Title: Feathered Feathered Star
Event: Dallas Quilt Show 2005
Location: Dallas , Texas
Award: Honorable Mention
Event: Quilt Plano 2005
Location: Plano , Texas
Award: 3rd place - Pieced

I'm still in my trapunto phase, maybe I won't ever leave it. I quilted this feathered star by adding trapunto feathers on the borders and in the light colored background areas, thus the repetitive name Feathered Feathered Star.

Title: Sheer Madness
Event: Quilt Plano 2005
Location: Plano , Texas
Award: 3rd place - Wall

This is the shadow trapunto technique, the top whole cloth fabric is a voile which is sheer. It is trapunto with white batting. The next layer is an olive green cotton material which shows through to create the shadow effect. Another layer of batting and a back is added then all peices are quilted.

Title: Kaleidoscope Broken Star
Event: Dallas Quilt Show 2004
Location: Dallas , Texas
Award: Honorable Mention
Event: Quilt Plano 2004
Location: Plano , Texas
Award: 2nd place - Pieced

I have always wanted to make a lone star quilt and I finally did. It was a challenge getting all the points to lay flat. I designed the trapunto corners and even put trapunto in all of the diamonds in a continuous curve quilting pattern.

Title: Field of Flowers 2003
Event: Dallas Quilt Show 2003
Location: Dallas , Texas
Award: Members' Choice
Event: Quilt Plano 2003
Location: Plano , Texas
Award: 2nd place - Pieced and Judges Ribbon

I died cotton batting yellow for the trapunto. The back details all the birds, flowers and bugs I quilted.

Title: Fireworks
Event: Dallas Quilt Show 2002
Location: Dallas , Texas
Award: Past Presidents’ Choice
Event: Machine Quilters Showcase
Location: Springfield , Illinois
Award: Teachers Choice Award

I started this quilt in 1997 when I took a class called "Creative Curves using Ellipse Rulers". After the class the top sat in the closet for 2 years (work, kids, no time, you know the story). I pulled it back out and finished the center area and discovered I didn't have enough of the blue fabric to complete the top. I searched and searched; I used internet fabric searches; Friends searched, but the fabric was not to be found. It was either back to the closet again, or I had to get creative. That is when I decided to use the flag border to separate the marbled blue center from the solid blue corner-border fabric. To quilt the peice, I used many different metallic threads and tried to emulate actual fireworks. Then I added crystals to give it just a little extra spark. I used a heavy bright yellow thread to quilt the words to the Star Spangled Banner around the flag border, and finished it off with a bright red binding. I completed the quilt on July 4, 2001 almost four years after the start, the quilt was complete. The quilt was already special to me, but took on additional significance after the 9/11 tragedy.

Title: Indecision 2000
Event: Dallas Quilt Show 2000
Location: Dallas , Texas
Award: Past Presidents’ Choice
Event: Quilt Plano 2001
Location: Plano , Texas
Award: 2nd place - Pieced, less than 80 inches wide, long arm machine quilted

I had started this Red, White and Blue star quilt when the controversial 2000 presidential election was held.  The name was just natural.  The 3-D effect is trapunto which is prominent in the feathering and multi-band rope on the border and the curly-Q design in the red field blocks. 

Title: I.C. Snowflakes
Event: Quilt Plano 2001
Location: Plano , Texas
Award: Honorable Mention - Pieced, greater than 80 inches wide, long arm machine quilted
The I.C. in the name can stand for Irish Chain, or "I See" since the white fields and border are trapunto snowflakes.

Title: Morning Sunlight
Event: EDS “On your own time” Art Show, September 1996
Location: Dallas, Texas
Awards: Overall Peoples Choice, Peoples Choice for “Crafts and Multimedia”, and Dallas Business Committee for the Arts “Best of Show”.
While visiting a local quilt shop, I saw a quilt that looked more like a painting than a quilt.  I quickly bought books on water color quilts and of course shopped for lots and lots of small pieces of many different fabrics.  My husband and I spent hours cutting these 2” squares and laying the top out.  It was very addicting, sort of like putting together a very large puzzle. While in this process, the selection for the outside border became obvious very quickly, but the transition border was impossible to decide.  Finally, I started with a light fabric and several colors of fabric paint and created my own.   Since this was prior to my long arm purchase, I quilted this on my regular sewing machine.