Tea With Lemon

I found a magazine paper pieced pattern for the lemons, and was inspired to make a quilt for my Mother-In-Law celebrating her favorite drink, tea.  I used an Aunt Martha's iron-on pattern for the embroidered tea pots, in purple to match the fabric from a reproduction collection of fat quarters from a fabric-of-the-month club. The lemons were made from my "yellow box".  I had another paper-pieced pattern for the tea cups from Electric Quilt. This is a nice wall sized quilt.

Scrap Plates

An early quilt, made from scraps of clothes, some going back to high school dresses!

Gifted to my Mother-In-Law.

Little Dutch Girls in Blue

The design squares are an Aunt Martha's Day of the Week iron-on design on white muslin.  I then used crayons, sharpies and watercolor pencils to color each design. Then the blocks were a pile of blue blocks, made literally from the blue scrap box.  Simple designs, HST's, flying geese, 4-patches, square-in-a-squares,  pinwheels, and a few plain blocks. I decided how many based on getting the 7 days of the weeks blocks all onto the quilt, nicely centered and spaced in relation to one another.

I made this quilt but didn't finish it until JUST the right little girls came along.  My Grand Niece turns two, and this seemed like just the thing for her!  So finished the quilt-sandwich and quilted it in the ditch in a 3-inch grid. In the mail, and off to be a sweet surprise.

Fairy Princesses

I was delighted to make this baby quilt for my friend, when she was expecting her first baby.  I got the fairy panels at a quilt show.  Added blocks with fabrics from here, there and everywhere.  Added pieces and strips to make it all fit together.

Sixteen Patches for a Raffle

Just a simple lap quilt donated for a fundraiser for the Special Education in our town.  The center block was a leftover; on white muslin I pounded leaves and flowers to stain the cloth.  After heat setting the colors, I stenciled on the design from a stencil I cut.  I used oil based wax with a toothbrush for he stenciling.  Then strips from the scrap heap made the patches for the 16-patch blocks.  Threw it together, machine stitched in the ditch, and off it went to raise funds.

Baby Quilts for Woody & Nathan

Cousins, the grandsons of my friend and neighbor, were born less than a week apart!  That was 5 years ago, and of course the boys are the best of friends.  So, I made 2 quilts with similar colors but different patterns.

First was Woody's quilt, a wonky tilted square.  Then Nathan's, a slightly less crazy square in a square.

And finally, for Nathan's big sister, a doll quilt from the scraps.