My Work

This is a quilt for Levi, his first big boy bed quilt. I hope he likes it.

This quilt is made from lots of my scraps designed by Jane Sassaman

Chevron

This black, white, and gray quilt is made of half square triangles.

Two Fabric Strip Quilt,

This lap size quilt was made with fabric designed by Jane Sassaman. It is two fabrics, cut in strips and pieced together with a simple black border.

These two quilts were each made with a white sheet. Both are twin size.

I love this bright quilt. It is all triangles, outlined in black. The leftover triangles are on the back.

Black, gray, and brown scraps with white in the middle.

Washington State Square
72"x89"
Hand and machine pieced, machine quilted

I started the first square for this quilt when we left Washington in 1985. I like
the look of this pattern, even though it has a lot of set in triangles. The first squares I did all by hand. As the years went by and I added new squares, I started to machine piece the middles. I think the last few were all machine pieced, even the set-in triangles! It was machine quilted by Kristen Hoftyzer.

Flying Geese
88”x102”

Machine pieced, hand and machine quilted

I saw a picture of this quilt in a magazine. It was in the Living History Farm in
Des Moines, IA. I liked the pattern and the colors and decided to try to duplicate it. All of the triangles were made with the Square in a Square ruler which makes the edges on all the flying geese units’ bias edges. It went
together anyway and I love the end result. I started hand quilting this quilt
and it is the last hand quilting I did. I finished it with machine quilting.

I have been digging into my small scraps bin and making quilts. This is the first quilt I have made using improv piecing techniques. Very fun.

This quilt was a memory quilt for my daughter. The photos are of her travels during college. The fabrics are 2 1/2" batik strips.

Baby Quilt made for a little girl. Machine applique and machine quilted.

Laura Lou Bag

These quilt squares are machine embroidered Children and Sunday School songs.

This is a baby quilt that I made for my second grandson. It's called Dancing in the Moonlight.

This modern quilt is my first attempt at the new look. It's a twin size quilt and looks great on the bed!

close-up of Fan Quilt

Grandmother’s Fan with Floral Wreaths

Finished Nov., 2011

66”x86”
Hand applique, machine quilted

We used to make a fan block for each president of the quilt
group. Back in 1987, I decided to do a few ahead. But I liked the block and playing with the colors so much that I decided to make a quilt. After I had a lot of blocks made, to make it different I put an applique in each corner that would come together as a wreath when the blocks were sewn together. I love scrap quilts and was pleased with how this one turned out. It only took 24 years to finish it!