pointsettias - Pointsettia flowers from hand painted fabrics, raw edged stitched down with decorative threads. Vase is commercial fabric. Background is hand dyed fabric quilted with highlight superior threads. Started in a workshop with Phil Beaver - fabulous class.

sunflowers - This is a needle-turned hand applique piece. Yellow sunflowers in a bright colored vase with a blue fossil-fern fabric background. Machine quilted. The sunflowers were from a Susan DuLaney pattern and I changed the shape and pieces of the vase.

Struction Vehicles - Quilt was made for my son when he was about 3. I call it the struction vehicle quilt because at the time, he generally pronounced it struction, not construction. At this point, he corrects me when I call it the struction vehicle quilt, but I still call it that ;). He usually sleeps under the quilt and it has held up well to use and machine washing (I quilted a bit heavier that I might normally so it would stand up to the washing machine). I need to re-measure it, I forget the actual size.

Fuchsia Fireworks - This is a bright fuchsia and blue and black abstract designed quilt. It was done with curved piecing. I machine quilted circles in a variegated thread in each block.

Good Morning Sunshine - I made this quilt in a class given by Linda BAllard at a retreat in Weaverville CA. I raffled it off at a small quilt retreat with friends and my good friend, Carol Jemison won it. She has it in her house now. It is red and white pieced using 1930's reproduction fabrics. Lots and lots of half square triangles!

Twisted Log Cabin - I bought all the fabric in Houston and made this quilt for my daughter. This is not made in the usual way of paper piecing but is made as a traditional log cabin and then each round is trimmed on the diagonal and when finished this gives the block a twisted look. Quite complicated and wasted a lot of fabric.

Optical Illusion - Made this at a class held in Dunoon.

Moondance - Found this on internet and fell in love with it. It is designed by Beth Ferrier from Applewood Farm Publications. It was a block of the month and took me over 2 years to complete. My first attempt at making a full size quilt with free machine quilting and I still love it.

Two sisters challenge - After watching Vikki on the 2nd episode of the Quilt Show my sister and I challenged each other to use her technique of free-hand curves. The brief was to use three or five fabrics and to have it finished before my sister went into hospital to have her hand operated on. As you can see I finished mine - I am still waiting on hers to be completely finished!!!

Christmas Stockings for Sandy

Jessica's Quilt

Family album - original design in turquoise with black and white family photos of 5 generations, New York Beauty blocks and bargello blocks and lots of batiks and Jinny Beyer palette fabrics

Chess quilt with snail - Original design inspired by the chessboard with lots of novelty fabrics. The quilt is a quillow which can be folded into a pocket to become a pillow. On the front side of the pillow is an appliqued snail (not shown in picture).

Orange doll quilt - doll quilt in oranges and yellows with lots of novelty fabrics and a batik border

The Rose Garden - A trip around the world quilt in brown, yellow, neutrals, pink and red, with border prints by Jinny Beyer; color combinations inspired by Jinny Beyer's "Color confidence for quilters".

Green Bargello - bargello with a twist, made from around 8 green fabrics

'To Have and To Hold' - I made this as a wedding present. It's simplistic, but full of love.