Remember Albuquerque - We visited the Inernational Hot Air Balloon Festival in Albuquerque in October 2005. I changed the border slightly due to my flying geese not coming out the proper size.

Horse Looking Ahead - This one inspired from another photo of a mare looking over her shoulder. She had very feminine features for this breed.

Serene - This was my first atempt at dying with resists. This resist has a gold color in it. I also learned that you can wash most of the color out if you don’t poperly set the dye. However, I really like the effect it gave in the end. I also did extra satin stitching in the mane to add texture.

Standing Tall - This quilt was done as a surprise for someone that has been a huge influence in my life with her zest and spunk. Her love of horses has obviously effected me as well. I played around with fusible applique with this piece and turned around and heavily quilted it with further embellishments of yarn for mane and tail.

Painted Dreams - Inspired by a photo of mine. This image has been painted with hand dyes and further embellished with yarn in the mane.

Gypsy Fire - Inspiration was taken from my photos of a herd of draft horses. This one stood out to me with the way her neck was so graceful as she looked on. The piece is painted with handdyes and embellished with yarn in her mane. My boys helped me paint the fire like background. That part was my favorite for sentimental reasons.

Terri's Quilt - My best friend/sister/sister-in-law and teacher has been fighting cancer for a year now. This quilt was a way to give her a piece of my heart and from many others. The process of fighting cancer can be cold and here was something she could wrap herself in and be surrounded with love and hope. The image was taken from a photo of her daughters and Terri under a tree. We had everyone hold the quilt and send the most positive message into the quilt. Then we got all the young kids and had the quilt drape on top of them and they screamed as loud as they could (outside of course). We love you Terri. She has recently lost her battle to cancer. We will miss her deeply.

Kaffe Sampler - Really a fun quilt to make. There are 40 different blocks - each repeated 4 times. The symmetry is what makes this quilt. Not your classic sampler quilt.

Patriotic Diamond Links - Designed by Dorothy Young

Clowning Around - Using Carol's beautiful design, these fish were placed on a pieced background using Karla Alexander's "Stack a New Deck" technique.

Dancing in the Dark - Journal Quilt using Lumiere paints, , hand made sponge stamp and beaded.

Hocus Pocus - This baby version of my pattern was made almost entirely of "found" fabric on salesman's sample headers. Nancy tested my pattern directions during a week of intense sewing at her new house!

Square Pair - Miniatures aren't usually my thing, but I love the civil war era reproduction fabrics, so chose a group of small-scale prints for these.

Hocus Pocus - I encounter so many quilters who don't know what to take on after their first project. This is perfect! I included many little tips in the directions to make this a learning experience.

Chill Pill - I wanted to start a pattern with a very simple design to make use of the influx of 5" charm square packs. This design is all about the fabrics. Good for beginners.

To Teach and To Learn - Embroidered Sunbonnet Sue characters representing each month of the year surrounding a version of the "days in a month" poem. Constructed as a learning project for software and embroidery features of Bernina 630.

Christmas Snow - I fell in love with Peppermint Pines, but unfortunately neither of the local shops carried the fabric. I turned to Snow Show teal collection by Benartex. Love it!