hawai 7 - My 7th Hawaian quilt. I love the fabric and the way it makes your eye go from left to right over the quilt.I love Hawaian quilts and this is nr 7 in the row. I still have nr 1 and this one the rest is sold. Mariet

singapore laundry - This quilt is made by me after we lived for 5 years in Singapore. When you visit you will see that the laundry is always hanging out of the window to dry. This for me feels like that the heavy sky not sun shine but heavy with clouds the poles with the dresses. I dyed the background and asked my mom for some dress material and appliqued it the ples are sprigs from a Malaysian broom The quilt hangs in my house Mariet

Lavender Blue - Bed quilt 89" x 89". Used patterns from Jacobean Applique, Books 1 & 2 by Patricia B. Campbell and Mimi Ayers, PhD. Plaids, metallics and variety of bright pastels used on mottled background fabric in peri-winkle. Sashing adapted from pattern on EQ5 computer program

Happy 60th! - What a great way to make a lovely quilt- no fretting over the design at all. Once I'd chosed the fabric, the rest was easy. .. and the quilt turned out amazingly! I made it for my sister, who is also a quilter. She does not have a single quilt that she has made for herself, she gives them all away. It was her 60th birthday, so we flew into Ls Vegas from opposite sides of the country. we met at the airport, and I was so excited i gave it to her right there!

Stars Two - Second in a series of 3 quilts made, encorporating old had-appliqued star blocks made in the 40s-50s by my husband's grandmother.

old stars 1 - Two years ago, when I was just trying to learn to quilt, I received 33 quilt blocks made by my husband's grandmother in the 40s-50s. I decided the blocks would be shared equally between my husband's 3 sisters. This is the first of the quilts.. The original blocks were all hand-appliqued;I appliqued the blocks to clean muslin my machine, leaving the old muslin behind the 10-point stars to provide extra strength.

Emily Rose

Baby Circles

Missing Memories - My friend had to leave her baby daughter 2 weeks before her 1st birthday to prosecute prisoners in Iraq. These are pictures her husband took while she was gone.

Good Bye Sweet Beas - Still deciding how to quilt this. Dedicated to my 11 year old Springer Spaniel Beasley - who died 8/7/07, the day I put the last border on. He loved sleeping on one my quilts under my sewing table. Mr. Brisco misses you!

Bill's Wolf - Created for a Wolf expert in the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources. It is a combination of wolf and bark fabrics. The outer border is a dark brown batik. While not the most technically difficult, it is treasured by the owner. He contracted Lyme's disease while working and was medically retired. The fabrics jumped out of my stash and practically arranged themselves into this design. Who knew one could have a stash with design skills?

A Yooper Year - Now hanging in a Sr. Citizens assisted living dining room - This quilt was adapted to reflect the year's weather and activities here in the uppper peninsula of Michigan. Our winters are longer, our spring comes in two stages; mud and then the flowers. We included autumn and deer season. We added buttons to make a manger scene in the front yard. As Christians, we wanted to include Jesus's birthday and found the perfect buttons of Mary, Jesus and Joseph. We added as many buttons and decorative threads as we could find on this raw edge appliqued quilt. Buttons included: shamrocks, hearts kites, chickens, stars, bats. The quilter went wild and added very creative and heavy quilting. There are so many designs she put in, this quilt draws the viewer in. The border fabric we thought was perfect since those 2 story homes reflect the homes of the captains of copper mining days here.

Summer Sun/Abbey's Graduation Quilt - This was one of my most challenging quilts. It seemed like I had to make the fabric first and then cut the pieces and then sew the blocks and then sew the blocks together and add the borders etc. It seemed to take forever. Plus ever little strip seam had to be matched. But my daughter really liked the quilt. I used the left over blocks to make her some matching pillows. She has taken the quilt to college.

Allison's Graduation Quilt - Allison picked this mostly white quilt out of the book Quilting Makes the Quilt for her high school graduation quilt which she took away to college for use on her bed in the dorm. I envisioned it returning home in tatters but that was not the case at all. She took very good care of it. But she still enjoyed her life at Villanova and I received many compliments from parents of her room mates. The saddest thing was her freshmen year room mate was killed just after graduation in a deck collapse out in the Chicago area. Allison and I attended her memorial service on the Villanova campus. I will post Allison's wedding quilting made in 2005 soon.

Lake House - Designed the quilt from a photo taken of the lake house where my sisters and I have an annual reunion. I did the quilt, then all "the girls" brought charms, buttons, etc, and we used these as well as embroidery to embellish the surface. It was given to my cousin, the home-owner, as a thank-you gift.

mystery quilt

mystery quilt 2006-2007 - North Pittsburgh Quilt Guild Mystery quilt 2006 - 2007 season