Quilting became a passion in 1981 after seeing a faculty colleague hand quilting and appliquéing during lunch. The tactile enhancement of stitched fabric to design had me hooked. Starting with traditional block construction, I soon moved into improvisational piecing, both machine and hand stitching. Quilting techniques and painting concepts fused after immersing myself in photo imaging on the computer in the fall of 1994. Since then, I have explored heat-transferring digital imagery to fabric using computer-altered scans of my photographs, earlier art work, family album material and/or actual objects.