Dad and Jackie's Texas Star Quilt

This was my first machine strip pieced quilt.  I created the top in 1998 in just a few days (my family did not know when I'd emerge!) and over the years since then I would hand quilt it as I could.  It's a queen sized quilt, and I didn't get very far, as life was very very full of single parenthood from 2000 on.  Finally, last year, as I was clearing items out of the house I was about to sell, I came across the quilt once again.  It was time to finish it and give it to it's rightful owners.  My mother took it on to finish and took it to a pro, and FINALLY I could give it to my dad and step mother.  So, in Idaho, on the very first part of our Honeymoon this past summer.  I still really like the color scheme I chose for it, and love the pieced  borders.

Ball 50th Anniversary Quilt

This quilt is the first I have made with photos printed directly onto the fabric for the quilt.  Such fun!

A cherished gift for my brand new in-laws, Bill and Joan Ball, created during the spring semester of my first year in pharmacy school.

Gee's Bend Quilt

The kit for this quilt was a wedding present from our friends, Paul and Marge.  Marge is a quilter and was very excited to provide this great pattern and wonderful hand-dyed cotton for my project.  I managed to piece it together through the first half of the first semester of my second year in pharmacy school at Creighton University.  Some days I would only spend 15 minutes on piecing, but I did complete it in a reasonable amount of time. 

This is the first quilt I've ever hired out for machine quilting.  I had quilted Richard's parents' quilt with my machine, and it was a pain.  The gal I hired has an enormous free-arm quilting machine in her front room, and was very happy to quilt it for me.  I chose the quilting design and thread, and let her do her work.  A week later it was done (which is FAR faster than it would have taken me) and all I needed to do was finish with the binding.

It is not a design or colors I would have necessarily chosen for myself, however, I thoroughly enjoyed piecing it together as a brain break from studying.