Manzanita in Springtime - This was to be the first in a series of seasonal California trees. Other projects got in the way, and so this small quilt is an only child.

Relay for Life-Quilt of Hope - My friends sister who is battling cancer was entering a team in the "Cancer Relay for Life" fundraiser. I agreed to help raise donations for the team and I would make her a team banner. The banner kept growing until it became a quilt which I dedicated to the memory of my mother who lost her battle with the dreaded disease two years prior. This was finished the day before the fundraiser and I still had to make the banner. It was my first time paper-piecing. The ribbons which represent some of the different types of cancers and the daffodils which is the cancer flower were paper pieced. Mom loved butterflies so I bought and appliqued them on. To me they represented "hope" that someday we would have a cure. I also appliqued the symbol and motto for Relay for Life.

Impulse - A Storm at Sea pattern worked in bright batiks. The challenge of quilting this quilt was changing the thread to match the color of the blocks every row.

Very Hungry Caterpillar - I adapted the twin sized quilt design from Andover Fabrics to make a smaller baby quilt using their fabric line for A Very Hungry Caterpillar.

A Tisket A Tasket 12 Monthsl of Baskets - I completed the monthly blocks in redwork then machine pieced it together. In January I took a machine quilting class were I planned the design and began the quilting. It was just the right size for practicing my machine quilting skills.

Mark's quilt - Sometimes you see a pattern or quilt and know that you have to make it for someone. That is what happened when I saw this quilt at a retreat. I knew I had to make it for my nephew Mark.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Made as a gift for the birth of my Great Niece who was born at the end of January 2011.

FESTIVE sTAR - THIS IS ANOTHER VEIW OF FESTIVE STAR SHOWING APPLIQED BORDER

Festive Star - I like this lone Star quilt because it is cut in strips sewed and cut diagonally so you are not cutting and sewing triangles It is easy to make iT HAS AN APPLIQUED BORDER I plan to make another one

Mariner's Christmas - The challenge title is "Blue Christmas". I elected to represent my childhood dream of what Christmas as a live-aboard yachtie would have looked like.

Granite Moons - This was a free pattern put out by Wallmart's Fabric Group of the month This was a fun quilt to make I lined it with Lime Geen because I thougt a Quilt with this much color deserved a vibrant color I quilted it in a circle design I wish now I had used a varigated thread instead of white but at this time varegated thread was not that available I bought all the fabric right there at Walmart

Ceilidh's Quilt - Seashore fabrics for the 2nd birthday of a wonderful little girl born in Plymouth, MA

Flowers for Virginia - Made for our HomeSchool advisor after my son graduated. Unfortunatly she was retired and didn't know where she was. Some of the flowers are like the pict. in the mag. and others are a twist on them or my own. 2nd quilt, 1st hand quilting....what an experience that was!

Aidens Quilt - Upcoming birth of grand-nephew shoved me into this. It is my 1st quilt and took me quite a while because I had no idea what I was doing. Fused, satin stitched and tied with yarn. Found the images online. 2010 and it's in shreds...he loved it to death!

Point Me True North

My Dresden - I have misplace the quilt magazine but used the pattern from there Machined Appliqued the medallion onto White background This was first quilt done on my new Babylock Crown Jewel using ruler, stencil, and pattern I used a thick batting so the quilting would show

Rose Garden - Just put the final stitches on the binding. I started this nearly 2 1/2 years ago but have made others along the way. The original pattern has intricate applique on all the sashing and border, but I knew I could not achieve that so I opted for the machine embroidery instead. I decided to embroider on black since I planned to use the black and red border fabric. Hope you like it.