This quilt top is made using a green print, a beige strawberry print and a berry fabric for the borders.  There is a green print for the backing and binding.  This is a quilt for charity.  Someone had pieced the top and turned it in to the guild, so I took the top to quilt it.  I ended up stitching in the ditch.

Approx. 44" x 56"

Hand Pieced and Machine Quilted

This quilt was commissioned for a doctor's office.  Each quarter they have a drawing for expectant moms, and they give "baby" gifts.  This will be for their next round.  Like another baby quilt I had made, I chose 4 colors of the same print to make the top.  The backing is an Aunt Grace flannel, with the same pastel colored little animals on it.  I love this flannel fabric, and I know that the lucky little one will find it so soft!

Approx. 40" x 48"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This quilt is actually two quilts:)  This was made for a local quilt shops, "Gotta Have It" challenge.  We were to make a quilt that depicted what we had to have.

This quilt was displayed at the '03 NC State Fair.

Larger quilts is approx. 24" x 27" Smaller quilt is approx. 18" x 18"

Machine Pieced, Machine Appliquéd and Machine Quilted

This is throw for me!  It's all mine! This is like the blue and gold and purple and pink flannel throws I have made before that somehow end up warming someone else...like my dog and my mom:)  So I made me this one, and I'm not letting it go!

Approx. 66" x 72"

Machine Pieced

This is a heavy duty quilt!  It is made of royal blue and red flannel squares and then has lots of puffy batting along with a royal blue flannel backing, all of which makes it VERY warm and heavy.  Hopefully it will keep its new owner very warm during the long, cold winter!

Approx. 79" x 91"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This is a companion to the quilt above.  It is just as heavy duty!  It is made of hunter green and brown flannel squares and then has lots of puffy batting along with a brown flannel backing.  Hopefully it will "fall" on its new bed and warm up the room:)

Approx. 85" x 97"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This little quilt was a sample for my guild's paper piecing workshop.  I used really puffy batting, not sure I will do that again:)  We had kits for everyone at the workshop, so there will probably be another one of these on the page later this year.

Approx. 13" x 17"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This was a cute printed piece of fabric that I paired with a hand dyed yellow piece of fabric and then meandered all over to make a baby quilt for charity!

Approx. 41" x 48"

Machine Quilted

This quilt is for my cousin's wedding.  I won half the blocks in a block lotto online...the soft neutral colors are so pretty...I hope the new couple love it as much as I do!

The center block is one I made and embroidered a wedding blessing on it.

The label is also hand embroidered with their names and date of the wedding.  I wish them the best!

Approx. 65" x 89"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

These blocks came from a birthday swap gone haywire.  I only received 8 out of 22, so the blocks sat on a shelf for a long time.  Finally, I took them out and a piece of purple fabric I had dyed and decided that they would look nice together.  So I put the blocks together and had the quilt basted for the longest time...it just didn't really ring my bell so I never wanted to work on it. Then a lady on the Cozy Quilt Patch list sent an email asking if anyone could send her orphan blocks so she could make some quilts for her sister and three nieces that had just lost their home and everything in a fire.  One of the girls, Joelle, likes purple.  I thought of this top and sent an email letting her know that I had a top I would quilt right up and send to her for Joelle.  I hope it helps her with this terrible time.

I feel this quilt really was meant to be for Joelle.

Approx. 36" x 36"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This is a charity quilt.  I used a brown scarecrow fabric for the centers and then cream and browns for the sashing...they are sashing triangles so the square ends up crooked.  I used brown flannel for the backing and quilted in the ditch of the squares and then free motioned quilted stick men in the centers.

Approx. 41" x 41"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This is another charity quilt.  One of my groups had everyone bring fabric, and then we just pulled what we thought went together...This quilt has 4 instead of 3 fabrics and also some different center squares because there was enough for all the squares to be the same.  I think it came out cute!

I also quilted in the ditch on this and in the centers I did flowers and one butterfly. Hence the name, Butterfly in My Garden.

Approx. 36" x 40"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This quilt was again commissioned for the doctor's office.  This time I made it with 5 colors of the same print and I mitered the borders on this one.  The backing is an Aunt Grace flannel, with the same pastel colored little animals on it.  I don't seem to get tired of making this quilt, but I try and make each one a little bit different.

Approx. 40" x 48"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This quilt is another charity quilt.  The fabric was packed up with the pattern, the green has little daisies on it and the flower and white have little tone on tone flowers also.  I quilted big flowers in the yellow squares and then meandered the white blocks.  I think it's so cheery!!

Approx. 41" x 41"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This little quilt is for the North Carolina Quilt Symposium's Silver Anniversary Challenge.  When the information was sent out and I read through it, I was riding in the car to Florida.  They had four categories, Memories, Friends, Inspiration or Hopes and Dreams.  This design popped into my head and I drew it on this little piece of paper I had in my purse.  I then decided I didn't really have time to make it before the symposium. Later, they needed more entries for that category, so I decide since it was little, I'd go for it!

I hand painted all the fabric, including the silver with Seta-Color paints.  The silver "bolt" of inspiration is hand appliquéd.

This quilt has been displayed at the '03 NC Quilt Symposium and the 2005 Columbia County Fair.  It won a 5th place ribbon at the '03 NC State Fair and the Honorable Mention at the 2004 North Florida Fair in Wallhangings.

Approx. 19" x 15"

Machine Pieced, Machine Quilted, Hand Appliquéd

This quilt is a little fishy...hehe, just because there are fish on it!  This is a charity quilt.  The focus squares are a tropical fish print and then two tone on tone fabrics have a print that give the effect of seaweed:)  I stippled this quilt.

Approx. 41" x 41"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

The focus fabric is a print that seems very retro, but I think its an original from its time period.  The blue and green tonal prints really compliment the fabric and match perfectly!  This quilt is stippled also.

Approx. 41" x 41"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This quilt is for Quilts on Wheels, a group that collects quilts for wheelchair bound nursing home residents.  It is the Chinese Coins pattern and all the fabric and batting were in a kit the group gave out.  I pieced the top and then stippled in the coins.

Approx. 42" x 47"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

I participated in a favorite fabric swap. Each person sent a swatch of fabric in and others made you a block using your fabric.

That way all the blocks you receive are pulled together...I loved my fabric so much I sashed and bordered this small top with it too!  It was stippled with cream thread on top and a variegated orange-pink thread on the back!

Approx. 40" x 40"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This quilt was made using the twist and turn blocks.  I really liked the red fabric and decided to make it the center or focus fabric.  I sashed them in solid black or white.  I then meandered with red thread.  I think its really cute!

It's name came about because I started a job at a newspaper while I was making this quilt, so the old joke became the name of this quilt:D

This quilt was displayed at the '03 NC State Fair and won the 1st place ribbon for juvenile quilts at the 2004 North Florida Fair and 1st place at the 2005 Columbia County Fair.

Approx. 40" x 40"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

This was the actually fabric kit for my guild's paper piecing workshop.  To do something a little different, I quilted blades of grass in green metallic thread that was a favor at the guild's Day of Sharing.  The chick is "hiding" in the grass along with the Easter eggs:)

Approx. 11" x 15"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted

What to do with those extra logs?  I made 4 extra blocks for a Nifty Fifty swap.  The theme was black and white fabrics only.  Since all the blocks came out right, I had 4 extra blocks and decided to make a little quilt out of them.  I quilted the squares with variegated black and white thread.

Approx. 24" x 24"

Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted