Cat Napping - I bought this pattern at the 2010 Knoxville AQS show after going to a lecture by Cynthia England. The fabrics are all from my stash.

Stars for A New Day - This is the first TQS BOM that I have ever done, and the first entirely paper pieced one. What fun it was. I selected my own fabrics in order to have them work with my bedroom decor. Also I had to enlarge it to go on my king sized bed. I didn't like the enlargement suggestions offered for this quilt, so made up my own outer borders. I entered this quilt in the 2010 Village Quilters quilt show and recently showed it in the Little Tennessee River Artist's League art show.

What's Life Without a Slice of Pizza - This quilt was designed and made for the 2010 Village Quilters Challenge called "A Slice of Life."

Starlight Log Cabin - I designed this quilt using Electric Quilt 6 software. It was for our guild's challenge and it won an honorable mention ribbon.

Halloween Wedding - This quilt was made with the Rail Fence block with simple mitered borders added.

Gunnr - Gunnr is a 4 year old boxer that makes us laugh every day. This is his portrait.

Another Christmas mini - the second mini for another Secret Santa swap I am in. these are great to pull out for a seasonal effect. I made these in 24hours had a sewing blitz, I machined quilted just a grid cause I am no good at machine quilting.

Christmas mini - I am in a couple of Secret Santa Swaps so I made a mini that they can pull out every year to display

Birds of a Feather and Blocks Together - I just wanted to make a quilt that I could name, "Birds of a Feather and Blocks Together". It has some traditional Sisters Choice blocks combined with flower and bird applique blocks. The applique is a little Baltimore with a clear Piece O'Cake influence. I loved making this quilt.

Autumn braid

Iowa Rose "touch me" block - I was asked to "design" and make an 8" applique block to be used as part of the "touch me" display during the exhibit of antique quilts from Winterthur Museum currently at the Va. Museum of Fine Arts, as told in the TQS Daily Blog.

Riaan's Quilt - second of a series of 4 "landscape" baby quilts designed to "grow" with the child the basis for the design is a childhood drawing riaan's mom had done on a postcard she sent me many many years ago this was very freely interpreted according to materials in my stash and the shops while i was searching different materials were used to give the baby interesting textures to feel and explore while still quite small buttons, ribbons and things were used to embellish and add interest for baby and child. crochet flowers can be added / moved (affixed to the button flowers) when the child is a little older. again the blanket can be used as background for wooden and other toy animals, cars & whatnot flowers made of ribbons from riaans' parents' wedding, as well as leather collars with bells (around the sheeps' neck) were added after foto was taken

Nina's Quilt - first of a series of 4 "landscape" baby quilts again - the quilt is designed to "grow" with the child the basis for the design is a childhood drawing one of the babies' mom had done this was very freely interpreted according to materials in my stash and the shops while i was searching different materials were used to give the baby interesting textures to feel and explore while still quite small buttons, ribbons and things were used to embellish and add interest for baby and child. crochet flowers can be added / moved (affixed to the button flowers) when the child is a little older. crochet butterflies are fixed - but clouds can be moved (large push-buttons - no velcro as those often damage childrens' clothing) again the blanket can be used as background for wooden and other toy animals, cars & whatnot

Lea's Farmyard - Thought out the project when i was lying in hospital with a broken ankle. The idea is that this playquilt acts as a comfortable blanket for an infant and baby to sleep and play. As the child grows, it should become a playrug with lots of details for different games and to enhance the imagination. The quilt was given together with a collection of wooden farm animals which can also go inside the house and barn as these are multi-layered with different fabrics insdie the rooms and moveable curtains/doors. As you can see, not only Lea, but also her friend enjoy their comfortable playground. Great fun to do - but think it'll remain one of a kind.

Family Tree - Original design, commercial fabrics, hand applique, embroidered, beaded, embellished, hand quilted, hand embroidered.

Kathleen's Joy - Machine quilted, hand embroidered and beaded, 3D quilt from commercial fabrics.