Parisian Flowers - This quilt is an adaptation of the pattern “Jalousie” by Alethea Ballard. My friend Kelly bought the fabric in Paris and challenged me to use it in a quilt. It took me several years to find the right pattern. The center is quilted on an Innova long arm machine, while the border was quilted on my home machine.

The Quilting Bee in Greenwork - Purchased the pattern during the Shipshewana Quilt Fest 2012 during the shop hop. I belong to an on-line forum & 5 of us met that year at the festival. I free motioned quilted some of our forum names in the border. The embroidery thread is Princia #12.

Heavenly Farmer - I made this for my cousin who is getting married this summer, as a memory quilt for his dad, who passed away in August 2013 after a battle with brain cancer. The squares inside the blocks on this quilt are made from fabric from his dad’s (my uncle’s) shirts. The sashing also includes some of the shirt fabric, but also supplemented with blue and green fabrics. My uncle was an Iowa farmer throughout his whole life, and if you know anything about Iowa roads and agriculture, most of the roads and fields are laid out in one mile square grids, subsectioned off from there. I wanted to design and make a quilt from his work shirts to look like Iowa farm fields if you were looking down from heaven.

Autumn Splendor - The Fall season is my favorite time of the year...Plus I love landscape quilts. I bought this pattern Alpine Glow by Kathy McNeil to challenge myself...I learned to needle turn applique using the Piece o Cake video.. Highlighted the water and trees with fabric paint.. I was pleased how it all came together...