Red and White Baby Quilt

The block is a delectable mountains block; made from a tutorial on Missouri Star Quilt Blog. A 10"HST was made and sliced into 4 equal (2 1/2") strips. rearranged and sewn, it makes a rectangular block. Alternated with a piece of "redwork" I found in the workroom, it becomes an easy to finish baby quilt. Similar to his big sister's adoption quilt, made one year ago!

Search "redwork" to see last year's quilt. 

Horizons on the Vertical

A play with scrappy stripes, set horizontally, in vertical strips. The only requirement here was they needed to be stripes.... (or a few neutrals just to calm the thing down a little bit.)
This is a generous lap quilt, with thick warm and natural 100% cotton batting to make it useful autumn through the winter.
Even the border is scraps of stripes, and the binding is a brick color with orange/yellow stripes reading "California" in different sizes. I bought several yards of this fabric at a going out of business sale of a fabric store called Hancock Fabrics, several years ago. It just seemed right for this quilt.

A Christening Quilt

My Grandson Benigno Ezekiel will be baptized, along with his sisters Miranda and Amber.  This called for.......... a special quilt!  Of course!

Sun Print Plus Quilt

The "Plus Quilts" made of squares, that I have seen on Pinterest (I have 164 pinned.....) have long been fascinating to me.  Beyond simple, each "plus" is 5 squares.  They are distinguished by their layout, not being "blocks" at all, just interlaced plus signs.  This quilt was made on a morning off, with a charm pack named "Sun Prints" that I selected for it's diversity yet having at least 5 prints to most of it's color families.  I added 1 random orangish charm, and about a yard of white polka dot for alternate squares and a top and bottom border to make it a usable lap quilt. It is 401/2 inches wide by 54 inches tall.  The batting is a thin poly, slightly fluffy, but perfect weight for a summery quilt.

Restorative Geese

Having made the scrap blocks a few at a time over time, it was nice to find myself several hours to finish this homey quilt.  The scraps remind me of quilts past, the loved ones I made them for, and the occasion. Since I had a full mind of worries when I started, by the time I finished I was in my happy place. What a way to be restored!

Little Boy Vroom!

Some variations on the cutting of a disappearing 4 patch. Made for a grand-nephew's highly anticipated arrival this October.

Going to have to make some accessories:  A little diaper and wipes bag, a taggie, and a bib, out of the left over blocks!

Bow Tie Charms

Since becoming a full-time GrandNanny, quilt finishes are much less frequent.  This delightful lightweight summer quilt was made slowly block at a time with 2 charm packs and white muslin. Fun!

C.f.This quilt was filled with loving greetings and gifted to a retiring coworker nurse friend in 2018. Happy Retirement, Candace!

Red White and Blue

Made this simple charm-square quilt with a thick, 100% cotton quilt bat for sitting on in the yard in the summer.  It's a generous lap sized quilt, stitched in the ditch.

Bugs and Blood for Amber

Little A is a fearless creature at age 6.  She likes bugs, and I think her favorite topic might be blood and stories that feature plenty of blood and gore.  Other peoples and even her own!  So when I found the fabric with blood spatter on quilt run, I knew it needed to be on her cuddle quilt for Grandma Anne's house!

The other fabrics include animal skins, bugs, a darling Dr Seuss fabric that says 'I like you!" skeletons and pirates, sharks, and dancing toys.

Skellies and Geese for Miranda

This quilt is a cuddle quilt for Miranda to use when she is visiting Grandma Anne. I think it suits her.  Made when she was 14, it has feminine colors (but not girly) a strong symmetry, great skeletons in the borders, and he wild zig zag that she fell in love with when she saw it.

I bought the fabrics all at Quilt Run 2015.  At first, the skellies were for a different quilt, but I realized this is where they needed to be!

Grandmother's Vintage Blocks

A friend of mine recently sent me these photos of a quilt I made for her way back in 2002.  She brought me some Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks her grandmother had made. I decided rather than trying to attach them and finish the quilt that way I would applique several on a muslin background.  Some repros fabric in the border, and a large stitch hand quilting finished this little memory quilt!

Mom Quilt

A fun project, gather some children and do handprint/footprint art: the children print with acrylic paint and add details to their prints. They sign and date their blocks. Then a simple arrangement with a charm pack and some triangle corners, a border, and WOW! A moment in time and precious memories are forever saved!

Made Spring break, 2015 . Remembering a moment with Sienna, Olivia and Preston.

Squares and Shadows

This quilt, for me, is very restrained.  In stark white and pastels, solids, the blocks are all the same, no surprise red or green anywhere. I quilted it by machine in an allover 2 inch grid. Laundered, it crinkled up nicely. It's for "a baby."

Sold on etsy

Bright Happy Baby Flowers

Experimenting with a setting from a book called "Circle Of Nine." You make 9 blocks (about the number I can make before getting bored!) and then make some half sized rectangles and such for staggering the 9 blocks in a circle. I really like the effect!   This is a little girl quilt, to be donated to a premature baby who is going home from the hospital soon.

The charm pack was named "LOL"

Birthday for a Momma

What mother doesn't delight in little reminders of their precious children?  So I got my grandkids to make me some handprints (or in the case of the new baby footprints!) on muslin squares.  Then I set them in a bright happy collection of charms and bordered it all with some Happy Birthday Cakes.

