Every Quilter Dreams - 4083 pieces and 150 hand dyed fabrics, 15 different blacks, 15 Appliqué Blocks, elongated flying geese sashing and an alternate snowball

Mariner's Sunrise - In making this quilt I used gradated fabric for the flying geese, also used sunrise colors for the compass in the center.

Arizona - Our President's Challenge for 2010 in our quilters' club was to create an item that included circles. As I do like the motion of circles, this was the right project for me. In creating the wallhanging, I wanted to give the impression of various aspects of the State of Arizona...the Grand Canyon, flowers, Native American heritage, and SUNSHINE.

BWR - I made a Ricky Tims' Kool Kaleidoscope quilt earlier (see Mayan Sun Storm), and this quilt was inspired by that look. However, I had to plan/draft the segments specifically to get the star design I wanted, instead of having unplanned "what you see is what you get" results. I also did not use strip sets. I made this for a guild challenge where the only restrictions were to use black, white and only one other color. I saw the button in a store and knew I had to use it for the center.

Sunflowers to Windmills - Driving across Kansas, weird thoughts come up. Where did those windmills come from? Were they planted? Maybe they're sunflowers that grew really big.

Courtyard Flowers - The original pattern showed darker colours with a sunflower border with an option to use brighter colours with a daisy border - I chose the latter. One of my favourite quilts.

Fish Friday, Saturday, Sunday.... - Original design, commercial cotton fabric, painted, embroidered, applique, couched.

Hippy Dippy Strips and Curves - Had a great time (and thought of using sun glasses!) while piecing and quilting this one. Fun pattern.

Brightness Personified - I made this for my 93 year old mother. She uses it on her bed

Blended Trip - Fall colors are my favorite ~ this is a Trip-Around-the-World with a slight twist of inserting 9-patch blocks to blend one color into the next. Completed block size equals 3 inches (even the pieced 9-patches).

Mariner - My guild had a challenge with the theme of "Seasons". I immediately thought of the summer my daughter was 12, and she practically lived at the Girl Scout sailing camp. My inspiration was a photograph taken of her on a Sunfish.

Cat at Sunset - This design was inspired by an experiment with hand painting fabric, and a photo I took of one of our cats sitting on the wall of our patio at sunset.

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My daughter, my friend - I made this lap throw for my daughter who moved to NJ in August 2008. Just wanted her to know how much I love and miss her. This quilt helped me feel confident about accurately piecing sawtooth stars, and machine applique. Used mostly my evergrowing stash! My first hand quilted piece!

Clematis - Photo of a clematis in my garden, manipulated on Photoshop and printed onto cotton. Machine quilted. This will be going to the Little Gems project for a tombola at the Festival of Quilts in August. Inspired by the work of Beth Wheeler while taking her online class.

Blocks of the Month - These were the May, June, July, August blocks from the Block of the Month...Made into a wall hanging. More to come

Northern Minnesota Boundary Waters - My husband and dogs have camped for many years in Minnesota. We especially treasure our time spent on the shores of Farm Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Access Area. This fabric and quilt design brought back memories of lying on a blanket, on the shore, in August watching the Perseids meteor shower and listening to the howling of distant wolves at the International Wolf Center, Ely, MN. Heavenly!

Nebulana Dreaming - This was so much fun to make! The background uses a curved piecing technique that allowed me to create flowing "space gas" shapes, then cut out and insert circles of other space items. The fairie design was hand appliqued into place, and the wings are made of needle lace made using silver thread and dissolvable stabililzer. The quilt has been on a national tour with other Fairie quilts for the last 16 months or so, and will return home, I believe, in August 2007 or so.