Grandma's hankie - After seeing the beautiful hankerchief quilts of Pat Gardner, a member of my Baltimore quilt guild, I decided to make a quilt around one of my grandma's old hankerchiefs. This quilt is very personal to me.
Tessellations - I took a workshop with Gyleen Fitzgerald and members of the Baltimor Heratige Quilt Guild. This is one of my favorite quilts and a lot of fun to put together.
Purple Jewel - I made this quilt at a retreat after a friend showed me the uneven four patch square in a square technique that she learned from a Ricky Tims workshop. I received a stack of hand dyed squares and decided that this would be a perfect use for them. The purple in the solid is my favorite color. I machine quilted this by free motion connecting circles.
Yin and Yang - I love oriental fabrics so I decided to make this quilt as a wall hanging for my foyer. The circles are machine appliqued. After auditioning hundreds of fabrics for the border, I decided to make this sort of greek key black and white. I'm very happy with the outcome.
Remembering Crater Lake - This quilt uses non-traditional fabrics and 10 different threads to create perspective and dimension. All of the embroidery was done via machine using free motion. The front-most trees were embroidered on tulle and water-soluble stabilizer, then attached. The tree on the right took nearly 9 hours to embroider - all free motion. Aurifil Lana Wool thread and Superior's Razzle Dazzle gave this tree extra depth and texture.
Round Robin - This is a round robin made by 6 people. I used Pat Sloan's Moment in Time pattern to make the center. The other 5 rounds were based on that.
Wedding Quilt - Used another method for making the nosegays without the templates. Use backbasting for applique. increased the quilt to 99" square. Based the colors on a floral 30's fabric and then did not use the floral for the border. Put yellow sashing between blocks to emphasize blocks.
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