"OH DEER!" - I made this quilt for a Red & White Quilt Guild Challenge. The deer are hand appliqued and the piece is embellished with beads.

Still life by the aquarium is part of a series I have designed.  I have enjoyed making still life pieces using vintage doilies and laces. It is pieced and appliqued. The fish in the aquarium are hand painted and all the fabric is dyed by me. 

Paris at Christmas - I made this quilt for a block of the month at my local quilt shop. I loved working with the red and white fabrics and it was a challenge to find enough variations to get the right contrasts needed. This quilts resides on a queen size bed, but only during the holidays.

Something Rather Fishy - Queensland Quilters Inc. Challenge 2011- I used the design elements of the mermaid fabric which required minimum 20% visible and added other fabrics to create the fishy arrangement-the jug's handle and spout are the mermaid's tail and fish! Touring for 16 months.

Turkeman Mother and Children - This pictorial quilt shows a nomadic tribal woman with her children. The composition was inspired by a photo taken by the artist while traveling in eastern Turkey.

Pink Squares - “Everything today is thoroughly modern!” So I couldn’t resist trying it. I wanted to piece some squares from striped fabric. I used Kaffe Fassett stripe and a plain pink background. Luckily I found the strips for the large box in my “stash.” I quilted this piece with MeadowLyon’s “Modern Squares” pantograph.

This quilt was three years in the making. The top didn't take that long, though. It was deciding on the quilting that took the most time. I really wanted it to be special, so I built up my free motion skills on other projects and continued to work on it slowly. It was recently displayed in a local art gallery highlighting my Quilt Guild's 25th Anniversary along with other artists' work. I think its my new favourite!

My quilt for IMQE “On the Edge of Tradition” has been a journey of joy.  Ever since “meeting” Karen from Canada, I have enjoyed getting to know her, her quilting, and her family through the emails we have exchanged.  She is very encouraging, knowledgeable and confident in her skills as a quilter.

After finding out Karen’s preferred colors I set out to see how I could incorporate them into a mini quilt that set off my skills and infuse some of the New Mexico flair to the quilt.  With her colors of turquoise and reds, setting them against the black and whites kept coming to the forefront of my thoughts as I designed this mini.  A traditional nine patch and an appliqued wreath pattern were set in motion.  Turquoise is a color that is associated with the native Navajo nation in their jewelry and traditional dress. My town of Farmington, NM borders the Navajo nation.  

 I love traditional quilts with applique.  The classes that I have taken from many national quilt artists encouraged me to worked on my applique skills.  In this piece I have used techniques from Sharon Shamber for the leaves.  The 3/8” hexagons are an extension of another quilt I am currently working on. Black and White just kept it edgy.

My husband and I travel extensively and this quilt has been to Washington in the summer, across country to Vermont in the fall and to the third coast in Texas in Feb. 

This quilt is a collaborative effort and represents our interpretation of Sue Spargo's Folk Tails pattern.  My friend selected the beautiful fabrics and gorgeous color scheme, a complete shift away from Sue's usual wool to cotton.  I appliqued and quilted, all on a domestic machine.  The small added cranes are in homage to our mutual love of Mah Jongg which introduced us to each other.  The small owl in this quilt represents a beautiful Owl Mah Jongg set that inspired this project.  The Mah Jongg set now lives with me and the quilt resides with my friend.  

Veterans Quilt - I made this Veterans Quilt to honor some of the men in my family who have served this country during a time of war. There are four Marines shown on this quilt, three Army veterans, one Navy veteran and one Air Force veteran. The four people surrounded by gold stars have passed away. My husband, David, who died in 1986 at the age of 44, (upper center photo) is one of these four. His great-uncle, Frank, received the Purple Heart Medal during World War I. Because I didn't have a picture of Frank, I scanned the front and back of his Purple Heart Medal (center photo) which had been passed down in the family to my late husband. 2008 Note: Since I created this quilt, two more veterans, both my brothers-in-law, have passed away. (Lower left and lower center photos)

Through the Mountains - This quilt was made to be donated to a Wounded Warrior. The name comes from the journey back to health that many of our veterans must make because of their service to our country.

A selfie of my daughter and her friend dressed to participate in a samba parade during their student year in Chile was the inspiration for this fabric collage quilt. It was quite a challenge to recreate their faces and flowers from printed and batik fabrics, but I'm quite pleased with how it came out.

"Samba Selfie" was accepted into the 2018 Pacific International Quilt Festival and won a ribbon for Visual Impact in the New Quilts of Northern California exhibit there. It will also be on display at the 2019 Road to California show.

This is my version of TQS BOM 2017 which I named "Fiesta Halo Medallion."  It won first place in its category at the 2018  "Quilt Fiesta Santa Fe" in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For more pictures click:  https://quiltsbyjoyce.blog/2018/10/18/fiesta-halo-medallion/

"Pandora's Closet" - I had many leftover crazy triangles which I added two to make diagonal halves of blocks to make an overall quasi-tumbling blocks. They are supposed to look like they are exploding with light.