Little Diamond Island - A pieced design made by 8 people, using an enlarged photograph for patterns. The pinwheel border uses the technique from the book "Square Dance" by Martha Thompson.

Red and White and Violet - I have a very dear friend Violet who has been a quilt mentor to me. She is 89 years old. I saw a quilt she had done with this block and loved it. I had the same fabric she used but I was a little short so she gave me her leftover fabric. This quilt has been completely pieced by hand and is in the process of being hand quilted. I may be 89 by the time I get it finished. (I am 45). I set my blocks a little different from hers. I staggered mine because I thought it looked like picture frames on a wall.

Carpe Dicem - My friend Jackie taught me Stack and Whack on a weekend Quilt Show trip. Thank God she is a great long arm quilter and could quilt out the problems. All my blocks looked like Size D Bra Cups.

Stars and Checks - This was one of the first quilts I ever made by machine. I made two of them. This one was for my daughter and the other was given to a girl from Belarus that we hosted for two summers. It is a fun quilt and I still love bright colored quilts

Flying Monkeys - My quilt guild had a challenge where you were given a color, a feeling, and an embellishment to use on a quilt. My color was purple, my feeling was anger, and my embellishment was beads. The monkeys jackets have beading on them. I won second prize with this quilt.

Florentine Fantasy - Stack-n-Whack pattern consisting of blocks made of 8 kite shapes plus corner triangles, strip sashing with cornerstones made of 4 triangles in stack-n-whack technique.

First Quilt for Vanessa - This baby quilt was made for my first granddaughter in the Boston Common pattern using 1930's reproduction fabrics. She also has a matching queen sized one waiting for her entrance into college around 2020. Hand quilted cables fill the background sections.

Hanalei Fragrances - Each of the 20 blocks is appliqued in a different color with two adjacent borders of the same color. Two outer borders are woven pattern from all the fabrics used in the flowers. Hand quilting in echo pattern completes the quilt.

Music From Angel Fire Opus 20 - This quilt was made for the 20th season of Music From Angel Fire (NM) chamber music festival auction. It raised $3000 for the festival. Center of each star is a photograph of a different musician or staff member involved in the festival.

Kauai Dreaming - This is the back of my fabric collage jacket. The front features the Napali Coast of Kauai. Kauai is my favorite place in the universe, for sure.

Fishing for Compliments - Center panel was purchased at 2006 International Quilt Festival in Houston. Border Panel was also purchased there. Completed quilt is embellished with multiple shapes of beads.

Pat's Doily Quilt - After MIL died found 1000's of doilies. Made this for her sister who lost everyting in Katrina

Sacramento Kings Quilt - I made this quilt for a silent auction to benefit the school where I was the principal. It brought in $2000, and I was thrilled and surprised. (Our Kings were doing better that year.) A parent at the school made charcoal sketches of the major players and I scanned tham and printed them on fabric to make the white blocks in the inner border. A person with "connections" saw the quilt and got the players to autograph it. This was a major undertaking, but very rewarding.

Iguana! - made for guild challenge to create a hidden block from an existing block

Grapevine - Made for a guild challenge - design using a block pulled from a hat!

Dawn's Early Light - This quilt was made for my older son's wedding. It won best of show at the local county fair a week before the wedding.

Radiant Jalisco Star - This pattern uses Jenny's fabric line as well as her pattern. Stars consist of 8 different pink fabrics and 8 different greens with fussy-cut border fabric. Specialized quilting follows fabric designs and takes advantage of background areas for feathers.

Kauai Breeze - I fell in love with this quilt and had to buy six issues of the magazine to get the patterns! Self-taught and WAY over my head, I learned a great deal as I constructed this quilt with SO many tiny pices and all of those triangles! Cathleen now has a book and this quilt is on the cover.