Named by Pete, I designed and made this quilt to sell on etsy. I wanted a lap quilt that would appeal to the guys. It's graphic. It's controlled in colors. The quilting is geometric.
Very controlled for me! Just 2 fabrics and a third one for the binding. I had seen a quilt someplace and intended to copy it but somehow I didn't and thus the Tuning Forks appeared!
Listed for sale on etsy
I made this a second time for a silent auction for Camp Stevens, the Episcopal Church's camp in Julian.
Simply made, it is striking in these autumn solids and blacks.
Of course it also became a canvas for my newly evolving freemotion quilting skills. Clamshells in the body with Grey thread, ribbon candy in the inner black border and feathers in the borders.
A Grey backing and black binding for this 57 X 48 quilt with 100% cotton backing.
Young Heather came to us last summer as a new grad from seminary to intern with Brenda at St. Andrews. At the same time Pete had graduated and was also interning as a Deacon.
We enjoyed our young new age Deacon interning (barefoot) to remain connected to the earth with Seasoned Pete also finding his voice and role in the church.
Heather was ordained and has accepted a post to minister to students at UCSD. We bid her good bye and good luck with a bright modern quilt of stars, peace and inclusion. We will have it autographed and prayed over on her last Sunday at St Andrews.
This 47 by 57" lap quilt started with a collection of 6 matching fabrics in blue with with gold accents. I picked up all 6 as a collection at a garage sale in my neighborhood a few weeks ago for $1. I then added pieces from my collection in either shades of blue or shades of yellow. Some blocks twirl right, some twirl left, so I bordered each block on 2 sides to let them stand out from one another. I searched for my border until I located a gorgeous blues with yellow stripe!
Make a "Quarter Square Pinwheel" Quilt with Jenny Doan of Missouri Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq6zRYLMHK4
It is quilted on my home machine in a freestyle meandering pattern with a pale yellow backing adorned with one left over block. The batting is a soft cozy polycotton.
SOLD!
Isn't this exciting? Made with random tilted cuts on the charms filled with 1" strips of black r gray. Found the perfect fabric for the border on sale at JoAnns.
Make a "Pixie Sticks" Quilt with Jenny Doan of Missouri Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yMyoQ0UtWM
I made this quilt to donate to Camp Steven's for auction. It raised $160!
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!
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!
I was inspired by a quilt tutorial online and a collection of unique peace-signs and sixties psychedelic fabrics to make a cuddle quilt just for me! Set on a black background, with a polyester batting, and the back another in theme fabric, it's so ME and I love it.
https://modafabrics.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/simply-woven-quilt/
https://modafabrics.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/simply-woven-quilt/
I made a small quilt using a Jenny Doan tutorial using the binding tool..... used up some bright scraps and made a 1 star quilt. It was cute but I offered it for sale, it was purchased by a woman who upcycles quilts into jackets.
A few months later Sandy surprised me by gifting me the unique quilt made into coat! This quilt had some sentimental fabrics in it.... a Y2K fabric (Miranda's birth year) some emojis that were worn by Ezekiel on his masks and his "boring bags", a bag of toys to carry places. Also some peace signs from a quilt I made for myself. So, now I get to WEAR my sentimental fabrics!
I was inspired by a quilt I saw on Pinterest. I followed the pattern very close to what I saw with fabrics I bought in Anaheim, a collection of bright mottled fabrics paired with crisp white.
The idea came from a quilt tutorial over at Missouri Star quilts, this idea of cutting and quartering a stripe and reassembling it to make a design. I used 2 related blue stripes to make this dramatic baby sized quilt. Just quilted this year, I put it together several years ago.
Sold on etsy.
I started this greens quilt with no particular end idea or owner, just wanted to make random sytips to change into HST's with green. The Laketa casually mentioned that her rather tall husband wondered if HE was ever going to get a quilt...... and this quilt now flashed forward with purpose. A tall lap quilt!
