Princess Feather - Winner of Best of Show, Dyersville, IA Quilt show in 2001.

This Quilt is going to the AQS Quilt Show in Paducah in 2002.

Detail of Quilting

Chicago Royal

Five years and thousand of stitches later I finally finished Chicago Royal in July of this year. I have entered it in two quilt shows and so far it has won a first and a Best of Show. The pattern for this quilt is from a book "Great American Quilts of 1994" and was made by Penny Wortman. I made some changes to the original block and setting, plus I designed a different border. I also changed the name from Crossed Tulip Variation to Chicago Royal, which is the name of one of my red daylilies.

This Quilt went to the AQS Quilt Show in Paducah in 2001.
Detail of Quilting
Detail of Quilting
Detail of Border

Democratic Rose

(Also called Whig Rose.) If you make four of the 36" centers in the wallhanging and add borders, you would have a bed size quilt. I added the sawtooth edge and designed the border for the 36" block.
 Detail of Sawtooth Edge & Border

Snowbound

A fun and easy project to do. Finding the right background may be challenge. 
Detail of Snowbound

Summer in Vermont

One of my favorite wall hangings. I had all the fabrics I used in my fabric collection. There are also Spring, Fall and Winter patterns available and I might do the winter one yet. 
Detail of Summer in Vermont

Winter Star

A perfect project to hang for Christmas and on into Winter. With all the movement and design in this piece, it may seem very difficult, but it is really quite simple. I plan to use this pattern to make a Millennium wallhanging. 

Noah's Ark

Noah and Mrs. Noah should be quite happy as the sun has come out and there's a rainbow around the border.  I have made three of these for my grandchildren and need to make one more for a baby gift. I think I'll do the fourth one in pastels, a blue camel, yellow lion,  and pink giraffe and etc.

Poppy

A very difficult project. One flower has 13 curvy pieces. Definitely not for a beginner. To get the right color for shading, I used the wrong side of some of the fabrics. 
Detail of Poppy

Seed Packet

 The pattern for this was for four individual wallhangings, but I combined all four together. A fun piece to do, not too difficult. 

Log Cabin

This pattern is from Mary Ellen Hopkins' book "A Log Cabin Notebook." She says that you can substitute a log cabin block whenever a pattern calls for half square triangles. Neat idea!! I quilted this piece while my husband was in the hospital following surgery. Everyone was so interested in what I was doing, that my husband was lying in bed thinking, "but what about me."