Website Theme Quilt

     This quilt is the theme of the website. It was made for my grandson, Elliot, for his high school graduation in 2015. The centers of the 15 center blocks is genuine Japanese shibori given to me years earlier. I enjoyed seeing it in my fabric collection, and this was the perfect use for it.

Bed Size Quilt

     This is a bed sized quilt I made for a young girl who liked Native American stories and customs. The pictures were all printed on commercial fabric, and the background is strip pieced.

Wall Hanging 2003 Quilt Show

     This one is a wall hanging I made for a quilt show in 2003. I really like that spiral made of triangles, one piece sewn across two, then squared up. The roses were like those I made for Lin’s wedding dress and headpiece when she was married in 1988.

Chinese Braid Quilt

​     Chinese Braid quilts are tessellations of half hexagons with seam allowances added. You have to add the seam allowances after you make the half hexagon or it won’t go together right. I found it worthwhile to make templates and cut a lot of trapezoids in the colors I thought I’d use first. The sunset quilt has over 2000 trapezoids and took months to arrange on my two fleece-covered 4’x8’ insulation boards. But I sewed together a hundred pieces in an hour! I took the trapezoids off the board in a stack for each column. After I got started in the right direction, I just sewed #3 to 1 and 2, #4 to 2 and 3, and so on. When I sewed the columns together all the seam allowances were already lying opposite each other. As far as I know, the design was created by Barbara Caron from Minneapolis. I love designs that look complicated, but are actually very easy to execute.

Chinese Braid Quilt

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Chinese Braid Quilt

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Chinese Braid Quilt

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Simon The Sunburned Snorkeler Quilt
& Mermaid Doll

​     This quilt has a mermaid doll in the lower right corner along with beach items. Simon the Sunburned Snorkeler swims in the top water level. I’ve used this strategy several times of arranging strips of fabric in various widths across the design portion of the quilt. This piece was originally made for a contest using prefabricated dolls with very large feet. Hence the mermaid tail and the fins for snorkeling. It hung for years in the guest bathroom of the house we built. Now it hangs without the dolls in my bedroom, reminding me of Caribbean Island vacations.

Ethnic  Quilt

     The quilt top right is a hanging that demonstrates my fascination with commercial fabrics containing ethnic designs.

Christmas Quilt

     The Christmas quilt was initially made to photograph as a Christmas Card. I especially liked the animal prints that are outlined in red and shiny gold thread used in machine quilting.