Sylvia's Bridal Sampler - My version of Jennifer's pattern. Started July 2009 and completed quilting April 2010. Signed in lower right corner block by pattern designer I met at book signing.

Mom's Roses - This is one of Cynthia England's blocks using her Picture Piecing technique.

Andrea's Quilt - 9 blocks without border

Spools - We took this class at our quild. One of the other guild members supplied us with the pattern. I do not know where she got it.

Baby Batik - Friends expecting their first child wanted a non-traditional baby quilt in mainly greens and browns. I was stumped until I remembered the batiks I'd been collecting for a few years, and realized they would be the perfect choice. I started with the fabric appearing in the large block and incorporated all those colors. Rather than centering the focal fabric, I chose to set it in the middle of the lower row and create a color wash around it. I'd originally planned to use just the one border fabric in mottled green/brown/yellow, but it looked too blah next to the green sashing, so I added the yellow/orange/pink between to add a pop of color.

Winding Ways Wall Quilt - I've always been intrigued when I have seen this pattern made up. The way the circles wrap around and your eye keeps catching first one circle, then another. If I ever make another one, it will be larger so that the center doesn't have so much material in a really small place! I've had people offer to buy this one, but I'm not ready to part with it just yet.

Blue Ice - 80 scrap paper pieced blocks. I fell in love with the border fabric and then designed the yo yo flowers and stems. This took many, many hours. I would make the blocks and take them with me on trips to Visit my children. Strange looks from people on the plane while I tore the paper off.

Simon's ABC quilt - I made this quilt for our first grandchild. Knowing my daughter was decorating the nursery with an alphabet wall, I chose to design an alphabet quilt using different fonts and sizes of letters. I tried to use a different fabric for each letter but ended up repeating three fabrics because I couldn't find enough prints in the colorway combination she had requested: aqua, lime, gray, white and black. I hand appliqued the letters, but machine pieced the blocks and border, and then used a friend's long arm to quilt in a meandering pattern. I kept the design a surprise until I gave it to my daughter at her baby shower. She was thrilled with it, and uses it as the backdrop for weekly photos of our grandson.

Wildflower Wall Hanging - One of the local quilt shops wanted me to teach hand applique. So I picked these patterns out of one of my many quilt books and made it up for the class. I'm crazy about the border fabric. It just screams "me"!

Maple Leaf - I won the fabric on line and took many months and a design wall to complete the idea. The original quilt had a barn on the centre and was done in other colours. Without a pattern I had to figure out each section as I went along.

Baby Quilt - This was a scrappy quilt that I gifted to a friend upon the birth of her first child (a boy). I used bigger scraps for the pinwheels and smaller scraps for the prairie point inner border and the multicolored binding. I bought a couple yards of the fun monkey fabric years ago and have used it in 7 baby quilts. I wish I could find more of it!

Cone Flower Quilt - I loved this pattern and the fabric so much when I saw it in the Connecting Threads magazine. I mentioned it to my friend and she said "Oh, I already bought and made it. I have enough left over for you to make another one". So she gave me the left-over material and the pattern. I was short on some of the gold, I believe, but otherwise, it is the same as the original. I have used this to teach other women how to needle-turn applique. I still love this and even more once I got it quilted. My quilter, Kathy Burkitt, did a marvelous job.

Garan's quilt - I changed the borders

Civil War Wall Hanging - I made this while taking a series of Jo Morton classes at Cousin's Quilt Shop in Bellaire, MI. I just love Jo Morton's fabrics and have quite a collection of them that I add to when I can. I thought that I wanted to use some of them up and then when I did, I went out and got some more. I've got to have my Jo Morton apparently! :-)

The Crooked Path - This quilt was accepted into the AAQI Alzheimer's: Forgetting Piece by Piece show. Handpainted whole cloth background, echo quilted to the brush strokes. Path is organza, focal point is burned through the fabric.

Springtime - The original pattern called for 4 squares of the bearded iris but I opted to just use it once and add my designs of a rose, a lily and a pansy. Color choices and quilting design choices were my own.

A Life of Its Own - I drew the skink on my computer, printed it on fabric & appliquéd it. Trapunto was used at different levels to emphasize the floral design I created by Broderie Pierce.

Georgia Mountain Morning - This quilt has well over 100 different fabrics. Every hue, tint and shade of the reds and blacks were combined together and it worked out wonderfully.