"Square in Square"

Precious Hands - Center Block is Grandma and Grandpa's names and wedding date. Handprints of all the grandchildren with their names and birthdates. Grandma has severe macular degeneration so hands are trapunto'd.

"Red, White & Blue"

Caribbean

Americana

Isaiah's Quilt - Center is a quilt panel, extreme borders are cheater's cloth, backing fabric is a colorful sea life print. ISAIAH PRINCE is quilted in top border and HAMILTON in bottom border.

Cody's Shoo Fly Quilt - I modified the Shoo Fly blocks down the center of the quilt to spell out the letters of my godson's name C-O-D-Y. I incorporate the child's name in every quilt that I make. Native American motifs are quilted in the cornerstones, arrows in the borders and targets in the blocks.

Mallory's Ice Cream Cone Quilt - Handquilted and Embroidered "Mallory Meeks Ice Cream Parlor" with cherries at top. Green fabric in lattice is also used for backing and pink flowers are quilted from the back in the borders.

Irises for Ruth - Made because I love irises. Paper pieced pattern and curved piecing patterns added to leaves and border of my own design.

Semillon - Celebrating a holiday in the Dordogne, France, land of sunflowers, walnuts, foie gras and wonderful red wine. The quilting represents the rain showers and the sun shine.

Summer Lemonade - Made for challenge 'Colour Full'. I wanted to see if I could create an art piece that still retained all the essential qualities of a quilt. It is quite heavily machine quilted to showcase the effect and the texture that quilting creates. The green squares are trapunto stuffed.

Auqua Aurora - This quilt is a visual representation of my reawakening after a bone marrow transplant in 2004 and recovering from Non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

St Francis - This quilt was a chance for me to learn about St Francis. He was an amazing fellow. What you cannot see in the picture is the glitter and gloss applied. It took the better part of a year to complete. My favorite part is the tame coyote!

It's A NEW Day! - This quilt was commissioned by a private individual and will be in DC for the 2009 Obama Inauguration. It will also be published in a book from that same show and possible travel in an Obama Quilt show.

Venus - This quilt was a stylized version of my favorite Boticelli painting. It is totally orginal and machine quilted on a Bernina 153 with Metallic Maderia threads.

Fish - This was my first entry ever into AQS and it was accepted and printed on the AQS website as well as the AQS 2005 Desktop Calendar.

Friends Quilt - My friend Diane and I each made a "Friends Quilt" from sampler blocks and a purchased panel. The sampler blocks were chosen to reflect our friendship.

Twinkle Twinkle - Design expanded around a 1 inch square taken from 'Inspiration Odyssey' by Diana Swim Wessels. Bonded applique. Machine satin stitching and machine embroidery stitching using rayon and metallic threads. Felt batting.