennesse Waltz - After my first quilt class in 1981, I tackled this machine-pieced and hand-quilted quilt. I tried to coordinate the colors to match one I found in a quilt book: Scrap Quilting. I was born in Nashville, TN and thought the Tennessee Waltz was appropriate for my first project! It took me 25 years - I obviously didn't work on it continuously - but when I was chairing my club's quilt show in 2006, I used that opportunity to finish the quilt so it could be in the show. I made it! I named the quilt "My Tennessee Waltz". It hangs on the wall in my quilt studio now.

Betty Boop - This was a t-shirt quilt that was commissioned using the customer's collection of Betty Boop shirts and fabrics.

Jazz Drummer - I worked on this quilt with two other quilters on a website that gave out a fractured quilt challenge. We were to find a picture that we could enlarge and then cut apart and send those parts to the other two quilters. When we got those sections back, we were to sew them together and then quilt them. I think I ended up finishing mine first as it was intended to be a graduation gift from high school for a grandson who had been a drummer for his high school band and jazz group. I got it done and he seemed to like it. I did one of a Harley motorcycle for another grandson that graduated.

Sunflowers - I was in a mood after taking a class by Quilt Designer Virginia Robertson to do something with bright colors. So, this is what I came up with. I wanted to just play around with ideas which is what Virginia was trying to get us to do. This was my second time making this quilt as I liked the design a lot. Both times they have sold with no problems. This first one ended up in Denver, though I never did learn who bought it. I did get word back that it's hanging on a dining room wall!

Hawaiin Fantasy I - I was given three muu-muus by a friend with a request to make something with them for her to remember her deceased mother. Well, I sat on the muu-muus for about six months before I got an inspiration. I'm not sure of the pieced background pattern, as it was just something I saw some place and sorta just remembered how to piece it. Then, I played around with the donated muu-muus and some went towards borders and others towards applique. Anyways, the lady holding the quilt is the happy owner, and I was honored to do it for her.