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!

Too Young To Quilt?

Ryan's mom April helped me take a footprint (Ryan would NOT allow a handprint!) for his Christmas ornament.  Youngest quilt class I have done yet!

When he gets bigger will he still want to paint on quilts?  I bet yes! 

Racquel's Christmas Table Runner

I could always count on Racquel to talk me OUT of buying more fabric!  Since I have a serious fabric hoarding addiction, when I would check what's for sale each day (they post at midnight and I work all nighters!) Racqui would look over my shoulder and encourage me to "just y no!"  Well....... until she saw THIS Christmas collection!  She loved it and egged me on to buy it and make it for her!

And no wonder!  They are beautiful fabrics.  So I bought the charm pack and made a simple table runner for her Christmas table.  

Baby Memorial Quilt

Sometimes I buy some fabric and even stitch it together.  These fabrics were in a collection of fat 8ths I got during a quilt run a few years back.  They are sweet, innocent, old fashioned classical baby fabrics.  I put them together, found a great stripe from my stash for the mitered border, then it went in a closet.  Until just the right baby came along, who's brief life mattered so much to his parents.  I knew just which quilt top I had, and pulled it out and finished it.

  Baby Dale, 2009.

Girls Quilting Day 2013

I LOVE to introduce people to quilting.  Sometimes, it "clicks!" and a new quilter is produced.  So when my friends bring their daughters over (age 3 1/2 and up!) we have a blast bringing out the paints and stamps and creating a first quilt.

The little girls were between 3 1/2 and 5, I had 3 little ones and an 11 year old over. I may have offered too many options for so little time; next time I may do only painting, stamping and sewing buttons. 

The girls were all quite proud of their creations.  I think EMMA was the most intense.......... maybe she will be a quilter some day! 

  

One Thousand Pyramids

Been wanting to make a thousand pyramids quilt for awhile.  Made literally from the scraps on the floor and white muslin.  Machine quilted in the ditch with triangles in the border.  These are 4" triangles, measured with a equilateral triangle ruler.

Watermelon Summer Quil

A light weight, light hearted summer quilt for taking afternoon naps.  Half square triangles made from 5 inch squares.  Very light, poly batting an a few watermelon appliques cut from the feature fabric and placed along th right side border.  Quickly put together over 2 afternoons.