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	This is Elsa Marie Christ's quilt. She's my new great-niece and her mother, Lisa, loves "all creatures great and small" so I gathered critters in my fabric collection and centered them in shadow boxes.
	I've made two of these quilt tops for our kid's charity. It's a Fons and Porter pattern called "Sticks and Stones". It's a great stash reduction project, in that it uses unrelated fabrics in smaller amounts and allows using up odd and ends.
	I developed this pattern to use a large donation of bug print fabrics to our guild. I made 5 kits in addition to this top, for others to sew. I patterned it on others I'd seen, but just from memory. It's easy to sew but there are lots of small pieces to cut for the corners.
	I've made two of this pattern, both in 2003, one for a silent auction, and one as a gift for a good quilting friend. The blue pieces were ones she was prepared to throw away, but I scavenged them. It's the traditional "Ocean Waves" pattern.
	One of a pair of twin bed quilts made from a pattern called "No Scraps". The blocks went together quickly, but it took a while to come up with a setting that used both blocks in one quilt. We'll use them in our guest room. I'm machine quilting both tops.
	This a simple 9-patch and snowball. I wanted to use up lots of small floral fabrics I didn't like too much, but it turned out better than I'd hoped. I tied it for the guild I belong to that gives quilts to children in shelters and other bad situations.
	This is a wall quilt for my friend, Julie's, kitchen. It's about 20" square. The tea cups and tea pots are from printed fabric, then appliquéd on the squares. It's hand quilted with vines in the borders.
	A table runner I made from a pattern book using fusible appliqué. It's for the 2nd Chance fundraiser silent auction Aug. 1, 2003.
	I made this top in a "mystery" class of our Quilt Dreamers guild in a little over 6 hours. The borders took another afternoon. We'll tie these tops for the kids in shelters, etc. It's another way of generating quilts for those kids. It was our July program and taught by a member.
	Here's another top for children in need. The one turquoise fabric has fish and shells. I've used fabrics donated to the guild for much of this, plus scraps from home. An exercise in measuring as much as anything else.
	This easy quilt was made for my best friend, Julie's, daughter's wedding gift in May 2003. I started it in a one day retreat at a friend's apartment meeting room, and I finished it in one week. It was professionally machine quilted by another friend. To see a close up, click here.
	Here is a quilt top for the children. The fabric is from the group collection. I made it in one afternoon. The fabrics are all Monopoly themed.
	This is our granddaughter Elizabeth's new play quilt. I pieced the top while we were in Alabama this winter. I machine quilted it myself, not too well. She loves to point to the things on the quilt. To see a close up, click here.
	This Christmas quilt features redwork designs with a pieced wreath in the center. Hand embroidered in gold metallic thread. I made it for my sister, Sue, and it won a blue ribbon at the county fair in 2003. It was a delayed 2002 Christmas gift.
	Bob's 2002 Christmas gift, because his childhood quilt just plain wore out. When I saw how the stars at the block intersections were so graphic, I thought it would please him and it did. It was machine quilted by my friend Julann. I called it "What's black and white and red all over" after that childhood riddle.
	I made this table runner to go with the tassels, which I'd bought first. I machine quilted it in gold thread. It's hand appliqued and looks great on our new big dining table.
	The members of my Stitch 'n Bitch group each made a version of these Santa blocks. I added the corner blocks myself to complete it to the size I wanted it to be. Hand appliqued and professionally machine quilted by Julann.
	My friend Janet Schuetze, gave me this top which she embroidered when her kids were small. It was my birthday present from her when Di was expecting Elizabeth. I quilted it that spring and we kept it here for when she visited.
	This is a double bed size quilt. The blocks started in a class I took at a quilt show in the late 1990s. It's a total scrap quilt, even the binding is strung together left-overs from other quilts. It was quilted by Julann Windsperger, my friend and professional long-arm quilter.
	A quilt I made for sister Dot's guest room. It's from a Thimbleberries pattern, but her color picks - yellows, greens and sky blue. See corner and close up views.
	A paper pieced pattern of a meadowlark, with appliquéd feet. It's about 16" square, and the border fabric is my favorite part of this quilt. A meadowlark's is the first bird song I learned when I came to the Midwest. I made this about 1999.
	The first quilt I made after my transplant. It's a Helen Thorn pattern called Minnesota summer. Made in fall of 1995. I did some hand quilting mixed with free-form machine quilting. The fireworks are embroidered with variable dyed floss. There are beads and buttons added for fun.
	I bought 11 antique blue and white blocks at an antique shop, then added to them with fabric I got at an estate sale, and some more reproduction fabrics until I had enough blocks to set in zigzags. The red fabric looks like what would have been used in the 1890s era of the original blocks. Finished in 1995 while I was waiting in the hospital thanks to my friend, Janet Schuetze.
	This a "charm quilt", where no 2 fabrics are the same. I traded squares for many. It's hand pieced and hand quilted in Japanese motifs, from a coloring book of Japanese designs. Made in 1983.
	This is a very early quilt, probably early in the 1980s. I made it for Steve. The various block patterns came from books or booklets. I designed the loon and the flying Canada goose myself, and designed the setting of the blocks. It's about 70" by 50".
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