Tropical Breeze

How unusual! A baby quilt made with Batiks! But why not? I used the colors of the rainbow (well, 6 of them) in light and dark shades for each. Each of the 12 squares has a light and dark pair (or dark and light) starting with the center block, and then other light / dark complimentary colors. The binding is made from strips of all 12 fabrics. Time to click!

Mauve Bag

Another striped bag....this one is for my Aunt Elynor.

Tote Bag #1

OK....yes...this is not a quilt, nor is it even quilted at all! But people have been asking for strong tote bags and I was given this pattern so I made it.
It is really easy and quick (only 7 pieces!), has 2 big pockets, and is strong enough to hold books, a lap top, or lots of sewing supplies (but not your machine!).
Click here or find it in the folder "Other Non-quilted Items".

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.

Boxing Match

Another quilt combining 3D cubes, lots of colors and shades, and the play of light and shadows.

The quilt is designed as if the light is pointing up from below the center. Thus, the middle of each cube has the lightest value.

The name of the piece is a pun: They are "boxes" and each pair "matches".  So: "Boxing Match"!

The quilting was done as free-motion, matching the color-value in each cube's face. Almost invisible from the front; very interesting on the back!

For sale: 31" x 23"  Wall hanging  $100

Lighter Than Air

A sky filled with rainbow-colored hot air balloons!!

And rainbow-colored thermals to keep them aloft forever!!!!

For sale: 37" x 40" Wall hanging (no sleeve) or child's quilt  $150

Pinwheel Patch

Curl up in front of your fireplace with this quilt portraying leaves falling in Autumn. Some of them are even falling off the edge of the quilt! But not to worry: you won't have to rake up any of the 2,760 pieces!

For sale: 72" x 60" Large lap quilt or bed cover  $200