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Ring Bearer Pillow with Ribbon Weaving
Featured in and on the cover of We Like Sewing, June 2025
Create a special keepsake for someone’s wedding day by using ribbon weaving to make a ring-bearer pillow! Ribbons can be in the wedding colors, all-white or a variety of pastel shades as shown here.
Patriotic 4th of July Table Runner
Featured in We Like Quilting, June 2025
This red, white and blue runner adds a festive touch to a 4th of July celebration! Made with just two fabrics and free-motion quilted swirls, it goes together relatively quickly and could make a nice hostess gift.
Summer Sun, Seas and Sand
Featured in We Like Quilting, June 2025
Portraying the warmth of the summer sun glistening on cool ocean waves lapping up on a golden beach, this throw quilt can be made from scrap fabrics or precut batik squares.
Beat the Heat Quilted Water Bottle Holder
Featured in McCall’s Quilting, Summer 2025
This colorful water bottle holder with Insul Bright batting keeps beverages cold during summer hikes and picnics. The front of the holder features foundation-pieced sun-rays and shade while the back has cool ocean water under a pastel summer sky. Appliqued leaves adorn both sides of the bottle.
Fluttering Floral Fantasy
Featured in and on the cover of We Like Quilting, April 2025
Delicate flowers and butterflies were created using raw-edge applique on a pale green background which was then quilted intensely with leaves, vines, plumes and pebbles. Colorful rhinestones enhanced the flowers, adding sparkle to the appliqued petals.
Fields of Free Motion
Featured in Love of Quilting Spring 2025
This design was inspired by childhood memories of walking in the beautiful gardens of the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Canada.
Between the rows of floral fabrics are intricate free-motion quilted motifs echoing the grace and beauty of the flowers.
Flowers Springing Up
Featured in McCall’s Quilting, Spring 2025
An abstract design of columns of flower petals and green leaves is created from a single pattern piece - a parallelogram! It’s the selection of vibrant colors popping against a black background that brings the design to life!
Valentine’s Day Apron
Featured in We Like Quilting, January 2025
This whimsical apron for Valentine’s Day features free-motion quilting on the big and heart-shaped pockets.
Smiling Snowmen Table Runner
Featured in Quick and Easy Quilts, Winter 2025
The snowmen made from raw-edge applique have brightly colored scarves and carrot noses, warming up a winter table.
The Compass Points Southwest
The colorful Southwest-themed horses inspired this queen-sized quilt, with their colors echoed in the mariner’s compass in the center. The compass was created using Robin Ruth’s strip-piecing method. The quilt was filled with dense free-motion quilting and zig-zag designs in the half-square triangles.
Mariner’s Compass baby quilt with free-motion quilting
A Bevy of Baby Quilts!
Baby quilt with transportation fabric and central motif and borders done with free-motion quilting.
Baby quilt made with licensed character Dumbo fabric and coordinating colors
Hawaii Beauty, 2023
Based on the New York Beauty block, made with foundation piecing in the colors of royal purple orchids and the foliage of Hawaii
Chrome Rhino in Color, 2022
Raw-edge applique done in motifs similar to a coloring book page are surrounded by free motion quilting
Arizona Canyons, 2022
Diamonds in the hues of Sedona’s red rocks and Arizona’s state gemstone, turquoise, border each large square containing the colors of Antelope Canyon.
Baby quilt for Yamini, 2021
Solid pastel blocks provide a canvas for intense free motion quilting in each square, tied together by the bright floral borders
Sagrada Familia Spectrum, 2021
The spectrum of colors from the stained glass windows of the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, Spain are captured in the Pioneer Braid pattern
Tropical Flowers, 2020
Bright tropical prints are set in the Attic Windows block on point to give a 3D effect
Watercolor Quilt (designed by Deanna Spingola), 2001
Fabrics were selected for their color and value to create the blended, smudgy look of watercolor paints
Album Quilt, 1989
Hand appliqued flowers and hand quilted motifs fill this album quilt
Baby Quilt,, 2022
Free motion quilting in white thread makes the quilting motifs stand out
Arizona Red Rocks and Turquoise, 2022
Batiks in the colors of red rocks and turquoise set in the Attic Windows block are densely quilted with free motion techniques
Dream Big, 2020
The Dream Big panel by Hoffman Fabrics is filled with intense free motion quilting in each petal.
Coat of Arms Quilt, for the Medical School of the University of Ottawa, Canada 2019
Featuring hand and machine applique, fabric painting, free motion embroidery and embellishments
Bear and Balloons, 1994
The pastel colors of the bears and balloons are echoed in the blind-stitch appliqued hearts and flowers. Beads, ribbon weaving hearts and a pleated border embellish the quilt, along with a bear smiling at the viewer
Rainbow Braid, 1990
A rainbow of color forms a V-shaped pattern set in the Pioneer Braid pattern