Wedding Quilt in Peach

  A young friend of mine is getting married! Her  Colors are peach and white.. I decided green would look good with those colors and this is the quilt I made her for a wedding gift. I cut around 55" blocks from the background fabric the background fabric and snowballed opposing corners with a collection of leftover charms cut into quarters by the fabric designer Kaffe Fassett, who always designs bold colors and patterns. 

Bordered then with a bold green and a playful spring colors it is ready to inscribe and gift. 

"It is not chains that bind a marriage, but hundreds of tiny stitches."

Congratulations Asia!

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

Royal Wedding

I love Jenny Doan's tutorials!  When they come out on Friday I can't wait to try a block and often have to sit down and make a quilt immediately!  One charm pack and whites and solids from stash came together beautifully to make this lap sized quilt. 

 Gifted to NEYA

Triangles Wedding Quilt

Made for a young couple getting married, the daughter of a friend of mine marrying an Intern of Pete's.

It's a lap sized quilt, in muted colors with an occasional bright surprise, that was from a charm pack and I added grays and the big blue triangles. It has triangles, geese and half square triangles.  All blocks I love to make!

QUILT: Rings

This quilt was inspired by a wedding.  I wanted a representation of gold wedding bands, and had several great greys in a collection with the yellows.  After finishing the yellow rings, I decided to make grey nine-patches with gold centers.  the background is a great white with grey x's (kisses?) and the quilt came together as a generous lap quilt. White and natural in the quilt layer makes it a year round good choice for San Diego.

Romana and Jim

25th Wedding Anniversary

Made this cheerful little quilt for the 25th wedding anniversary of  my dear cousin Patty and her husband Alex.  4-patchs and squares, alternated with simple plain blocks, arranged in a circular pattern (called barn raising in quilting terms) using a collection of fat quarters and scraps from the stash.

Sand Unity Ceremony

When a friend of mine was getting married, she described to me a "Sand Unity Ceremony" that would take place at her wedding.  Two different colors of sand in two jars are poured into one new vessel.  This symbolizes the two becoming one, intertwined, inseparable, eternal.  I loved the image, and decided to illustrate that in a wedding quilt for the couple.  Her wedding colors were grey and pink, and his favorite colors were turquoise and purple.

Found the fabrics in Anaheim, at my favorite warehouse (!) and a few bits and pieces of other things from the scrap box.  I love the two grays i found for the background.  I like how this combo of 9-patches and 4-patches came together.  They are 4 1/2 inch blocks (but I accidently made the 9 patches 5" blocks (!) so had to arbitrarily trim them down.  That makes the grains uneven, more authentic!

I googled "sand unity ceremony" and liked this quote:  "Just as the grains of sand can never be separated, may the two of you be intertwined together in love for the rest of your lives."

Jackie & Martin's Wedding Quilts

My very sweet young friend married her best friend.  I wanted to make a special set of quilts for her and her husband.  She had requested the batiks, rail fence, large enough to snuggle and a pair!  Actually pretty specific.  In any case, I had a lot of fun shopping for the colors, mixing them up, adding the applique to hers, and putting them together.  The little pillow is for the rings at the wedding, they were attached and passed around so all the guests could warm them and fill them with good wishes and blessings.

Scrappy Triangles Wedding Quilt

This one was made from scraps from the floor, the scrap bin, boxes lying around.  Even the binding came from the scraps of bindings box!  Was also learning how to cut and sew triangles from a ruler.  Plus trying out the new sewing machine fro quilting!  When Em mentioned how much she liked it; it found it's home.  Interesting; I was thinking of her when I made it, since she has an eye for artsy, asymmetrical and non-traditional quilts!

Wedding Quilts Vanessa/Luis

For my brother's daughter Vanessa and her new husband Luis.  I chose a block sometimes called "Steps To The Altar" and a setting sometimes called "Many Trips Around The World." (Thanks, Google!)

The quilt for Vanessa has 25 1.5" squares per block, 42 blocks (That';s 1,260 1.5" squares!) in light ("Low Volume") colors, with some grey and dark blocks helping to define the pattern in the block arrangement.  I put strong blocks towards the center; and made them a little cork-screwy (because I can...) and the more subtle blocks out towards the edges.

The fabrics are scraps and leftovers from other projects.  You may recognize baby quilts, Christmas gifts, children's quilts, Sprout scraps, and some scraps of my Mom's.  I inscribed the saying on the back, "Chains do not hold a marriage together; it is threads, hundreds of tiny threads that sew people together through the years."  I have used it before, frankly I love the symbol of a thread in a wedding quilt sewing a couple together!  The quilt is going to the before and after parties to be signed by guests.

For the groom, the same but different.  Same 1.5" squares, but each block has 36 squares (1,512 squares total.) The color is dark, masculine blues; greens and browns with a lighter selection of fabrics suggesting the pattern. His is inscribed with "Marriage should be a duet.  When one sings the other should clap."  The best advice I could think of! 

These are generous lap quilts, meant to be snuggled under and wrapped up in.  Together; the pair took around 7 weeks to complete (you know with breaks for work and life!) and are very simply machine quilted "in the ditch" between blocks.  Each binding is MOSTLY one fabric, yet each one has a scrap of something else in it; just to avoid perfection and suggest forgiveness.

Very fun, simple yet tedious at times.  Want to do this pattern again!   

A Pair Of Wedding Quilts, Veronica/Jesus

In this pair of wedding quilts, the same quilt is made in different colors, red for love, blue for sky.  The man's quilt is a little larger, due to the block being about an inch larger.  A tiny bit of blue is on the red quilt, and some red (on the back of) the blue quilt, to make sure each quilt is only a part of the whole, the marriage.

Wedding Quilt #2 of 2 Sarah & Ben

For the wife in this pair of dding quilts, I used the same 2 blocks:  Wedding Ring and Steps To The Altar.  Her quilt is primarily red, the color of love, with bits of blue (symbolizing the husband) and a block with a red and blue fabric, symbolizing the new creation, the marriage itself.  Again, th gold wedding rings place the spouse at the center, a must for a successful marriage.

Wedding Quilt #1 of 2 Ben & Sarah

For my oldest nephew when he married I made a pair of quilts, one for him and one for his wife.  I picked complementary colors and made his primarily blue, hers red.  I made one block with a fabric that had both red and blue in it, symbolizing that 2 distinct people meld together in the making of a marriage. The blocks are an old Wedding Ring block and a Steps To The Altar block.  In his, the steps don't always go neatly and straight, but the deviations to the altar add beauty to one's life.  There are unexpected surprises along the blocks, just as in life.  The golden wedding "rings" place the spouses color in the center, as a reminder that the marriage depends on this gesture. 

Dad & Ruth's Wedding

For my father's wedding I made a pair of generous lap quilts, using the easy to make flying geese set in traditional rows.  I made HIS quilt in dark, masculine colors, and hers in lighter feminine colors.  I substituted a few of HIS blocks into HER quilt, and vice versa.  We took the quilts to the reception and parties before the wedding, and they were fully signed by the many friends and family that joined in that day. 

A Wedding Quilt 2012

Small quilt filled with rings (wedding rings, circles, eternity) was passed around the reception and signed by all the guests.

A White and Coral Wedding Quilt: Rob & Andrea

A small lap/wall quilt made to be taken to the wedding and signed and written on by all the guests.