unknown - 100% Hand quilted in my first class. It is a 39" square in purple and blue and white shoofly and ohio star 9 square blocks and the border is blue, white and purple the same as the sashing. The backing is purple and white the same as squares on front.

Dandelion Quilt

Hungry Caterpillar

First Glimpse - When you enter the Rose Red City of Petra in Jordan you have to walk along an ancient riverbed through high colorful canyon walls. This entrance is called the "Siq" and is 1.2 kilometers long. You first catch a glimpse of the tomb called the "Treasury" with its rosy colored rock face carved in the early 1st century AD. I made this quilt from a photo I took in 1987 after a most wonderful tour of Petra.

My Whimsical Quilt Garden

Fall - Thanks to Ricky Tims demonstration of the One Seam Dimensional Flying Geese block, this pulled the whole idea together for this side of a Two-For-One Quilt. This is the Fall side, Christmas is on the other side.

Kaleidescope #2 - These are a blast to make. This is the second one I made using the border as the base for the other colors.

Starry Nights - I made this quilt for my son Jordan's girlfriend, for her university graduation. She is now in optometry school on her way to becoming a optometrist.

Purple, It Shall Be - I almost named this quilt the Purple Monster! It is about 120 inches square. I made it for a relative who absolutely LOVES purple. I especially enjoy feathering and took the opportunity to feather the quilt in a variety of feather techniques.

When you hear hoofbeats... - Based on a photo taken by my son of two Grevy's zebras in the National Zoo, Washington, DC. It is done in reverse applique by machine, the edges of the stripes are distressed to resemble hair, the manes are thread painted with variegated and metallic thread. The borders are woven and attached separately. Machine quilted in the approximation of a zebra stripe pattern.

Circle Dance - Different fabrics were used for each circle. Yo-yo's were added to each circle with beads to each yo-yo. I added the felting.

Spring Carnival - Made for my niece for High School graduation.

2008 "The Quilt Show B.O.M." - Sue's pattern with my choice of colors, designed to go in my bedroom. Made a month at a time in 2008 as the patterns appeared, assembled early in 2009, quilted in 2010.

Circling Redwork - Wanted something easy to do while watching the olympics of TV.

Snow falling in New York - Check the first Snowflake for the story of this saga. However, this project with 2500 - 3000 pieces would never look like it does without the help of a TQS member Becky Kelher from Colorado. To do one of these flakes required a very specific fabric that was produced 10 years ago. She had it stored in her treasure chest, and very kindly offered it to me along with all she had from the same family of blues. We met on line here after my first flake was out. The fabric series was called Serendipity, and indeed it was just that kind of a relationship. This was a 8 month project. The quilting was done with invisible thread, as I just couldn't bear to take away from the art of piecing.

Hands around the World - Storm at sea background with applique map of the world in batiks, hand prints around the border are in acrylic paint, each one per child, from the school.

Love is a Work of Heart - My first block of the month and the quilt took 13 months to complete. My favourite form of handwork is freezer paper applique.

New England Sampler - The pattern for this quilt was purchased at the Houston Quilt Fair in 2002. Freezer paper applique is my favourite stitching method and the quilt took approximately a year to finish. In 2009, it was juried into a quilt exhibition held in the Anglican Cathedral in Edinburgh during the Edinburgh International Festival.