Dancing Tulips - Sheer fabric incorporating purple chenille and gold thread tulips (salvaged from a thrift store blouse) is fused over commercial cotton print. Butterflies are beads. Inner border of piping covered with same commercial cotton fabric. Border is commercial cotton twill, binding is another commercial cotton print. Finished April, 2007.

Sun Over a Pyramid Play - Charlie chose to make her Pyramid quilt monochromatic. I can't think very well in gold and brown, so I left that to her. I love how it turned out! This is from my book Fun With One Block Quilts.

Blending the Bulging Blasted Blender Block - This teal, rust, golden quilt has one boarder that extends out on the side. The light part seems to bulge out forward.

Scrappy Fall Sampler - I had a thing for Samplers and bought several kits. This one actually got completed....almost...still doesn't have the binding finished but it got included on 'picture day'. Has Hobbs Heirloom wool batting & 1 piece back.

Paisley Challenge - This was for a guild challenge to use a gray and gold paisley fabric (that was not very pretty). The finished quilt had to contain at least one Ohio Star. I had always wanted to do a Log Cabin Ohio Star layout and thought this was the perfect opportunity. At our monthly quild meeting in August 2008, 22 quilts were displayed and members voted in four categories. This quilt was selected as People's Choice. My first contest and first win! Even though it was a very small contest, I was very happy to have this quilt chosen for the top prize. This picture does not begin to show the fabulous quilting that really makes this quilt special.

Bouquet - I love "Fantasy Fabrics" by Bonnie Lynn McCaffrey. It is a fun and very forgiving technique. I used silk flowers on top of a hand-dyed background with a cream tulle over the top. It is quilted with a gold metallic thread.

Plaques and Tangles - Two stylized pictures of the brain with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) were printed on white fabric. They were cut in strips in varying widths similar to Ricky's demonstration quilt (can't find the episode) and then the fabric was alternated. Thread was used to create the different parts of the brain. Yellow for nerve cells; black for disease; gold for microglia - the cleaners in the brain; and silver for astrocytes. One large neuron shows the beginning of tangles within the cell while the black cell is a dead neuron. The clump of black rods outside of the cell is plaque. The tangles and plaques are proteins seen in AD. This quilt is for Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. Tip: once you have put the fast finish triangles on to hang the quilt - don't go back and do more thread painting......

Gold Rules - I made this quilt in response to a challenge for my fiber arts group The Explorers. The theme was Gold Rules. The flower was painted with white puff paint on white muslin, puffed and appliqued on my hand-painted fabric. I painted the flower and background with a dry brush technique using gold paint. The binding is sari fabric that a friend gave me.

Friendship Garden - Made with the triangles from the Sisterhood of the Traveling Triangles exchange. Size is 89"x101". I modified Edyta's design to fit the size I wanted. The "golden" triangles are a pinwheel in the center, border to fit the size of the other blocks

Golden Pear - The central pear started as a doodle in the Bernina Embroidery Software version 6 which I proceeded to digitize and embroider with my machine. Then I added more stitching detail including some couching and bobbin work, followed by free motion quilting and painting with Tsukineko pen work.

Completely Dotty - I was never interested in making a quilt with curved piecing until I saw this pattern. Once I started I wondered why I shied away from curves for so long. This is a fun pattern to make. It is from Piece O' Cake Designs and Becky Goldsmith had made it for her niece. It hangs in my family room and everyone remarks on it and loves it.

Autumn Glissando - Strip-pieced blocks, using gold lamme fabric; with applique silk leaves and cotton ferns (traced from my garden ferns.)

Navajo Twilight - This was my second quilt. I made it for a Mary Ellen Hopkins Online Contest. It had to contain Mary Ellen's flying geese, so it's kind of a three-dimensional quilt.

Kashmiri Pineapples - This quilt was inspired by the Hoffman "Kashmir" collection, and I was most interested in have the "circles" show in the design. this was my first pineapple quilt, but certainly won't be my last! A paisley is quilted in each dark area.

Birds in the Peonies - This is a pieced and appliqued quilt. Ihe quilting was done free hand with a Nolting Hobby Quilter.

Jenny's Daydreams - I created this design on EQ7. The quilt reminds me of architectural design which is why I named it after my niece Jenny who is training to be an architecht. I love the contrast of the black and white sashings with the various sizes of printed fabrics. The fabrics are from the Snowflower range by Free Spirit. Using the variety of print scales gives this quilt design movement, and I love the modern, fresh colours. I have taught this class to lots of quilters and helped them choose fabrics for the quilt in many colourways, I am always excited by the beautiful and differnet combinations we come up with.

Primary Starburst - My husband loves gazing at the stars and enjoys the planets through his telescope. He chose the colors and the material for this quilt and requested simple line quilting to represent light rays. The batiks added a nice hue to the mariner's compass.

My Geisha - Originally designed for a Hoffman challenge, but as the deadline approached, I found the quilt was not even remotely square, some of my quilting tension went wonky, and my dear cat chewed off the beads (grrr). So, I parked it for a couple of years, then pulled it out this year and fixed it to enter in the Ogallala Quilt Show.