Cindy's quilt back - If you have teapots you need teacups! Family and friend sent birthday wishes.

Cindy's Birthday Quilt the front - Each teapot represents a facet of Cindy's life, she was born in Hawaii, FogHorn Leghorn is her favorite cartoon character, she went to Texas A&M, etc. She always joked that I sent subliminal messages in my quilts and so I sent many of them to her in this quilt. The back has tea cups with signatures and birthday wishes from her family and friends.

Madison's Multigenerational quilt - Madison's paternal great-grandmother (now deceased) made the blocks for this quilt in the 1960's or 70's. I was fortunate to find her UFO's before she got rid of them. I added the sashing and border and quilting. I've made quilts for each of her now 3 great grandchildren from the blocks. (I'm their maternal great-aunt) It's a wonderful way for all of us to remember a much beloved woman, Mary Emma Stevens.

Baby Madison's quilt - I made this baby quilt from a kit purchased at my LQS (with the pattern included). For the life of me I don't know where I put the pattern, but will update with the name asap. It was really fun to make out of a package of charm squares. I quilted a different motif in each square and hearts in the border. Posting a sample of quilting in my personal photos.

Porticos of Mt Vernon - Made a pattern from a photo I took in Mt Vernon in 1985. Pieced, appliqued and fabric I painted for parts of the background. Accepted for exhibition in the Tactile Architecture 2010 exhibition at the Houston International Quilt Festival

Ruins in Scotland - Enlarged, printed and quilted from a photo my Granddaughter took in Scotland in 2007. Accepted in the Tactile Architecture 2010 exhibit shown in at the Houston International Quilt Festival November 2010. Will travel to several International Quilt Festivals until late summer of 2011.

Charleston Gate

Hearts & Flowers

Stars for Samuel - This is for a young friend's third baby. Continuing in my tradition of not normal baby quilts, I started with black and gold fabric (In the top middle size star), and pulled out anything that looked like it fit. I am particularly happy with the batik in the middle of the center large star. I varied the size of the stars and got out graph paper to make sure it would work. This is one quilt for which I can answer that awful question, "How long does it take to make a quilt?" 17 hours, including design and fabric choice,but not including pre-washing. I backed it with flannel. It is quilted with random curlicues and stars.

congrats robyn - I made this quilt with a lot of help for my friend Robyn who recently got married. I picked her favorite colors. It has a lot of mistakes but was a lot of fun :)

Marathon quilt - My uncle hired me to make this quilt and use all his marathon t-shirts. The color inspiration came from artist Paul Klee, after seeing a painting he did, using similar colors to the ones in the shirts I needed to use. I didn't use any stabilizer with the shirts and had no problem with them. Most of the shirts were from the Atlanta Peachtree Marathon so I quilted peaches and leaves all over, using an Innova long-arm.

Winter Quiltastrohpy - This quilt inspires me to know there are no mistakes, keep moving forward and beauty will present itself. Created originally as pure redwork and then God's hand took over during first washing. I was mortified until I saw that the areas of pink stayed completely within the boundaries of the stained blocks. It is perfect. I could never have planned it this way...

Bouquet for a New Day

cotton candy - Just a fun little baby quilt. The colors were soothing to work with.

new stars - Made for my daughter for her home after it was remodeled after flooding.

I love Olive 2 - Wall quilt made expressly as a "headboard" quilt to compliment "I Love Olive". This was the first quilt I made with my Husqvarna Sapphire.

I Love Olive - Forty-two 12 inch Lemoyne Star blocks in Olive Based fabrics, with solid olive sashing, small 9-patches at sashing intersections and a bar border. Hand-quilted by myself. This quilt took me 5 years to complete. I recently rebound it, replaced one of the stars and quite a few of the border bars. I use this quilt on my bed all the time!

Hunny Bear's First Quilt - Honey colored Teaddy bears appliqued onto hunter green batik background. Colorful sashing and small batik animal blocks at sashing intersections.