American Beauty - This is one of our beginner quilt classes at Creative Sewing Center. It is a 6 month quilt. This quilt is for my son & daughter in law who met in Korea during their respective Army assignments. It will be quilted on a Handiquilter 16 next month. I combined Marcus Brothers and Moda fabric to create a truely gorgeous quilt.

Cats, Fish-bones, and Mice - This was a class I took years ago and never finished. I decided to finish it, only to find out that I didn't have enough main fabric (blue). So, I found a companion fabric in black, added some hand-dyed fabric to coordinate, then made enough blocks to finish it. Rather than a rectangular quilt, I made it 6-sided, to reflect the basic block. Since the fabric has cats, fish-bones, and mice in it, I had my quilter quilt fish-bones and mice into the borders. As you can tell, my cat loves it.

Pirates of the Caribean - This is a tribute to all those large prints in collection that don't work with any pattern. There are 5 large places to put focus fabrics. I love the pirate movies from my youth when we watched tv downstairs after everyone went to bed. How we could hardly wake up in the morning to go to school.

Adventures With Terry - This is a $5.00 Quilt class taught to 80 people who chose their own focus fabric. We used Kona Bay Asian fabrics. The first block sets the tone of the star medallion. Every block after that is a compass or star. The quilters came once a month to see the demo, pick up their new block and then the kit to complete the needed blocks for the round. We are teaching the same quilt again in 2008.

Secret Lovers - This quilt celebrates the beauty of a simple orchid. It is entirely hand-painted and is embellished with a very few crystals.

Ladies of the Louvre - The premise of this quilt is that I've gone to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa....only to discover that she looks amazingly like ME! Hmmm... Imagine That!

48 points - Took a class on the Square in a Square technique. I love batiks so I made this not so traditional wallhanging from a very traditional block.

David's Quilt - In Fon's and Porter magazine this quilt is titled Li'l Dude, and was designed by Janet Lutz and Barbara Huntington.

notebook cover - Strip pieced notebook cover

First Quilt - First quilt class - a sampler

Gift for Alexis

Baby balloons - Made as a baby shower gift for my mother's cousin's first granddaughter. Start to finish, this took me less than a week.

Baby Kaleidoscope - Nursey for new baby was going to be based on snails and mushrooms -- that brought me to this fabric.

Texas Waltz - Main fabic is "I Love Texas". Made for the new son of a friend that passionately loves Texas.

Trout for Joy - The center fabric shows rainbow trout. Made for a wildlife lover.

Star Bargello - This pattern was designed by aShirley Cummins of the Happy Trails Quilt Club in Surprise, Arizona. I entered it in the 2002 Western Washington State Fair in Puyallup and won several awards.