Welcome to my website!

I began quilting about ten years ago when I volunteered to coordinate quilts for my children's elementary school classes. I loved quilting right away, and was hooked as soon as I slept under my first quilt.  As a parent with a 'day job' outside of the home, I did not have time to finish all my quilt tops by hand, and turned to machine quilting on my home sewing machine. I have been inspired by classes I have taken with many talented teachers. Before I knew it I fell in love with machine quilting - all on my home sewing machine!

I hope you enjoy browsing this site. Please check back for new quilts, more photos and updated workshop information.

Brother Wall Machine Workmanship Award

My quilt Five Bar Blues won the Brother Wall Machine Workmanship Award at the 2011 AQS Quilt Show in Paducah. This award is one of the top awards of this international quilt show.  I am thrilled that my quilt won this award, especially because this is the first time I have entered my quilts in an AQS show.

I began Five Bar Blues because I wanted a simple and lightweight Amish patterned quilt layered with wool batting for my bed.  As the quilt came together and quilting designs emerged I realized this quilt may not cover my bed for a long time (if ever!)

I had two quilts accepted as semi-finalists for the 2011 Paducah AQS Quilt show.  Both of my recent Amish quilts, Square in Square I and Five Bar Blues were displayed at the show in Paducah.

                                                  Square in Square I

Infinite Variety - Red and White Quilts

From March 25 through March 30, a remarkable exhibit of 650 antique red and white quilts was displayed at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.  This was one of the ‘Year of the Quilt’ exhibits sponsored by the American Folk Art Museum, and was free to the public for 6 days in March.  I was in the right place at the right time and spent most of a full day overwhelmed and exhilarated by this show. I took over 400 photographs, and wish I'd taken more!

If you weren't able to see the exhibit, check out the slide show on my site under the Favorites / Photos link at the top, or click on the red and white photographs below!

For more information about this exhibit, visit the American Folk Art museum website

2011 Workshop Schedule Posted

My 2011 schedule of workshops and lectures is posted.

I'm still posting more quilt photos in the Quilt Gallery, so visit and check out the new quilts!  Or visit Diane's Quilt Index where you can see thumbnails that link to all the quilts.

Visit my Blog!

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In the spring of 2009, the New England Quilt Museum featured a selection of my quilts in the Museum Shop.  If you were unable to visit the museum in Lowell, Massachusetts to see my work while I was the Featured Artist at the Museum, please visit my first blog entry where I have posted a few photos of the exhibit.