Thank you for your kind comments.
Jewel box is a traditional pattern, the 3D bow tie is someone else's, the rest are my own designs. I decide to make the wedding ring pattern as a raw edge, fringed machine applique. The sewing was very fast. The fringing was not.
When a group of my friends were making Hawaiian style quilts, keeping in mind that the tradition was to use one's own family experiences and symbols, I included our 2 parrots as shapes for mine.
I do some traditional patterns, but most often I tweak them somewhat.
I made a scrappy quilt, centered around theme units and called it log shanty, because it was WAY to irregular to be a log cabin. When I found these wonderful batiks, I repeated my pattern, calling it Sea Shanty (which refers to a traditional seaman's song).