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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 in pastel colors

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 quilt in attic windows 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
Coat of arms quilt for University of Ottawa Medical School

Watercolor Quilt (designed by Deanna Spingola), 2001

Fabrics were selected for their color and value to create the blended, smudgy look of watercolor paints

Hand appliqued album quilt with hand-quilting

Album Quilt, 1989

Hand appliqued flowers and hand quilted motifs fill this album quilt

Baby quilt with free motion quilting and elephants

Baby Quilt,, 2022

Free motion quilting in white thread makes the quilting motifs stand out

Quilt in colors of red rocks and turquoise

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

Quilt with bears and balloons

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

Pioneer braid quilt in rainbow colors

Rainbow Braid, 1990

A rainbow of color forms a V-shaped pattern set in the Pioneer Braid pattern