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).  Newest at the Bottom.

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Rev.5/23/09

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.

     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.

My sister, Renata, asked for a king sized quilt for their bed.  We choose "Wild Geese" from Glad Creations and she chose colors based on a small glass vase she liked.  I really loved the planned scrappy way it came out, and the pattern was so well written.  (104" x 98")

Polka Dotted Happiness: ( 72" x 72")When I saw this quilt on the cover of Quilters Newsletter Magazine, I knew I had to make it.  Its called "Everyday Best" from the book Quilts with a Spin.  I changed the border and added rick rack everywhere.  Every bit of fabric I used is polka-dotted, and the quilt makes me happy, hence the name.

  Julia's Quilt  (110" x 70") My daughter turned 12 in April, and that means she got a new quilt for her bed.  She wanted Polka Dotted Happiness, but I convinced her that a big twin sized quilt would work better.  So I used my box of polka dots for this quilt.  Amazingly enough, I don't think the pile of polka dots got any smaller.  Hmm.  The pattern is "Twisted Sister" from Ami Simms.  I made a matching valance too.

  Mariner's Compass (40" x 40") had been sitting patiently in my closet for years while I figured out how to quilt it.  Now that my quilting machine is fixed, I figured the time was right.  I used Cindy Blackberg's fabric stamps to make the compasses.  It was a great hand piecing project...I miss working on it!

  Fractured Windows (22" x 22") was a quick little number I made up based on an article in a recent American Patchwork and Quilting.  It is all fused with a bit of decorative stitching too.

     Tati's Quilt (70" x 70") started out as the result of a guild class with Sharyn Craig years ago where we traded strips of fabric to get lots of star colors.  Tati (Stefan's cousin) liked it, so I added a couple borders before giving it to her.  The border was made with skinny wedges left over from Julia's Twisted Sister quilt, plus a bunch of "strings" from my scrap bag. 

   Hidden Stars: lots of blue scraps leftover from Alex's "Thousand Pyramids" quilt. 

  Raggedy Strings: (23" x 28") just a little quilt with 5" blocks, but its an oh-so-much fun way to use up strings.

  Hidden Wells, the Foldy Stuff way: (38" x 53") using a Foldy Stuff pattern as the foundation, this is a great way to use up scraps or make it more planned, color-wise.

  God's Blessings: this was a project for the Orlando Diocese Council of Catholic Women.  Since the 2009 convention theme was "Patchwork of God's Blessings", it seemed appropriate to make a quilt listing our blessings.  We asked the 12 moderating priests, plus Bishop Wenski, to tell us God's blessings to them.  I then printed the answers on fabric, cut them into hearts, and fused them onto a rail-fence background.  My handmade polymer clay buttons were a last minute addition that were fun to make. 

Stefan's Log Cabin: I made this quilt in one weekend.  Well, OK, it was a quilt retreat weekend, so all I did was sew and eat.  Does it get any better?  Stefan received the quilt for his birthday in 2009