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Space 4 Rent

Another wonky houses and free-pieced letters quilt featuring alien fabrics. Quilting was done with perle cotton.

Uploaded on Sep 18, 2006

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Christmas Houses

This was the first improvisational house quilt I made, using the instructions in Gwen Marston's Liberated Quiltmaking.

Uploaded on Sep 18, 2006

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Terms of Endearment

This quilt features many of the terms of endearment used for me, my husband, and our four cats. The...

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Dear Santa

Dear Santa We've been good. The words "hint hint" were quilted in the big blocks of red....

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Noel Sampler

This is the second free-pieced sampler I made. Why is it named Noel?

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Merry Penguins

This top showcases a great fabric featuring penguins.

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Hugs and Kisses

This was the first quilt I made with X and O blocks. The border is quilted with free-hand fans, but...

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Hot Crazy Love

I randomly pieced the letters L-O-V-E and formed them into 4-patch blocks for this top. It's hard to read, but I like that.

Uploaded on Sep 18, 2006

Fruit Punch

Another quilt top made with X and O blocks - Hugs and Kisses

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Take the Leap

This quilt was designed as a way to introduce people to free-pieced letters. It uses just the letters...

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Happy Halloween

These were the first free-pieced letters I ever made, they spell out Happy Halloween. I made them after all the improvisational houses

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Halloween Faces

This is one piece of material in the middle, with free-hand fan quilting.

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Dear Mummy

More free-pieced letters, these ones looking like something in a ransom note on tv. It...

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Bad to the Bone

I made this in May 2001. It was originally supposed to be a block in a much larger quilt, but I loved...

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American Houses 2003

Wonky houses in red, white and blue, with the word America up in the corner.

Uploaded on Sep 18, 2006

Alphabet Sampler

This was the first free-pieced letter sampler I made after figuring out that I could make letters this way

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Alien Invasion

Liberated Stars a la Gwen Marston plus free-pieced letters which say: Alien Invasion coming soon to a planet near you

Uploaded on Sep 18, 2006