A"yellow brick road" pattern quilt for grandaughter Caroline - machine pieced and machine quilted. The fabric in the border is the same as the bed skirt. You will see this quilt again in the monthly birthday photos of our grandaughter I'll post soon.
"Alaska Animals" for Caroline - embroidered animals, all found in Alaska, in snowball blocks, alternating with nine-patch blocks. I hand embroidered the animals, machine pieced the blocks, and hand quilted the layers together. This quilt was so much fun to work on ... the otter on his back is my favorite block.
"Prodigal Summer" - a table runner made using the ancient Isle of Man Roof Tile folded log cabin technique. I first learned of this technique from quilter Pepper Cory when she visited my quilt guild in 2007, then found instructions in a Jane Hall book. Then my book group had a challenge last year to make a quilted object representing one of the books we have read. I chose "Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver ... elements of the runner represent the three story lines in the book. I hand pieced and hand quilted the entire project.
"Crumbs" - a small quilt started in a class by Bonnie Hunter taught at Springfield QU in January 2009. Bonnie taught us how to use all those small scraps - crumbs - to create small crazy-pieced blocks. After all, those scraps did cost money and throwing them away would be like throwing away money. This quilt is also machine pieced and machine quilted, and has been given to a child in the Fairfax Hospital NICU. 
"Circa 1970" - wall hanging started in a class with Linda Fiedler in May 2008. Linda taught us her applique method. I interpreted her design as a representation of the bottles I had lined up on my windowsill in a college dorm room many years ago (I guess the title gives away my approximate age!). This piece is hand appliqued, and hand quilted.
This "Trip Around My Garden" large lap quilt was made of floral fabric squares and four-patches received in the Springfield QU swap in May 2007. Thank you to Elli Molstad for managing the fabric swap. I machine pieced and hand quilted this quilt. The hand quilting is in straight diagonal lines in a trellis-like design. 
A year ago one of my quilting friends bought color-coordinated jelly rolls of 16 color-coordinated strips of fabric. We each drew one of the rolls at random from a bag and were challenged to make a quilted object from those fabrics plus one other fabric. I drew the red fabric roll and designed the quilt below, "Red Pinwheels," using elements of Annette Ornelas' "Peeled Back Patchwork" techniques. I machine quilted the quilt in an overall meander design, and the quilt now resides in the pile for a future grandchild.
Lastly, this quilt was made for Mikayla Mann, the new daughter of our friends Sara and Nate. The design is "Yellow Brick Road" by Atkinson Designs and is a wonderful quick quilt to make using just six fat quarters of fabric with little to no waste. Again, this is machine pieced and machine quilted.
The two baby sweaters are knit of "Esmeralda Spring" - an acrylic yarn I bought at a shop in Damascus, Syria in the mid 1980's when we were assigned to the US Embassy there. I had visions of knitting myself a narrowly striped vest of the blue, cream and gray yarn which is a fingering weight - what was I thinking?! So the yarn has been "aging" in for over 20 years, clearly the oldest yarn in my collection. I'll never make the vest so have decided to use the yarn double- stranded to make baby sweaters. There's enough blue and white yarn leftover to make another of this Baby Jiffy Knit sweater pattern (http://wishingiwasknitting.blogspot.com) and I think I'll use the gray to make the smallest size Wallaby hooded sweater. 
