Playful Colors - Cheryl Malkowski, the author of the book, asked our Quilt Guild if anyone wanted to make a quilt with one of her patterns designed for this book. We might even get a picture of our quilt in her book when it came out. If we made a quilt, we would get a free book. My quilt didn't get in the book, but I had a lot of fun making the quilt!!

Floral Bullseye - This was a block swap on Pat Sloan's yahoo group.

Bad Sue disorients sea turtles - Bad Sue is at it again. On the Florida coast it is illegal to have lights on in the sea turtle nesting areas. Sue shines her flashlight to draw the hatchlings away from the water.

News to me: Boca Grande - This is a "clipart collage" inspired by the newspaper articles about giant iguanas invading the resort town of Boca Grande. I accidentally rotary cut the bottom off during construction. Maybe rotary cutters could be used against the iguanas.

Nancy's Cuban Buttercups - My friend Nancy takes wonderful photographs. This shot of Cuban Buttercups (Turneria ulmifolia) looked like it would make an interesting quilt. It is machine appliqued, embroidered and quilted. The fabrics are batiks. I used a bit of paint stick to darken the centers.

Amish Bullfighter - This quilt was made in Alex Anderson's first class she ever taught at Asilomar. It was a hand quilting and quilt design drafting class and we chose from a variety of Amish patterns. She taught us how to draft feathers and cables and transfer them onto the fabric. I call this Amish Bullfighter because I never really liked the shade of purple I used. I would have liked a darker color. It reminds me of a color a bullfighter would wear or his cape. :)

YOP - This YOP quilt I made in a class at Asilomar one year. I forget the teacher's name at the moment! I call it YOP for = yellow, orange and purple quilt. I wasn't thrilled using the orange but at the teacher's urging, I did. My friend Judy liked it so much (why, I don't know :P ) so she owns it now. :)

Tic Tac Toe - This quilt was adapted from the book "quilting for people who still don't have time to quilt", by Marti Mitchell. I enlarged the quilt and added additional 25 patch blocks on each corner.

The cow jumped over the moon - This is an appliqué pattern based on the nursery rhyme, the cow jumped over the moon.

scrappy four patch

Funky rail fence - This quilt was adapted from a pattern by Stephanie Corina Goddard, with slight changes to the border and the size.

Red/White/Blue Stars - Five traditional Star patterns using red/white/blue.

Sunflowers for Mama - Sunflower blocks designed by my husband Tom. Sunflowers set on point then added alternate blocks in green and gold to represent the large leaves of the sunflowers.

Color My World - Challenge Quilt for Fabric Carosel - Illusions of Color 2007 Used 3 challenge fabrics and added 1 more fabic. Center of green with greens and blues radiating out to all shades of blue with flying geese in the borders.

Flutter By - four butterflys, colored with crayons and embroidered outlines.

My Baltimor Album - I was inspired to make this quilt by Elly's first book Spoken without a Word. I bought the book in 1984 and later began making the blocks from Baltimore Beauties and Beyond. Life happens and I only worked on it a bit at a time until 2005 when my quilting group would quilt it if it was a top!! They did! What a beautiful job!

4 Babies - I taught a class on printing on fabric with an Ink Jet Printer. I made this as a sample. The babies are my Mother Ethel, age 90, myself age 59, my daughter Lisa, 34 and granddaughter Anna, 8. We were all about 1-2 years when the pictures were taken.