Sail Away - Guild Challenge Quilt. Started with center block, then each month challenge was to add border with specific requirement...triangle, stripe, square, paper piecing. Quilt evolved as we went on. I added two plain fabric borders to give some separation. This project was early in my quilting career, and was a great learning experience.

The Leopard Sleeps Tonight - Guild Challenge. The challenge fabric is the leopard. This is my first attempt at original design. The zebras were cut from a batik. They reminded me of ghost zebras, and the idea was born.

Somerset 9th Hole - I made this quilt using golf fabrics for my son because he has loved to watch golf on tv since he was a baby.

The Accidental Quilt - I started to sort color scraps into plastic bags.. I remembered about this pattern and somehow found myself sewing.. I found it hard not to want to keep the blocks squared at each level. This went fast and was fun to see the outcome.

Macaroni Necklace - My sister and I worked long distance on this quilt for our parents' 40th anniversary. It is full of mistakes, but the parents HAVE to use it - thus the name.

50th Birthday Quilt - For my birthday, many friends gave me 1/4 yard of fabric. I added additional fabrics and designed this quilt which I love as I can look at each piece, remembering family and friends.

Mom's Quilt - This is a queen size memory quilt made from my Mom's fabric stash and clothes. It was a bear to piece and quilt on my small sewing machine, so it took me about 2 years before I finally finished it. !

Pinwheels and Posies - New block of the month quilt at www.applewoodfarmquilts.com

My Happy Place - I made this for a niece. I called it My Happy Place since this was my first out of the box experience and I enjoyed every minute of it. Using those bright fabrics was a total change for me. Since that quilt, I've continued my quilting journey with brights as well as the more traditional fabrics.

It has no name - The blocks for this quilt were made by the ladies in our guild birthday block group in 2005. I finally put them all together in 2007. I decided to donate it to the church where the guild meets to be used in an auction as a fund raiser.

Northern Star Quilt

Batik Flower Quilt - My friend and I each used this motif and made similar quilts.

Circles - I love batiks and had fun putting them together in this small quilt.

Galaxies of the Universe - My first Stack and Whack quilt, using Mardi Gras novelty fabric. I used Ricky's piped binding technique for the binding. WooHoo! I like that! Thanks Ricky.

Old venerable one - Contour drawing, machine quilted with rubber stamped lettering

Liturgical Space

Lady Lily's Banner - Fused and hand appliqued stain glass technique for use outside as a medevil re-enactment banner.

A Day at the beach - Photos printed on fabric memory quilt. Machine pieced and machine quilted. Border fabric printed from a photo of clam shells found on a rock at Canon Beach, OR.