Cheerful Yellow Double Square Star

 My goodness look at this bright yellow pinwheel in this beautiful lap quilt! I started this quilt with a friend in mind (Lisa Gagne retirement)  then Janice suggested the Road to Oklahoma  for Lisa. and I changed my mind so it's now ready to offer for sale. The quilting is a wavy lazy horizontal line about every 2 to 3 inches, and then some loopy designs on the top and bottom borders. 

The blocks are on  either crisp white or the palest of yellows backgrounds. The back is a different shade of yellow widened with a scrap from the beautiful pink with tones used in the borders.  The pinwheels just pop off of this quilt! After pinning I realized it was about 1 inch too thin! I added a strip onto each side without unpinning it. Problem solved! 

You can see the tiny additional width I needed to add...

SOLD!

Abstract Nine Patch

 This was so fun to make! It's freestyle cut and put back together then trimmed to size.  I quilted it with the walking foot every 2 to 3 inches. 

Update: SOLD on Etsy!

Reproduction Four Patch Baby Quilt

 Made in 2008 or 2009, when I subscribed to a fabric of the month club. Unfortunately I don't remember era, just that I liked this fat quarter collection.  It's a decorative quilt, and it hung on a rack for many years. 

The binding was sewn by hand. 

SOLD on Etsy in 2024

Road To Tennessee Quilt

 I made this soft lap quilt for a nurse who is retiring from the same Neonatal Intensive Care Unit I retired from a year ago. She has already bought a new home in Tennessee so the Road To Tennessee quilt block made all the sense in the world. 

I'll take it to work and have all the nurses and doctors write a greeting or memory on the back in fabric ink pens. 

The blocks started as 5 inch squares in solids combined with a pretty white on white. The border is a very subtle cream on white and the binding white. 

Lisa G retirement quilt

Nursing Career Memory Quilt

 

Each and every quilt block is made from a scrub top and pant that I wore during my 29 year nursing career. There are a lot of tags, a patch with a TCMC logo from a jacket I earned working on a project. And yes, every nurse at SOME point came home from work in a hospital-issue scrub. 

Most of my years were spent in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, so these scrubs went to births, they were at resuscitations, they were worn on busy nights and on quiet nights, spent just holding babies. 

They got sweat upon during intense procedures. They got peed on, spit up on, cried on. By babies as well as by me!  If you are a nurse, you know it's true. A careers worth of memories made into a quilt. 

In August 2021, we gathered along with 3 other nurses I started my career with: Janice, Vicia and Debbie, for a celebration by our fellow nurses. The quilt was signed and filled with good wishes and more memories. 

Jungle Baby Quilt

Porscha asked me to make a baby quilt for a friend of hers. She described the quilt she wanted as a jungle theme with a modern twist. For colors she mentioned touches of deeper earth tones with pops of color. The new baby a boy. I decided on some animal fabrics from my stash with green to represent the jungle plants and blue to represent the water. This was the beginning of the original fabric pull. 

The pattern is called crosscut quilt. I started by cutting 6 1/2 inch blocks from the jungle fabrics then slicing them diagonally and inserting a 1 inch strip in each direction. They were then sewed back together and then cut into 5 1/2 inch blocks. They get sewn back together. So I really had no idea how it would look until it was finished.

I found a half yard of a  darling ROAR! print in my baby stash that works well for the back 

I am pleased with it! 

Baby Windmills Quilt

 Made very simply from a charm pack and some pale yellow, the idea for me this quilt was in my Pinterest "To Make" board for awhile.

 

I used a template to quilt, but when the thread kept breaking, I lightly traced the stipple design and then free motion quilted it. I have not been able to figure out ruler/template quilting from you tube or tutorials. Need a real teacher.....

SOLD to Debbie Hickson

The quilt that inspired mine.....

Scrap Happy Jacobs Ladder

 

Finished today but pieced sometime last year from pure leftovers and scraps. The only requirement to make it into this quilt was dark and light had to contrast in each block. Some of the fabrics are novelty, some of them are batiks, some of them are children's designs, or Christmas, or even Easter. Even the binding was pieced entirely out of scraps from my binding scrap box. 

I quoted this with wavy lines using my walking foot about every 4 inches. The batting is a very thin polyester batting for a lovely lightweight summer quilt.

My plans for this particular quilt is to donate to the church for a silent auction.

Sold to Debbie Hickson, proceeds to St Andrew's Encinitas after the fundraiser was postponed for COVID. 

Bow Ties Quilt

 The very traditional bow ties quilt is always a fun one for me to make. I decided to make this one in colors suitable for a man. It's a lap size quilt with a fluffy 80/20 batting. Each bow tie is cut from one charm with a half of a neutral charm for the background. After putting it together I realized it wasn't as large as I wanted it to be so I searched my stash and found this fabric that is perfect for the 3 inch border.