Happy 34th birthday to Amber. 

Little Cabanas

Just a darling small wall quilt to celebrate springy tropical colors and themes!

Arrowheads for Shannon

A lightweight spring quilt for the other grandmother of my Grandson.  Made with a 1/8ths pack of 12 fabrics (fabric of the month club!) and some white on white that belonged to my mother, and was in her Irish Chain prize winning quilt she made for my niece Carrie many years ago.  At one time she wanted to add a larger border to her hand-quilted double bed sized quilt, and so bought yards and yards of the fabric.  The quilt was already finished and bound.... THAT sounded like a project!  She didn't remake it, my niece adores it as is, and I have been able to add my mother's fabric to important sentimental quilts over the years.

Gifted to Shannon

Acrobats

This small project (approx 20 inches square) was a little fun diversion with an hour of time in the sewing studio.  I picked up the leftover charms of 2 baby quilts made this year, and just put them together as half square triangles.  Then I did it again, making the quarter square patches.  Then I flipped through my quilt block calendar and found a block named ACROBAT that used up my scraps along with some other squares I had lying around.    I had one block left over, and into the orphan box it went to be included in a scrap quilt some day.

Landon's Baby Quilt

Baby quilts are among my very favorite things to make.  The size is perfect, and they are always exciting to give away.  Here is a quilt for the first child of a young friend I watched grow up. Congratulations!

Lena's Quilt

Several years ago my friend Sharon brought me a stack of HST's that she found when cleaning out her mother's things.  Sharon vaguely remembered her mother working on the blocks when she was a girl, the 1940's or 50's. She asked me could I put the random blocks together into some kind of memory quilt. This is what I came up with:

Lena had pretty much already constructed the 25-patch blocks, all fabrics and arrangements are original. I find is so charming!

NICU for March Of Dimes

Each year the NICU challenges the rest of the hospital to fund raise by participating in several events.  The money is raised for the March Of Dimes in their prevention of birth defects and prematurity. We march, we sell stuff, we host events.  This year, I was asked to make a quilt for a silent auction.

I picked a block that has always fascinated me and put together this treasure with around 20 jelly roll strips and 5 different grays. It's a generous sized lap quilt, filled with 100% cotton batting and quilted in a 2" overall grid.

Good Luck to the winner of this cozy quilt!

Update: The raffle was banned as "gambling," so I gifted this quilt to Fayza, my housekeeper.

Making Memories

A friend brought me 2 old quilt tops, sewn many years ago by her mother.  This friend wished to divide the 2 tops among 5 family members, so each could have something made by her mother.  I told her they would be small, wall quilts, or table runners.  She agreed that would be the perfect size.  She said she preferred the blue quilt, but thought the rest might prefer the other quilt.

I was very excited to do this challenge!  Since it wasn't MY mother's work, cutting into it felt exciting, and I looked forward to seeing what I might render from these 2 quilt tops.  

I started by cutting out the center of the postage stamp quilt.  It was perfect, glorious, and I LOVED the color use.  I was very tempted to keep this one for myself, I loved it that much!
#4 was made from blocks cut from the 4 corners of the quilt.  #5, from blocks along the sides.  #3 also blocks from the sides, and I found a purple from my stash to make a centered design. #2 was the lone quilt made from the blue and white.  I carefully selected the blocks from the quilt that had a lot of variety, and a little brown stain to keep it real.  I machine quilted them all fairly dense, backed them with unbleached muslin, and gave them a gentle wash then into the dryer to wrinkle them up a bit.

This was a very fun project!

Striped Traingled Diamonds on the Diagonals

The triangle is a shape that I find interesting and want to try all the variations of setting that I can think of. I made a scrap quilt with 6" striped triangles.  In order to run my striped sideways, I had to cut each triangle instead of cutting from a strip.  It left these small (3") triangles from the sides so I piled them up and started wondering what could I do with them?  This is a small table runner for the entryway where we drop our keys and stuff as we walk in the door.  I scrapped together the batting and used strips from the strip basket for the binding.  A true "upcycling" scrap project!

Water Painted Fishies

My 6 year old grand-daughter wanted to do a craft on a busy evening.  So I drew some fish on a piece of blue dyed muslin, gave her the colored pencils, a few paint brushes and a cup of water.  The delightful table runner is the product of her work and it looks great in the center of the table!

A Modern Baby Quilt

An old friend Dena is becoming a first time grandma, just a month after my joyful experience.  I made her children's baby quilts and now what delight to make her first grandchild  quilt!
Pure solid half-square triangles, made from 2 charm packs, with a couple mottled colors and 1 strip, the asymmetrically bordered.  The child's sex is a delightful secret to the family, so I needed to make a bold gender neutral statement.

Blue Ice

Started on a very rare, very cold San Diego weekend right after the holiday. The colors matched the coldness I was feeling!  I had to add one little red spark, and then as quickly as it happened, the cold weather was over and San Diego was back to it's usual balmy weather!

Backed with a clearance fuzzy lap blanket, this quilt is as cozy as can be and keeps the cold away! Gifted to April for Ryan who lived snuggling with it.