Rainy Day - San Francisco, October 25, 2010 - The strength and durability of its architecture spanning over the waterfront on a gray and rainy day last October inspired me to take a cell phone photograph just as we exited after our own trip on the bridge across the Bay. To translate that photo into a quilt several shades of hand dyed gray cotton were raw edge appliquéd on a gradient printed ground. Textile paint, fabric markers, computer printed graphics and free motion quilting were used to translate the photo into a pictorial quilt which I hope captures the essential grandeur of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

Seven Cranes for Japan - After the tsunami, I wanted to do something to express my sympathy for the people of Japan. Since it's good luck to make one thousand origami cranes, I decided to make cranes. (But not one thousand!) Margaret Rolfe's pattern was available only in Australia, and when I ordered it, I couldn't wait for it to arrive in Canada. So in the meantime I traced a picture of one of the blocks and made my own foundation pattern. As a result, my cranes are facing the opposite direction from Margaret's. I'm sure the positive energy I stitched into them reached Japan anyhow!

Adam's Wedding Quilt - 89X89 inches. Machine pieced, paper pieced, machine applique, machine quilted. Four and 1/2 inch blocks set on point. I used all the Dear Jane patterns that I could paper piece and machine applique and then filled in with other patterns from here and there. The outer border scallops are adapted from Linda Franz's version of the Dear Jane quilt.

Sky A Puppy - A commission piece of a lady's whippet as a puppy. Free style quilting, raw edge applique on a whole cloth background. Whippet puppy with tiger lilies - for more info visit http://windyglenquilting.blogspot.com

Dutch Flowers & Whippet Figurine - Inspired by the dutch master's paintings of flowers, I added a little whippet figurine to the table. Free style quilting, raw edge applique. More info on this quilt at http://windyglenquilting.blogspot.com

Pilated Woodpeckers - 36x54 wall hanging, free style, raw edge applique, machine quilted. sold 2011 More on Pilated Woodpeckers at http://windyglenquilting.blogspot.com/

Stars from the 30's - I used my stash of 30's prints and love the results. I finally got the courage to put it on the long arm and quilt it. It's the most ambitious quilt I ever did.

Flamingoes! - made for me ! from variety of flamingo fabrics

Avery's Quilt - knew the baby's colors would be brown and pink - found the PERFECT brown patterned Kaffe Fassett print so used to pick the other colors. The angles were "weird" so I had to use templates for the big angled pieces. Went together pretty accurately except one of the angled piece's tips is "off" but it's not really noticeable after the quilting was complete. This is probably one of the first truly flat quilts I've done, with no buckling or waviness on the edges. The "A" is paper pieced.

Autumn Mums - Bought kit after taking class with Frieda Anderson. Really fun way to do a wall quilt. Everything is fused including the binding! Her fabrics from the kit were absolutely beautiful. The colors are actually much more vibrant than the photo indicates.

Winter's Evening Star - Quilt designer, Emma Tyrrell shared this classic quilt block with Ladies Home Journal in April 1933. It was reprinted in Century of Quilts magazine in approximately 2004 or 2005. The quilting was designed by Maureen Herran and was accomplished by free-hand quilting on a longarm machine. None of it was done by computer.

Jean fishing quilt - Jean quilt with plush backing and no batt. Embroidered center

jean fishing quilt - All denim quilt, Fish embroidered on light blue denim by MD designs. Log diamonds around the design, then finished the outside with 6 x 12 blocks. No batting used but the backing of quilt is a plush blanket fabric. Quilt was tied a various corners to stabilize it.

Earth Snowballs - My friend commissioned me to make an anniversary quilt for her parents 50th wedding anniversary and wanted earth tones. I love making snowball blocks and had some great Thimbleberries fabric in my stash, so decided to combine them making earth tone snowball blocks! The light fabric in the corners is actually a light colored batik that I found at my favorite local quilt shop. My friend was delighted with the quilt! I hand appliqued 2 butterflies on it...one for her Mom and one for her Dad.

Texanese - A friend of mine commissioned me to make this wallhanging for her brother's new mother-in-law who lives in Japan. She wanted a Texas theme in wallhanging size, since the homes in Japan are quite small. I designed this wallhanging to incorporate Texas theme items using Texas theme fabric and some Asian fabrics. The blue in the corners of the blocks and small border is bluebonnet fabric and the sashing between the blocks is chile pepper fabric. I was pretty happy with the way it turned out and my friend's MIL was thrilled to receive it!

Baby Crockett - I made this quilt for my friend's 2nd baby boy. For the first baby I did an Elvis themed quilt (my friend loves Elvis), so for her 2nd baby boy, I chose to do a motorcross themed quilt (dad is into motorcross). I found this great motorcross panel, added the checkerboard border and a larger boarder with more motorcross riders. I quilted in the ditch around the borders and also around the riders in the panel. My friend loved the quilt and hopefully her baby boy will be able to use it for many years to come!

The Wedding Quilt - I made this Wedding Quilt on commission for a friend. I used bridal brocade fabric for the white and several sage green fabrics and a cute black and white print with square rings hooked together. I was really pleased with the finished quilt, even though I did minimal quilting (in the ditch and "Xs" across the white squares), and my friend was very impressed with it! I almost didn't want to let her have it!!

Hanami Breezes - My quilt was accepted into the 2011 Hoffman Challenge Traveling exhibit. This is the first time I have done extensive machine quilting on a show entry, so I am pleased that I got into the show. I used my placemat design, which I designed and entered for the Quilt Show Placemat Challenge, and enlarged it, added hand drawn appliques, hand embroidery and trapunto on the flowers. (Thanks for the trapunto lessons on the Quilt Show!)