Night Skies - I made this quilt for my daughter and son-in-laws 20th Wedding Anniversary. The woman at the local quilt shop told me I could not make a king size quilt in one month, but I did. Of course, this is a very quick block. The quilt was made in strips and then sewn together with strips on the back to cover the seams. As a new quilter I really did not know what I was doing!

Americana Quilt Sampler - This is the first quilt I made. The design was from an Americana Sampler class I took at JoAnn in Temecula, CA in December 2003. I finished the quilt in March, 2004. This quilt is on my bed.

Van Buren County - My in-laws love all nature and especially items found in Van Buren County Iowa, so I wanted to make a quilt they could use to reflect on favorite things. For months, everytime I went in a shop I was looking for prints of items that reminded me of VB County. Each window depicts an item they would see in this area. I was lucky enough to find the back fabric of wildlife paw prints on clearance at Hancocks and discovered a quilting motif of cat-tails!

For my Sister In Law - I made 2 of these for Christmas gifts this year. Had soooo much fun buying the fabric for both on a Shop Hop in SE Iowa

First Art Quilt

Elegant Sue - My Mother made a "Dutch Doll" quilt out of my little dresses when I was a small child. I traced over the pattern in the quilt and used my own idea as to how to dress each girl. I used heart material for their skits and solids for the other accessories. I used machine embrodiery and other types of embellishments

Handkerchief Quilt - My inspiration for this quilt were the handkerchiefs that belonged to my Mother. I also collected a few other vintage handkerchiefs and let my mind to the rest. I loved making this quilt.

Circle Play - Square blocks are made up of two, three or four triangles with different flowered fabric. In the center is a circle with embroidery stitches around the edges. I made drapes with jabos with the dominant fabric.The main fabric is from Vienna Nights by Moda

Sister's Quilt - A sampler quilt from my quilt guild's challenge - to use the bright yellow in every one of these blocks.

African Equator - I made the quilt for an international contest at Aschaffenburg (Germany) that was held during September 28-30 2007. The theme for the contest was “Colors of Africa”. The ideas behind my design are the following: The colors of Africa are the colors of a continent that is divided in two by the equator. The colors are under the influence of this division. The face of Africa is also divided in two. I am very happy to tell you I won the first place prize with this quilt, a Bernina 440QE! More info about the contest is at: http://www.main-quiltfestival.de/Wettbewerb.79.0.html More pictures of the quilt can be seen here. http://www.xs4all.nl/~mecano/Project-Q/

Red Onion - A very colorful quilt and intriging to put together to get different designs and color combinations.

Nana's Original - This quilt has flowered fabrics in pastels and pink, green and yellow chenille. The very bottom has prairie points made from the flowered pastels.

Jaden's Christmas 2007 Quilt - Embroidered frogs are from Artistic Threadworks. Used EQ6 to draw the quilt, most quilting is stitch in the ditch but got a little braver this time using my new BSR to stipple quilt some of the colored squares.

Broken Dishes - Made for attaching quilting pins I have collected.

Twisted Bargello - This quilt was made as a Christmas gift for my mother-in-law.

The Sun Shines on All Shapes and Sizes - Hand painted and machine stitched

Fish and Jellyfish - I wanted to try out the Pebeo Setacolor paints and applique, and this is the design that came from that experiment.