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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

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

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.

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

Crème Brulee is one of seven featured patterns in Alex Anderson's latest book "Neutral Essentials" from C&T Publishing 2007.  The quilt is also pictured on the back cover.

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

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

Exhibited at PIQF 2007

Hot Flashes Out of the Blue

Woody Knudsen Memorial Master Quilter Award - San Mateo County Fair  2007

Merisier

2nd Place Professional - San Mateo County Fair 2007

Exhibited at Denver National Quilt Festival 2007




Exhibited at PIQF - 2007

Exhibited at Road to California 2008.

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

Featured in AQS Book, 100 Tips From Award Winning Quilter's by Ann Hazelwood.

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

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

Exhibited at Wisconsin Quilt Expo  2009

Honorable Mention: Traditional Wall Mixed, Road to California 2009

Can be seen in the AQS 2010 Quilt Art Engagement Calendar

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

Will be 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

 
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_25_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.

One of my latest quilts.  Hand appliqued with some machine embroidery and machine quilting.

Will be exhibited at the NQA Show in June 2010.

Exhibited at Denver National Quilt Festival 2010.

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.

Will be exhibited at the NQA Show in June 2010.

Will be 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.