Some of the quilts I made this past year........

This is the quilt I made in 1999-2000 with my daughter's class for their principal. The kids all designed their block and then I tried to translate it into a quilt block. I embroidered each child's name on their block.

(Their school's emblem is the dolphin, that's why you see a couple of them.)

Showing the kids the finished quilt... they were so excited!

One of the pictures drawn by a student

This quilt I made for a friend I met at work. She is the school district's nurse and we became friends while I worked at the Neighborhood Center/Columbia Middle School. She is in process of adopting an infant boy that has some health problems. I made this as a baby quilt for little Ryan.

This quilt I made for a friend from the Puerto Rico when she got her new home... The block is the half-log cabine (aka lover's knot) and the background is blacks and purples. It looked almost velvety. One of my favorite quilts (but I say that about all of them).

Magaly Joann

While I was working at an elementary school this year I heard about a little second grade girl that was diagnosed with leukemia. Working with the kids in her class I came up with this quilt for the little girl, Jazmine. Each kid designed their own Tortilla Quilt block based on the block described in the children's book "The Tortilla Quilt" and then I "set" it into the quilt. While I was making this quilt I attended the Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara. I was looking at all the vendor's booths when I ran across a Pinata Quilt described in another book by the same author. When I commented, "Ooh, the Pinata Quilt!" A voice behind me said, "I'm the author." She and I struck up a conversation and I got several of her books which she autographed. She even wrote and autographed a muslin square for the back of Jazmine's quilt.

One of the little boys holding the quilt block he designed.

Delivering the quilt to the class. I made a tote for the quilt with the left over blocks and fabric and gave Jazmine and the teacher each a copy of The Tortilla Quilt book with a personal note and autograph by the author. This was one fun project!!!

Right now I'm trying to make myself a quilt using the bright colors with the black/purple background.