American Beauty

Christmas Stocking Quilt - I had fabric left over from making pieced stockings and made up a simple design. I added the shimmery gold fabric just to add to the shine and giltz of the season. I started this quilt in 2006 but finally got it quilted in 2008. I machine pieced and combined machine and hand quilting.

Purple Velvet - This is a Kaleidoscope Stack n Whack quilt using Bethany Reynolds techinique/books. I have called it Purple Velvet because up close it looks like velvet and everyone just wants to touch it.

Starlight Garden - This was a challenge quilt for a local quilt shop. The challenge required you to use Kathy Hall's fabrics - center panel and numerous other colors and prints in the challenge quilt. I started in the center and just kept adding boarders. This quilt is made of all FLANNEL! Quilting it on my domestic machine was a bit of a chore, but it came out great. Kathy Hall came to the challenge quilt show. It was a lot of fun. Currently, this quilt is on my bed. My husband and I love the weight of it, especially during a cold winter in upstate NY.

My Panda - This is my original design I drew, hand appliqued and hand quilted. Will post a picture in my personal pictures of close up.

French Quilt - I was commissioned to make this whole cloth quilt. I machine quilted it on my domestic machine. The toile top was purchased by my client in france. Client is loving this finished quilt and I am very proud!

Purple Passion - This quilt was made after I took a class from Nancy Eha. It was displayed in Houston at the Quilt Festival in 2002 and also one of the blocks was featured in Quilting Arts Magazine Issue #2.

Family Quilt - Almost crazy quilt made in the 1960's with all the family names embroidered on it.

Cathedral window variation - Completely handsewn using cotton muslin and hand dyed cotton. The "buttons" were made from hand dyed cotton over felt circles and hand appliqued.

Lily Pads - back - This is the back of Lily Pads.

Lily Pads - The wholecloth is sun dyed Langa Lapu from South Africa.

Nuevo Navajo and Seminole, Too - The idea for this quilt came from the book, "Simply Seminole, and was my first venture to "experiment".

Maggie's Choice Shop Hop 2008 - Our store's block for WWQSH 2008. I used 16 blocks to create this design

Color Rainbow - Rainbow colors cascading down

Christmas Wreath - This quilt took me two years to complete. My mother kept after me to finish it. Unfortunately I completed it after her death.

Sunflower Tablerunner - This is a hand painted, machine quilted tablerunner.

Christmas Convergence - My first attempt at making a convergence quilt design. I learned alot so I'm hoping my later efforts will be better.