Twas The Night Before Christmas - This quilt is the poem "The Night Before Christmas". It is all from a mouse's perspective. The designs are from The Embroidery Library and are quite enchanting. I made this quilt for my friend Eileen Jones; to be auctioned off at a Gala Fundraiser for her charity "The Gift Of Hearing", this charity provides cochlea implants for deaf children. The embroidery took 84 hours, there were 1,123,562 stitches in the embroidery alone, and I had to change the thread over 800 times. I used a Bernette Bernette 340 embroidery machine and a Bernina Aurora sewing machine. This was the first quilt I had made using embroidery. In retrospect, it probably could have looked a bit jazzier, but in real time you don't want to take away from the embroidery designs.

Laurel Burch Cat Quilt - The cats are all Laurel Burch embroidery designs. They are embroidered on 6" square pieces of fabric, then they have colorful borders attached. Then I free-motion quilted the entire quilt. I made it for my great friend Jhane Marello. I am fortunate to have met her 5 years ago, we are so close it is like having another sister. Last November we went out west to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah. We also visited quilt stores in Flagstaff and Sedona. Jhane fell in love with a quilt with cats on it and went on and on and on about how much she would pay me to make a quilt for her. Little did she know that I had already made this quilt for her and that it was all wrapped up and ready for her to take home with her when we ended our vacation. I got such a kick out of it :) How luck to have found such a good friend. Love you Jhaney

Sophie's Choice - Rag quilt made from flannel.

Emily #2 - This is a preprinted panel that I put a ruffle on.

Emily's Quilt #1

Wild Thing - This was the first quilt that I made. I used thick polyester batting and stiched in the ditch around the borders on all blocks. This was sent to my cousin in Texas to celebrate the birth of her first son. I hesitated in naming it "Wild Thing" because I didn't want to jinx her son but the colors just screamed out to me, no other name would have been fitting.

I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose.... - The title "I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind" is a line from a poem by Pablo Neruda

Otters in the Bay - This was a school auction quilt. My first graders drew small pictures of sealife for the borders. I designed the quilt using a lovely panel for the center.

Dear Jane - 225 patterns from the 1863 Jane Stickle quilt. Made from reproduction civil war fabrics.

Flowers - The patterns were collected over many years and when I had enough to make a king size quilt I started working on it.

Harvest Spice Quilt - BOM quilt through Quilter's Attic, Pine Bush, NY. Vibrant colors and new tecniques for standard blocks included. Mitered corners for the first time.

Sweet Sixteen-Pfaff Club 2007 - Quilt designed to teach maximize use of Pfaff sewing machine-stitches, feet, programs. Also, quilt as you go method learned. Class taken over a few months.

Christmas Log Cabin, or Not - I used Jo Morton fabric mixed with some others, but not Christmas. I mitered the corners and did my own quilting on this one. This is one of two. The other is for my sister who lives in a log cabin and loves it.

Programme of Events - Very enjoyable to make

Welcome Home Quilt - Six month class taken to learn new tecniques, such as, using templates, freezer paper, different borders, scraps. I also loved the quilt. I also learned patience.

Colour Run

Denim Kites - Wanted to make a denim quilt with a little more to it than just squares. Enlarged the pattern 200%. My daughters and I used yarn and pliers to quilt the ties. A perfect picnic quilt!

Galaxy - 4 paper-pieced 12" blocks as a result of an all day class taken with Carol Doak. Background is star-bursting pattern and reminded me of a galaxy. My air force husband worked on the C-5 Galaxy Cargo plane and this hung in his office.