Handy Andy Scrap Quilt

 A lazy summer scrap quilt. Each 2 block sets used 2 contrasting jelly roll strips paired with 2 neutral, matching strips. As with all the pattern tutorials by Jenny Doan at Missouri Star Quilts, there are easy short cuts and piecing tricks. I started making 1 block, well, okay, 2 blocks just to test the technique. Oh! That was easy.... OK, how about 9? No, an even number.... Before I knew it I had 20 blocks! A quilt! 

Looks pretty in the sunshine! 

Update: SOLD on etsy

Southwestern Wedding Quilt for Kaity and Eric

 Made from a jellyroll of muted mottled dark colors, this delectable mountains quilt was finished before I realized it was perfect for my niece's wedding.  Postponed for a year due to the Pandemic, it was fast approaching. I had made a quilt in orange and green for them BUT when I saw this one completed, I KNEW this was the one for them! 

Bold and Beautiful Delectable Mountains

Pride Quilt 2021

 I was finishing a quilt recently that I had started a few years ago and decided to finish for my friend Laketa. But it wasn't talking to me. I was a little bothered, because I liked the quilt and all but it just wasn't LAKETA. While quilting it, I received a text from another old friend Mauricio, randomly sending me a photo of a quilt he had seen at a PRIDE event... BOOM! This quilt told me it was Mauricio's quilt....

Isn't it amazing how a project will SPEAK and tell you where it belongs!

 

Las Vegas Quilt

My cousin Patti's husband LOVES Las Vegas. Always has, always will! So this year, when I learned he will he getting a knee replacement I started thinking about a healing quilt. I have made quilts for Patti, for their 3 daughters, but never one just for Alex! So..... Planning. 

A knee quilt? Couldn't picture it..... Legs? Nope, not coming up with any inspiration. Wait! For YEARS I bought and collected GAMBLING fabrics! Dice, cards, roulette, bingo, keno..... If they invented it, I bought a piece of it! 

I kept it simply designed so the fabric collection could do the talking. It's a large lap quilt to recuperate with and then nap under next winter. For Alex. 

 

Juneteenth 2021

In 2021 the US recognized Juneteenth as a holiday. It marks the announcement of emancipation June 19th 1865. The colors are red, green and black (blood, prosperity and soil) of Africa and her people. I made this Juneteenth quilt to gift Laketa in the purchase of her first home.

The back of this quilt is a rich gold and black.