Crazy Quilt Bag - Original Crazy Quilt Bag Design ~ we're going to NH "Mancuso" :) Created from practice blocks ~ test stitches, colors, textures, before in actual project. Quilted, CottonBatt, backed, hand shoulder straps, button closure :)

My unfinished loped sided hexagon block/quilt - This is other picture of my centre block prior to the star point being sewn onto it. It also includes the other completed block to be used.

My unfinished loped sided hexagon block/quilt - This is a work in progress. I have working on this pattern/quilt for sometime. Originally I became disillusioned by the hexagons. How was I going to put it together. I did not want to copy the original design. So it all went into a plastic bag until January 2011. After a dream it all started happening. So far, its a star with two additional blocks. I continue to work on it every night while watching television. Once the star pattern is completed I already know the next step. In my picture there is two other blocks one partially completed and the other completed to be fitted into the pattern at same stage. The is another completed block that is pink in coloured to be added to the photo's at same stage.

Waves - my first large quilt

Card Trick - This is a Hoopsisters Mystery Quilt done by emboridery on my Brother Quattro machine. We were given 6 weeks worth of patterns through the month of June. I made 8 inch block and they sewed them together. I placed a piece of fabric on the back to cover the seams and put on a binding. I really enjoyed doing it. I really learned a lot about my machine doing it. I really enjoyed it. This is the second quilt that I have done from Hoopsisters.

Begonia Picotee Lace - A painted wholecloth quilt with very heavy thread play. Inspiration photo by my husband, Gary

peacock - I made a pencil drawing of a small postcard and then went on with the biggest paperpiecing I ever made for the background. Original peacock feathers gave me the right idea of the colours. The rest ist hand applique and hand/machine quilting.

Jelly Roll quilt for homeless black border

Jelly Roll Quilt for homeless - Jelly roll quilt done for homeless in Texas = Quilted on TL18 LS with qBOT

Jelly Roll - King - Jelly roll quilted using QBot and varigated King Tut

Bird Play - I went to a quilt store and saw a kit with beautiful wool for an upcoming class. The background is grays and turquoise. There is a brown tree branch with three birds on it surrounded by berries, leaves and flowers. Besides wool, there are velvet, silk and cotton fabrics. There is also lots of embroidery, buttons and beads. The quilt store is also a bead store.

Summer Table - Bright orange, green, blue and white table topper. Appliquied flowers and machine embroidered quilting.

Portrait of a Tudor Rose - A portrait of a Tudor Lady,centre hand appliqued wild silk, the border fused and machine Applique. All quilting done on a domestic machine. Inspired by my love of English Tudor History and by watching the BBc TV seies "The Tudors". I did enjoy the research into Tudor dress.

Diamonds and Arrowheads

Bouquets For A New Day - Susan Garman pattern.. Red flowers in baskets.. triangle sashing and inner border.

My Journey With Jane - Blocks as in book by Brenda Papadopolis.. Border trianges were not pieced, I traced the block on fabric and quilted the seam lines that would have been pieced.

Double Dutch Thanks for the Holland trip - Made from fabrics bought in The Netherlands on a trip in 2005 and purchased at a garage sale in Pella - hence the "Double Dutch" name. My parents took the whole family on a bicycle / barge cruise. Surprised Mom at the Pella Tulip Time Quilt Show while she was wearing her Dutch costume.

Great-Grandma Van Heukelom's unfinished quilt - One day my mom mentioned a box of "old fabric scraps" she had from her grandmother. When we opened the box, it was an unfinished double wedding ring quilt top. All of the fabric is in the box, ready to finish it. Since Mom doesn't make quilts, I begged for the opportunity to finish it. So, here goes... And the mystery is...why didn't Great-Grandma finish it? Why are (most of) the cut out pieces just a shade too small? And, somebody else worked on it (who?) because there are some "obviously not 1930s fabric" in it. (I'm taking those out.) I also have ALL the cardboard templates, 2 newspaper articles (dated) about Double Wedding Ring quilt patterns, some old pins, needles, thread... This is such a treasure!