Jackie & Martin's Wedding Quilts

My very sweet young friend married her best friend.  I wanted to make a special set of quilts for her and her husband.  She had requested the batiks, rail fence, large enough to snuggle and a pair!  Actually pretty specific.  In any case, I had a lot of fun shopping for the colors, mixing them up, adding the applique to hers, and putting them together.  The little pillow is for the rings at the wedding, they were attached and passed around so all the guests could warm them and fill them with good wishes and blessings.

Tiny 16-Patches

Another Charm Square Project.  The 3" blocks have 16 patches in them, each patch is 3/4" of an inch big.  Keeping everything precise in tiny squares is usually a bigger challenge.  BUT, I can satisfy an need to be instantly gratified, fondle fabrics, start and finish a project in an afternoon AND use a charm pack!  This color scheme is outside of my own norm, kind of glaring and clashing.  The theme of the fabric is robots, circuit boards, gears.

Grey Plates

This little quilt was an experiment in using a few, not-bright colors and crisp white.  Sort of hard for me, I tend to love LOTS and BRIGHTS!  So, some simple dresden plates needle-turn appliqued in circles, with the theme being "grey stripes."  Then quilted by machine in a meandering, fairly dense pattern. A tiny grey and pink paisley inner border and the same fabric for the binding.

Update: SOLD on etsy

Cheerful Hexies

I bought a great bright charm pack and a new template; a half hexagon that cuts 2 half-hexies from each charm.  Then I saw a magazine ad in a catalog that was a pattern and template for about $20, and I realized my half hexies would be perfect, I didn't need to buy another pattern or template!

So, 42 charms, some white muslin, and an afternoon later, here is the darling bright quilt I made!

Updat3: SOLD on etsy

Split 4 Patch

This block is fascinating to me, so I have made it a few times, experimenting each time with the colors.  This one used a collection of 12 fabrics (1/8 yard cuts) I received in a fabric of the month collection, mixed with neutrals from my stash.  The collection included several florals so I selected a green leafy fabric (bought on a quilt run just for this quilt!)  for the border.  Quilted on my new machine 1/4 inch from the seams and meandered on the border, the batting is a fluffy polyester, very thin, so it's a nice cuddly quilt.  It is for my friend, Marinee. 

Autumn Table Runner

Simple simple simple!  3" blocks set on point. Autumy sunflower scraps and other things from other quilts.

Scrappy Triangles Wedding Quilt

This one was made from scraps from the floor, the scrap bin, boxes lying around.  Even the binding came from the scraps of bindings box!  Was also learning how to cut and sew triangles from a ruler.  Plus trying out the new sewing machine fro quilting!  When Em mentioned how much she liked it; it found it's home.  Interesting; I was thinking of her when I made it, since she has an eye for artsy, asymmetrical and non-traditional quilts!

Too Young To Quilt?

Ryan's mom April helped me take a footprint (Ryan would NOT allow a handprint!) for his Christmas ornament.  Youngest quilt class I have done yet!

When he gets bigger will he still want to paint on quilts?  I bet yes! 

Racquel's Christmas Table Runner

I could always count on Racquel to talk me OUT of buying more fabric!  Since I have a serious fabric hoarding addiction, when I would check what's for sale each day (they post at midnight and I work all nighters!) Racqui would look over my shoulder and encourage me to "just y no!"  Well....... until she saw THIS Christmas collection!  She loved it and egged me on to buy it and make it for her!

And no wonder!  They are beautiful fabrics.  So I bought the charm pack and made a simple table runner for her Christmas table.  

Baby Memorial Quilt

Sometimes I buy some fabric and even stitch it together.  These fabrics were in a collection of fat 8ths I got during a quilt run a few years back.  They are sweet, innocent, old fashioned classical baby fabrics.  I put them together, found a great stripe from my stash for the mitered border, then it went in a closet.  Until just the right baby came along, who's brief life mattered so much to his parents.  I knew just which quilt top I had, and pulled it out and finished it.

  Baby Dale, 2009.

Girls Quilting Day 2013

I LOVE to introduce people to quilting.  Sometimes, it "clicks!" and a new quilter is produced.  So when my friends bring their daughters over (age 3 1/2 and up!) we have a blast bringing out the paints and stamps and creating a first quilt.

The little girls were between 3 1/2 and 5, I had 3 little ones and an 11 year old over. I may have offered too many options for so little time; next time I may do only painting, stamping and sewing buttons. 

The girls were all quite proud of their creations.  I think EMMA was the most intense.......... maybe she will be a quilter some day! 

  

One Thousand Pyramids

Been wanting to make a thousand pyramids quilt for awhile.  Made literally from the scraps on the floor and white muslin.  Machine quilted in the ditch with triangles in the border.  These are 4" triangles, measured with a equilateral triangle ruler.