Stars - This quilt was designed for my husband for his retirement of 20 years service in the Air Force.

My Flying Carpet - The challenge was to use two fabrics in tints, tones and shades in a set block. This was a class exercise. The challenge was to put together a pleasing arrangement of the blocks. A design wall was an absolute necessity for the process.

Underground Railroad - Photo of quilt with Pillow cases and throw pillows of same fabric--my kitty, Sumatte loves to sleep on it. I took a class for this quilt taught by Debbie Davis of the Quilt Rac--we had enjoyed sharing our blocks.

Baby Serger Quilt - My first seger quilt using a flatlock stitch. After pieced it was hand tied. I learned this method from my good friend Linda Tice. She works at Patchwork Plus in Dayton, VA.

Lovey Dove Dove - These block were put together and looked very pain to me. I placed the quilt on my quilt rack (with binding and all competed) and let it sit. I bought my Bernina 630E and the quilt started crying to me that it needed something more. I used Sharon Schamber's Delicate Stitch Quilting Designs USB stick. The quilt police will hunt me down for this one! I went straight through the backng. I broke the rules and it worked!!!

My First Quilt - This is the first quilt I ever made. I won't go into details, but I SOOOO did not know what I was doing and every step was done the very hard way!!

Stained Glass - Made in class taught by Marianne Simmons. Class taught at Patchwork Plus in Dayton Virginia.

Liane Loves Pooh - My 21 month old granddaughter, Liane, loves Winnie the Pooh so it was a joy to make this quilt for her.

Kelsye's Umbrellas - My 4 year old granddaughter, Kelsye, loves to play in the rain with her umbrella and rain coat. I couldn't resist making this quilt for her when I saw the applique umbrella pattern and the paper pieced child with the rain gear. I was able to raid my quilt stash to make this quilt

Falling Leaves - Hard to see in the photo, but this has a trapunto leaf in the middle of each block. Stipple quilted. Inspired after taking Paula Reid's class on machine quilting and trapunto. Just finished binding on 11/28 and haven't even washed yet!

Kristen's Sweet 16 - This is my second quilt ever made. I used the figures from the Inuyasha cartoon (Kisten's favorite at the time) and made her a quilt for her "sweet 16". I referenced her black and white cartoon books (which figures are quite small). I scanned the cartoon figures, blew them up, mirrored and used a reflection technique to trace them on to fabric. Once traced I used crayon to set the color in the faces before finishing the faces in hand embroidery. Blocks were constructed from 50+ batik fabrics with no similar blocks touching. I was completely self taught at the time so obviously I did all of these steps the hard way including piecing the entire back of the quilt! I made a matching pillow. She currently has this quilt with her at college.

Chloe's Redwork - My second redwork crib quilt -- no picture of first one. This was done for my Granddaughter Chloe before she was born.

Amish Rock - Made for my musician son Brent for Christmas -- the dark background and deep colors reminded me of an Amish quilt, so named it Amish Rock. Machine pieced, hand quilted.

Star Bright, First Star I See Tonight - This was a personal challenge to see if I could indeed machine piece finished size 3" blocks.

Sunrise, Sunset - This quilt is the result of a guild challenge whereby each entrant was given set fabrics and told to use at least some of each. I found the paisley fabric the most difficult to incorporate and thus it ended up in the border stars.

Stairway to Heaven - This quilt used 29 from The Quiltmaker's Gift fabric line plus other fabrics to create a challenge quilt to celebrate the 15th anniversary of The Quilt Patch store.

Teddy Bears - I was going to make a fabric book from one of the Simply Quilts show, but changed my mind and put the teddy bear squares together in a quilt. My only rule in making the quilt was - have fun and don't worry about mistakes. It was a VERY fun quilt to make even if there are a number of noticeable mistakes = mostly in the quilting. It lives in my son's room. (still need to measure the width and height - it's a small wall size quilt)

Waltz of the Pineapples - The quilt was foundation pieced on muslim fabric. I used a rubber stamp to put the design on the foundation fabric first.