Blinded by the Sun

Fraktur Bird - I designed a fabric wall hanging based on a bird designed by my mother, fraktur artist Meryl Griffiths. I adapted it to use with a stained glass technic.

Winners #1

Jeans and stars - Denim fabric from years of my husband's work pants....the stars are reverse applique all by machine and then the edges are all snipped to allow it to "chenille". It has no batting but the back and front are denim and the inner part is the red cotton fabric. It ended up quite heavy. Each block was done in a quilt as you go style.

Turning Twenty

Sweet Dreams, Austin - This quilt was a "learning" quilt for me and represented my first attempt at both applique and free motion quilting. This started out as a baby quilt, but like all my projects, benefited greatly by "scope creep." If I had stopped with the log cabin blocks as I originally intended, the outer borders, the appliques, and the free motion quilting would have all been missing. I wanted to produce a colorful and interesting quilt that my grandson would enjoy throughout his childhood. I love scrappy quilts made with lots of fabrics. Austin discovered an added bonus, which I didn't even know about: the stars on the blue border, which is also the backing, glow in the dark!

Memories of Holly - Using the applique of his picture in the middle of the quilt, then used the ohio star pattern from the front to surround Holly the appliquwe which included more picture on fabric of holly and miranda. Then I embroidered swuares around the ohio star blocks with a poem her sister wrote and an embrodiery of Holly and one representing family and dogs just fun. And of course Holly was written in Dog alpha

Kendra's Raffle Quilt - My niece Kendra is 2 and she has leukemia. We are having a fund raiser for her April 21st and this is the quilt I made to be raffled off. It started off as just a small quilt just a little over a crib size. Well now it is larger then the size you would put on a twin size bed. I am very pleased with the way it turned out. I love everything about this quilt.

Snow Goose - This is a traditional quilt design going back to the late 1800's. I've seem many variations of this quilt in books and magazines so I took my scraps and started making the flying geese units. The quilt was made over the winter so I called it Snow Goose.......Goose from the Flying Geese blocks and Snow with a nod to all those Canadians who are "Snowbirds".

Winter's dusk - soft pastel shades with a hint of opalescence

sisters' series - Purple and white quilt with a Southwestern feel to the machine quilting.

Reflections - This was a challenge with the theme: reflection. I was inspired by a painting made by M.C. Escher. These resembles the reflections of trees in the water.

Lab #2 - This is the second of a series I am working in exploring the Fused Quilt process 12X14 using hand dyed, fused, machine quilting, with the escape hatch finish

PAVE

Nautilus

Southern Comfort challenge - It was a red white challenge for local quilt show. Our BEE decided to do "Southern Comfort" mini quilts, 8 x 10" and they will be attached to each other for the show. Southern beverages or comforts. I'll take a picture next weekend of the collection.

Mystery Quilt - Went on a Mystery Quilt at Avalon Homestead retreat in the beautiful Avon Valley Western Australia. For a confident beginner, at the end of the 3 days, the brain was fried. Still to put the borders on then quilt it but wanted to share as I was really challenged with the techniques used. Had a brilliant and talented tutor!