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Exhibited AQS Quilt Show - Lancaster 2010.

2nd Place Traditional, Wall, Mixed - Road to California 2010.

Exhibited at PIQF 2009.

Best Interpretation of Theme: “High Hopes”  Denver National Quilt Festival IV 2009.

Honorable Mention: 40th Annual NQA 2009.

Exhibited atAQS Quilt Expo in Knoxville 2009.

Sweet Scents at Sunrise

Juried into the IQA "Sky's the Limit 2008" contest.

Exhibited at:International Quilt Festival/Houston 2008.

International Quilt Festival/Chicago 2009.

International Quilt Festival/Long Beach 2009.

Explore Space

Exhibited as part of the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo exhibit:  Explorations in Quilting, From October 1, 2009 - April 10, 2010.

Exhibited at 40th Annual NQA Quilt Show 2009.

Exhibited at Denver National Quilt Festival 2009.

Exhibited at PIQF 2008.

Exhibited at the AQS Quilt Expo Nashville 2008.

3rd Place, Traditional Wall Pieced - Road to California 2008.

Honorable Mention - 2008 AQS 2nd Annual Online Quilt Contest.

Exhibited at the AQS Quilt Show & Contest in Paducah, 2008, as part of the exhibit for the Annual Online Quilt Contest.

Shifting Focus

2nd Place - Elvis Quilt Challenge -Big Horn Quilts - www.bighornquilts.com

Burning Love

1st Place Professional Best of Show -San Mateo County Fair 2007.

3rd Place, Traditional Wall Mixed - Road to California 2007.

Exhibited at PIQF 2007.

Checkerboard and Chocolate Stars

2nd Place Professional - San Mateo County Fair 2007.

Exhibited at Denver National Quilt Festival 2007.

Merisier

Exhibited at PIQF - 2007 .

Exhibited at Road to California 2008.

Amoeba, Amoeba

Interview Quilt for the Quilters’ S.O.S. - Save Our Stories for the Alliance of American Quilts - 95051-DAR004Davis.

Exhibited at Wisconsin Quilt Expo 2009.

Exhibited at the Museum of the American Quilter's Society in Paducah, KY, in "Quilts from the Pacific Rim," January 25 - March 25, 2008.

1st Place Traditional Wall Pieced - Road to California 2006.

Exhibited at Denver National Quilt Festival 2006.

Exhibited at PIQF 2005.

1st Place, Most Creative - Moda Challenge - Big Horn Quilts 2004.

It’s Never Pointless

Grand Prize Winner - Morning Garden/Alex Anderson Challenge P&B Textiles - 2005.

Exhibited at Road to California 2006.

Exhibited at the Denver National Quilt Festival 2006.

Explosion of Delight
A Different Direction
Magnolias At Twilight

Exhibited at Wisconsin Quilt Expo  2009.

Honorable Mention: Traditional Wall Mixed, Road to California 2009.

Exhibited at AQS Nashville 2008.

Exhibited at PIQF 2008 and as part of the New Quilts of Northern California exhibit.

Best Interpretation of Theme: “Quilting with Altitude” Denver National Quilt Festival III 2008.

Exhibited at AQS Knoxville in July 2010.

Exhibited at Road to California 2010 as part of www.TheQuiltShow.com exhibit.

Exhibited at PIQF and as part of the NQNC exhibit 2009.

1st Place Best Professional Quilt - San Mateo County Fair 2009.

 
Lunafiori
Mosaic Melodrama
Launch Pad to Success My panel for the Dream Rocket project. To learn more, www.thedreamrocket.com. Exhibited at EarlyWorks Children’s Museum May 1, 2010-August 1, 2010. The Dream Rocket aims to connect art and education through a global collaborative initiative. It will inspire participants to consider, express, and explore their dreams for a better future using Dream Themes such as Energy, Space, Peace, Science, Recycling, etc. The Wrapping of the Saturn V Rocket will recognize the power of global collaboration, and in turn, The Dream Rocket hopes to inspire individuals all over the World not only to dream, but also to recognize their power to pursue their dreams.http://www.thedreamrocket.comshapeimage_22_link_0

My three entries into the 2010 New from Old Contest sponsored by the Alliance for American Quilts.  These are 16” x 16” quilts.  Midwest Makeover - the center quilt won an “Honorable Mention.”  The quilts will be auctioned off on E-bay in the fall. To learn more click here.

Hand appliqued with some machine embroidery and machine quilting.

Exhibited at the NQA Show in June 2010.

Exhibited at Denver National Quilt Festival 2010.

This quilt is on the cover of the puzzle.

This was made of 11 orphan blocks I found in one of my drawers.  It is called Mosaic Melodrama because of all the various misfortunes that befell it before completion.

Exhibited at NQA Show in June 2010.

Exhibited at AQS Knoxville in July 2010.

Exhibited at Denver National Quilt Festival 2010.

Some of my quilts have found their way onto a puzzle from Springbox.  The photographer was Rachel Perry.  They are available in stores now.

It Happens Every Year

Our family does not have many traditions, but we do have one that we continue every year.  We slog through the countryside and cut down our own Christmas tree.  We do this rain, sleet, sun, or hail.  If I suggest we head to the local store, to select a pre-cut tree, I hear weeping and wailing, “We can’t do that!”  So, every year, we jump into the truck and head off for the hills.  Why do we do this?  Because it is a tradition, because it brings our family together at the holidays, and because there is nothing better than the smell of a fresh-cut tree, a few tired kids, and a cup of hot cocoa at the end of the day.  My quilt represents our tradition.  I choose a Star of Bethlehem for the center and surrounded it with trees from the forest.   The hearts represent my husband, my two boys, and myself.  The graphic nature of the design and the border are a nod to our Scandinavian roots.

DAR American Heritage – 1st Place State Level  DAR American Heritage – 2nd Place Southwest Division