Christopher's Rainbow - My husband has always been a rainbow lover, so it naturally had to be a rainbow quilt for him!

Matt's Quilt - I had seen a quilt that TQS member Margo had made with this pattern and fell in love with it. I wanted to make a quilt for my nephew for his 21st birthday and thought of doing this one. It's all batiks and he loves it.

Paris Underground - This is an art quilt based on the Paris Underground tunnels. It was paper pieced, has monofilament and metallic thread. It is slightly raised down the centre to give the impression of the underground tunnels. It is based on a pattern from a book on European quilts I purchased.

Feathers - This is an art quilt I purchased from Caryl Fallert's site. I enjoyed learning her technique and the beautiful fabrics and colours Caryl produces. Great learning experience.

Applique Work in Progress - Applique technique using fusible web. Appliqued borders.

I'm Quackers For You - Baby quilt for soon to be born child - quilt is a replica of the old duck pull toy found in a McCalls Quilting magazine - I believe - made in flannels & backed with fleece - I make all mt baby quilts with a fleece backing - much softer for baby.

English Dresden Rose - Made with Liberty Prints from England & Diana Rose fabric in made honour of Princess Diana.

Dancing Winnie the Pooh Bear - I purchased a kit for the basic quilt from Connecting Threads. It was intended to have a large plain square in the middle of the quilt. After I'd already started it, the mom-to-be picked out Winnie the Pooh as her nursery theme. Instead of some fancy quilting on the plain square, I decided to use copyright free clipart of Winnie, blow it up and applique'd it on the center. It looked lonely, so I added my own butterflies and flowers. It's quilted all over with Patsy Thompson "loop-d-loops" with flowers, butterflies, stars and hearts interspersed around the quilt. The applique's are trapunto'd with a very fat polyester bat.

Shakespeare in the Park - My niece is getting married on 8/8/10, and this is her wedding quilt. It's mostly batiks (who knows how many different fabrics / solid purple batik backing), wool batting, and machine quilted with nylon on top and Bottom Line in the bobbin. The rebel in me decided to do concentric circles a half-inch apart, rather than continuous line spirals, or something like that (What the blankity-blank-blank was I thinking! I'll be snipping threads from circle-jumping for weeks, because I got lazy and didn't do it as I went along.) I started it in July09, finished the top in Jan10, and just finished the quilting this week (about an hour before my guild meeting...just in time to bring it for show and tell). I still have to block it and put the binding and label on, but I thrilled I'm going to have it finished on time!!! Since the pic was taken, I've soaked it in ice water to remove the water-soluble blue and white markers (the cold water in AZ is NOT cold enough to do the job), washed it in hot water with Synthropal with two dye catcher sheets (I think I prewashed the backing, but nothing else, plus added 4 tons of starch along the way.), and dried it in a hot dryer. No need to call the quilt police. I got the effect I was going for, lots of puckery goodness and texture that hides my still-developing-confident-beginner-free-motion-quilting skills (long winded way of saying my circles aren't the smoothest). No, there isn't bleeding of the dark onto the light, and if there is, I can't find it. I slept under it last night, just to see if it works, and it does...haha! I'll wash it again, after the binding, as my cat insists on sitting on my lap, when I hand-stitch the back, and the fabrics could be a bit softer. My theory is enjoy the quilt and use it until it's nothing but shreds! If my niece puts it up in a closet, I'd be crushed!

Heavenly Swirls - I made this quilt for the "New From Old" contest for The Alliance For American Quilts. After the contest is judged, it will be donated to this organization and auctioned later this year. The drawing of the applique was inspired from a painted ceiling.

"Earth-Air-Fire-Water" - I fell in love with the graphics designed by John Langdon for Dan Brown's book "Angles & Demons" I asked John for permission to use them in my quilt and he graciously agreed. The center graphic and the four words for the elements are ambigrams. The graphics read the same right side up and upside down. The quilt design is original. This quilt lived on my design wall for nearly five years as I learned and developed techniques that allowed the work to progress. I hope you enjoy it.

Decade Mystery - This quilt took 10 years to complete. Well, it took a week to cut & piece. 9 years before quilted. 1 year later (yesterday) I bound it. Fini!

Party Time - A quilt for my grandson.

Orange Delight - I was house sitting and needed a project. This was my first quilt and I enjoyed the challenge.

Starry Night - I made this quilt for an anniversary present for my son and his wife.

Candy Wrapper - I made this quilt for my nephew's daughter Bella who is 7. Made from 100% cotton and machine quilted.

Tassie Autumn - I used my hand dyed silk and hand dyed cotton for the backing. It is intensely machine free motion quilted with silk thread. Trapunto used in several blocks to give dimension. I bought Diane Gaudinski's book on free motion quilting and used this quilt to practise her designs and techniques, also used some of Caryl Fallert's designs.

Iced Sherbert - Glorified Nine Patch made with iced fabrics in pastel clours set on point.