Here are some of the quilts that I have made. Click on the picture to
see a larger version. Almost all are machine quilted by me. Only one is
hand quilted (the flag).
This king sized double wedding ring was a 15th year wedding anniversary gift to
my husband. I designed it with EQ5 and each block is different from the
next, so it spent lots of time on the design wall.
This large-twin-sized I-Spy quilt is lots of fun to play with the kids on the family room floor.
This quilt was made for my parents on their 50th wedding anniversary.
There are three dimensional trumpet flowers scattered throughout. This was
a big design challenge for me.
Lap sized Christmas pinwheel with a braided border. If you look really
closely, you'll see that there is only one block, but the color positions create
the variations.
My daughter is holding "Ragged Hearts". The website background
is from this quilt.
This set of Stack-n-Whack quilts was made for my twin niece and nephew.
"Happy Stars" was a result of my first published quilt.
pattern. To order a copy, click here
"Perky Pinwheels" uses prairie points to create 3-D pinwheels.
This is my second published pattern. To order a copy, click
here.
A set of paper pieced flowers.
My original design using the traditional apple core template
for this wall-hanging. Hand quilted stars with the "big stitch".
A queen sized half-square log cabin. A lesson I learned on this one is that long
cross-hatched lines of quilting don't work well for a bed quilt. The
pulling and yanking that happens to a bed quilt tends to put too much stress on
those poor quilting threads and they break.
A queen sized wedding gift to Stefan's sister and her betrothed. This
Stack & Whack quilt was in the first S&W book. I used a beautiful toile
type fabric with botanical drawings of herbs.
Twin sized "Stars and Shuttles" The very first Stack-n-Whack I ever created.
Boy was I addicted!
A colorful Easter picture.
This was a gift to a teacher who's class mascot was a dolphin. Lots of
applique.
"Forever Spring" was a Jan Wildman pattern. When I ran out of
light green background fabric, I came up with the oval of pink background.
I love when "mistakes" make the difference between a regular quilt and
a fabulous quilt.
This was the last church raffle quilt in a series of seven that I was the
"quilt mom". The "birds in the air" pattern is great
for a group quilt when all the block sizes aren't exactly the same size.
Its easy to cut them down to a common size.
I also made 3 raffle quilts for the Kindergarten classes each year. The
kids drew their face on muslin and I sewed them all up. The border and
sash fabric matched the class theme for the year ("kinder-bunnies",
"kinder-bees", "kinder-owls", etc)
My first T-shirt quilt was made for my sister after the untimely passing of her
husband. These were his favorite t-shirts, and there is actually a picture
on the back of this quilt with him wearing one of these t-shirts.
While the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was blaring over the radio for weeks, I
felt called to keep my hands busy, and this was the result.
I made two matching Half Square Log Cabin quilts out of my scrap bag...used
every scrap I owned! Granted, most of my scraps were strips, which made it
easy. Also, since I lacked enough light fabrics, I found that some of the
medium value prints could be used wrong side up for a lighter value.
I used my serger, which makes the quilts stronger, I think. These twin quilts
were hand delivered to a Catholic religious retirement home in Biloxi, Mississippi.
This is my first try at a rag doll using the pattern
here. My sewing class of
9-year-olds will be making these to send overseas.
This Thousand
Pyramid twin-sized quilt was for my 12-year-old. He chose the pattern (I
was hoping for something FAR easier, but I can't resist that sweet face!).
I used Sharyn Craig's method for
sewing the triangles together and it really helped. I designed it with EQ5
and used the print-out to sew the rows together properly.
This banner was
made for our Women's "Christ Renews Our Community" weekend at my church, St.
Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Altamonte Springs. My hope is that they
use the banner for both men's and women's weekends each year. The cross
design was inspired by one of our stained glass windows, and the various colors
of people signify the various mini-communities that come together this weekend
to form one new community.
(miniature
quilt) I dreamt this idea one night, and sketched it out as soon as I woke up.
I have only dreamt one other quilt design (the ragged hearts that is this page's
background), so I felt like I really needed to make it up ASAP. Turned out
to be a Christmas gift for Millie, my secret pal that year.
The name of this
lap-sized quilt is "The Stack & Whack Queen", because it is the culmination of
at least 11 other Stack & Whack quilts. I used 5 different sizes of the
same kaleidoscope block, and again, designed it in EQ5 before cutting a single
piece of fabric. The lime green background means this quilt doesn't need
batteries!
"Our Farm" This was a
little miniature quilt I made for my SIL, Chris. She accompanied me to a
quilt show in Ft. Myers, and picked this kit out from
Grannie Suzzanie's booth.
Of course I couldn't leave well enough alone, I had to double the number of
blocks and make a vertical piece instead of the horizontal one. I think
all that was left of the orange farm border fabric was a 1" x 4" piece !!
This
KING sized quilt was made for my brother and his new wife, Nicky. All
batiks, which was alot of fun to pick out and sew up. The pattern is
"Yikes", from Maple Island Quilts.
I have lots of scraps left over from this one, and I just love using them for
other projects, they go together so well. I especially appreciated adding
to the piano key border with leftover scraps from each block. So when the
blocks were pieced, so was the border! I machine quilted each block
separately using a
Hari Walner design, so I drew the pattern 36 times on wash-away stabilizer
and pinned each one to a separate quilt block.
A picture of all six of us in Charleston, November 2006
I
made this signature quilt for my father's 80th birthday. The flowers &
leaves are raw-edged appliqued.