Courthouse Steps

This joyful quilt is the only time I have ever made this pattern: Steps to the Courthouse.  It's like a log cabin, but the pieces for opposite colors, rather than circling around. Easy and fun to make, perfect for scraps, don't know why I haven't made this again!

I made this quilt to celebrate a return to quilting after a sad period in my life.  Several years later, Christina told me her young daughter used it at night to keep monsters from under her bed!  I must have filled the quilt with joyful enerrgy when I sewed it! 

Valentine's Quilt

Collecting threads is a hobby and obsession for m.  I might spend a year (or more!) collecting a color or theme, with no idea how I will use it.  So it was with "hearts."  Valentine's and romance themes were purchased at Quilt shows, online, traded for, or some was purchased while visiting my folks in Texas. 

I'll have to take another photo, since I still have this quilt.  It's set with a Vintage Valentine in the center, then wonky, random strips around in a sort of log cabin style.  The blocks were tilted and set in rows.  I made a border of prairie points in the bright themed fabrics, and a sleeve for hanging on the back.

This quilt hangs in the dining room on my hand-made quilt rack that belonged to my mother and was made for her by a friend in Texas.  I put it up in February... naturally!  In San Diego, winter is usually giving up by February, so it's also a symbolic change from cold weather.