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BOOKS I'VE AUTHORED: click here to go to the Books page


Crazy Quilting: The Complete Guide

Make and embellish a crazy quilt
The Magic of Crazy Quilting, Editions 1 and 2

Create jewelry using beads and wire.
Bead & Wire Art Jewelry

Motifs to embroider.
Motifs for Crazy Quilting

Make a crazy quilt by machine.
Crazy Quilts by Machine

Decorate your home with crazy quilting.
Crazy Quilt Decor

Make gifts and heirlooms out of fabrics.
Heirlooms & Gifts for Crazy Quilting

Create subtle embroideries.
Shadow Work Embroidery

Embroider using silk ribbons.
Silk Ribbon Embroidery

Design your own Sweater.
Design & Knit the Sweater of Your Dreams

Dragon Shawl silk quilt detail
Two views of the Dragon Shawl, silk thread embroideries on silk fabrics. See more views on the Quilt Gallery page.


What's new...

..for release April, 2008, Crazy Quilting: The Complete Guide. All new (not a new edition of The Magic of Crazy Quilting). More about this book on the Books page. Roll over the image to see the title page.

Crazy Quilting: The Complete Guide


...book review of The Complete Guide on CQMagOnline (see the Quilt Links page), an online crazy quilting magazine, in Volume 7, Issue 2.

... an expanded Quilt Projects page to include two new projects including the brooches in the photo below. Please contact me if there are other project ideas you'd like to see on this page (see Contact page).


...a mini crazy quilt for the Kreinik Company using their metal, metallic, and silk embroidery threads. The quilt is made of silk fabrics and features dimensional embroideries in detached and padded stitches with lots of metal highlights. It will be travelling to needlework and craft trade shows for a year. Roll your mouse over the image below for another detail of the quilt.Silk mini quilt detail.


...CQMagOnline (see the Quilt Links page), an online crazy quilting magazine, in Volume 6, Issue 4 is featuring my article, "Nine Reasons to Hand Patch a Crazy Quilt."


...article for $100,000 Quilting Challenge Magazine, Issue #2, 2007 (see the Quilt Links page). "The Wonders of Silk Crazy Quilting," tells how to use silk fabrics in making a crazy quilt. The photo below is a detail of the mini quilt made for the article.
Silk mini quilt detail.