This is a quilt I made from a kit I purchased a few years ago. I love all the various colors in this quilt. It will be a bedspread for my daughters bed.

Liza is grown. She is careering while she waits for Mr Right to come along. When she comes home at the end of a long day at work she likes to collapse on her bed and spend time with her collie Corrie. At one time she had a lovely white duvet cover that had embroidered flowers on it. It turned out to be VERY impractical. This will be much more servicable and won't show smudges like the white one did. And at the same time be pretty. She and Corie will be much happier with this.

My Garden of Grandkids

I have been blessed with 20 grandkids. They are all wonderful people. Here are some snaps of some of them cross country skiing.

Josh & his quilts

Josh and his quilts. Josh loves the quilts and especially his. He takes his quillow everywhere he goes and loves to rollin his big quilt. Josh did all the photography of my quilts for me. He is a wonderful young man who excells in school and in the many things he undertakes.

Christmas Quilts

CHRISTMAS is an exciting time of year at our house. We are all Christmas fanatics. I have made many quilted items for our home to use during the Christmas Season. Several years ago I decided to make a Christmas Quilt each year. Here are some of them.

This is the 2006 quilt-- I havenot quiltedit as yet.

The quilt to the right I made two of. One for my sister and one for myself for Christmas 2000.

Beautiful Table Runners

Here are three table runners I have made-- they are all the same pattern but different fabrics.

James & his quilt

This is James and the quilt I made him. I am raising James and his younger brother Josh. James has turned in his papers to serve a mission for our Church. We will be excited to find out where he is going. He will be gone 2 years.

Fat Quarters Abounding

This is another lap quilt that I made entirely from Fat Quarters-- except the background. I had to be careful to cut the fat quarters carefully to ensure that I would have enough fabric. You may have noticed that all my quilts have rounded corners. I do this because I wanted a trademark and because I really don't enjoy making mitered corners. Sometimes I make fans for the corners like in this quilt. I have been machine quilting for several years now and really like the results.

Grandkids & Quilts

My grandkids and my quilts are all tangled in my heart. Our oldest grandchild is a girl-- Carrie-- she is grown now and married. When she was on the way I attended a quilt class back East where we were living . This was supposed to be a wall hanging but when class started three of the four students were expecting our first grandchildren so we added borders and made baby quilts. This was an applique and reverse applique class and I had such fun making this. The quilt is hand quilted except for the navy border which is tied with cotton thread. Here are some pictures of Carrie then and now with her husband Joseph.

Fat Quarters & Mysteries!

The quilt above is a Fat Quarter Quilt.I found a few fat quarters in a print that I absolutely loved. Unfortunately I couldn't find enough to do a big quilt with. So I found some fabrics with two of the colors of the print and made this quilt. It is lap sized and soo pretty. I used the blue for the backing.

The quilt on the right is a quilt that I made in an all night mystery quilt class at our local quilt shop. We chose a print and then two other colors to go with it. I chose blue and off white. We did the quilt one page at a time and couldn't go on to the next page until all in the class had finished the instructions on a page. The backing is the blue in the quilt.

Labor of Love

This is a variation of a block called Salt Lake City. I made this quilt for my husband to have in the hospital when he went for his chemo treatments.

Jacob's Ladder Variation

This is a variation of a Jacobs Ladder. All three fabrics are the same print. You can see this in the lower photo. I made this top before we left the East to move West. I call it our Pioneer Quilt. Our "covered wagon" was a Ryder truck that we moved our collie kennel west in.

My Husband's favorite

This was one of my husbands favorites. The 9 patches were done from odds and ends that I had and the blue back ground was what was left from making a quilt for my oldest grandson, Robert.

My Gardens

Gardens have been a part of my life since I was tiny. My mom would put my carriage out in the garden for nap time and soon I was toddling around in the gardens of my Grandmothers and my Mom. I love the smell of the garden and loved to follow my Dad around in his veggie garden when I was growing up. I loved to pick peas and beans andpull carrotts and eat hem right there in the garden. No matter where we have lived I have always grown at least tomatoes and cucumbers.

There are many kinds of gardens and as I grew older I planted some of them in my life.

My religion is of utmost importance as a garden in my life. Wothout it I would not be who I am and I would not appreciate all the things this world has offered me.

My husband, children and grandchildren are my most important garden. No work that we ever do on this earth is more important than the work that we will do within our families. Nothing is more important than my 5 children and 20 grandchildren.

M y veggie and flower gardens are a big part of my life and I love the early morning hours that I spend in the different areas of my gardens.

One of the gardens of my life that I thoroughly enjoy are the quilts that I make-- they are a garden of their own. I live to quilt and spend many hours piecing and then quilting quilts. Interestingly enough I have peiced more quilt tops than I have quilted. So this year has been dedicated to quilting the tops I already have. i still have a ways to go but so far this year I have quilted 5 big quilts.

Another kind of garden is the garden of genealogy. I have been wandering down the paths searching for my ancestors since I was 16. I love this pass time and wile away many hours in this endevour.

Another is my garden of animals. We raise collies and they are such a joy in many ways.