Under The Sea

Fun, colorful, scrappy fish (and other creatures) swim around in this new baby quilt. This is the third quilt for this family, joining "Jungle Stars 2" and "On the Go!".

Give Peace A Chance

This quilt contains 98 origami-like cranes in 25 different fabrics, many of which are from Japan. It is comprised of 2,503 pieces. Click on the "Other Wonderful Quilts" link to see the pictures.
Here is the story that explains how the cranes relate to the name of the quilt:

The connection between origami (folded-paper) cranes and the hope for peace came about because of a young Japenese girl called Sadako Saski, who lived in Hiroshima. She was only two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on her city. Sadako - along with her mother, father, and brother - survived the blast, although her grandmother did not. Sadako became a healthy, active girl, a champion runner for her school class. But radiation can wreak its deadly effects for many years after its release, and Sadako was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 11. She spent many months in the hospital. While she was in the hospital, Sadako began folding paper cranes because, according to a Japanese story, a wish will come true if you fold a thousand paper cranes. Sadako very much wished to be well again, so she determinedly folded more than 1,000 cranes. But her wish did not come true and she died in 1955 at age 12. However, some of her cranes were used to line her casket; others were given to her friends. Her classmates decided to create a memorial to Sadako, wishing to remember their friend and her courage and kindness. A collection was begun, culminating in a statue in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, which was unveiled in 1958. At the top of the memorial is a figure of a girl holding up a large crane. Thus, folded paper-cranes came to symbolize the desire for peace in the world. At the foot of the statue are these words:

Something's Fishy

Newest quilt is a kaleidoscope quilt; 550 pieces, cut from a single piece of fabric, and arranged into hexagons. The border is the original fabric. You can see how the elements of the print combine to make new patterns when put together in hexagons. Click to view.

Cubes, cubes, cubes!

Here are two of my 3D quilts, "Impossible Triangle" and "3D Color Study".

Careful use of color values and placement gives a three-dimensional look and feel to these quilts.

They look difficult (if not impossible!) to make, yet both are done with all straight line seams. The top one is made out of equilateral triangles sewn in slanted columns.  The bottom one is made the same way, with the addition of the thin strips at the "edges" of the boxes.