African Nights - A wedding gift. We knew Bill in Uganda and the fabrics reminded me of a clear African sky at night in the bush -- stars undimmed by city lights. I kept the pattern simple to reflect the simple life we lived that year.

Wonky Baby Quilt - As a member of Project Improv, I wanted to make a quilt "off the cuff" with no measuring or planning. It seems I succeeded in created some fun wonky blocks which made a nice baby quilt for a little girl born in April 2009. I used a lot of different prints in bright, cheery colors along with plenty of white. The back is pink flannel with stars and a panel of appliqued flowers.

Purple 20 - This is an all flannel fabric quilt front and back. It is machine pieced and home machine quilted. The border was machine embroidered quilted using a stock pattern from Designer Gallery. All work done on my Babylock Ellageo machine from Oct 2008 - July 2009. It was a gift for my daughter Colleen.

Sofia's Quilt - Created twenty fabric envelopes with bright, cheerful colors and surrounded them with equally bold colors for sashing and borders. Machine quilted between envelopes. Left mostly puffy to make it soft for Baby Sofia.

Landscape at Ceret - My interpretation of a rather abstract cubist style painting by Juan Gris, using fabric, buttons and beads and cording. Hand quilted.

Summerquilt for Nina - This is a play quilt for my daughter Nina. With the sun in the middle. Around the sun swallows and flowers. And on the outsides the numbers 1to 10 and the alphabeth.

hollys quilt - machine applique and hand quilted. Made to auction for a little girl with medical problems

Grandma's Blue & White - Dark blue print appliqued on white. There are central twenty large appliques spread out as in a grid 4 by 5. The border contains trees with nine numbs for branches. The quilting, all be hand, Creates a totally different pattern. There are animals, different shapes and meandering. The back side shows this the best.

Single Wedding Ring - This quilt was made for my bed. I chose to keep the setting simple so it wouldn't overpower my bedroom.

Sailor's Warning - Made for Ricky Tims challenge. My first original quilt. I learned a lot making this and I would like to do it again and hopefully fix some of the issues that came up as I made it.

Roses Converging - The center of this piece is a Ricky Tims convergence. The border design is original.

Cool Cats - I had some Laurel Burch fabric that I loved and wanted to use in a small wall hanging. I took one of the designs from the fabric, enlarged it, and appliqued it onto the quilt. Then, I cut out a smaller design from the fabric and appliqued it on as well. Strips from Laurel Burch fabric were appliqued on as accents. I tumble rocks as a hobby and so I added some the rocks I had gathered from Moonstone Beach in Cambria, CA (glued on). There are also Swarvorski crystals as embellishments and some gold and silver threads and even some couched Razzle Dazzle thread. This was a quilt that I simply played with and had fun making.

Just Keep Swimming - This quilt is uses applique pattern of turtles. I believe it was published in a magazine but I am not sure of the source. Along with the appliqued turtles I thread painted 3 beta fish on the quilt as well.

Cecelia Rose's Quilt - I made this quilt for my co-worker when she had her first baby, Cecelia Rose in March of 2009.

Batik Bathing Beauty - I intended this to be a quilt, but after setting triangles required piecing (don't ask) I turned it into a Shower Curtain. Excellent use of the beautiful Batiks.

fushia quilt - I always like to learn something new with each quilt I make. What I learned with this quilt is--READ the directions! I saw this & liked it and it was all made with 5" squares. Great, how easy is that. ordered all the fabric. What I didn't notice is that all the squares are on the bias and individually cut . Whole totally new lesson to be learned.

Splash of Color

Flowers in Rags