Autumn Braids

Bought the fabrics for this orange/browns wall quilt on a foray to my favorite fabric warehouse in Anaheim.  had my friend Sharon with me who went CRAZY at one of the fabric selections.  Sharon felt it was "spring" not "autumn" and therefore did NOT belong.  I loved the color, and the idea of a little bit of Spring peeking forward (or back?) in my fall quilt.

The braids were a bit challenging; the vertical rows got "wavy" and I had to do streching and pulling to make them fit.  It all came together when I quilted it by machine.  I do not particularly like autumn, since I LOVE summer, but this bright quilt is a consolation prize since I really find it bright and cheerful.

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Autumn Wall Quilt

I bought a little kit at a Quilt run several years back.  Not my usual colors or style, but it was a promo kit for $5..... Never one to pass up a bargain, I bought it.  The idea was each store sold a little kit for a "strip" and you put all the strips together into a quilt.  I bought only this one strip, and made it into three rows instead, and into a little wall quilt I put up once the weather begins to turn cool.
The little quilt shop has a sign printed by the Quilt Shop (Fat Quarters) that indeed identifies this quaint little house/shop as "Fat Quarters."  The shop indeed is a 2 story old house with fabrics, treasures, patterns and goodies tucked into all sorts of nooks and crannies.  The theme of the store is usually the darker, somber "country" colors, of which I am not usually drawn.

An Old Halloween Quilt

I was bringing out the Halloween quilts and noticed I had not photographed some made many years ago.  Checked the back of this one; it's from 2002.

I recall getting the fabrics as a fat quarter collection, probably some fabric of the month club.  (I still indulge...... yeah, I have a lot of quilts "to be made!"

Simple shoo fly block, used scraps in the thin border.  The binding is plain black.

Halloween Quilt for a Little Girl!

)There are tricks to making this complicated looking block from 2 1/2 inch strips.  So I gathered new and old Halloween fabrics together and started sewing, twisting, cutting.  I love the way it looks!
For Carrie, for the baby to wrap up in during October!

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Crazy Patches

Just 4 small blocks.  The fabrics are old and tea or coffee dyed to give them a nice aged warmth.  There is a piece of a table napkin lace, a scrap of ecclesiastical embroidery my Mom made in the 60's, a cross stitch on a linen napkin, and my own embroidered butterfly.  Pieces of an old apron, a dog ragged scrap of a good old dog's neck scarf, old buttons, lace and trim.   I have not done the traditional stitching over it, but I still might!

Fresh Little Quilt

I just adore the green background and border fabric I used on this charm pack quilt of half square triangles.  It could easily be a baby quilt or a wall quilt celebrating the colors and feel of spring!  40 charms, 40 green 5" squares, 3" borders, and it's done!

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Alaskan Fireweed

This wall quilt features the Alaskan Native flower, Fireweed.  There is a little poem about the end of fireweed's season when the beautiful red blooms turn white and fluffy.  My friend Sharon brought me the fireweed fabric from Alaska when she went there for a vacation.  t's a very simple "3 color quilt" made with large blocks and goes together in only a couple hours.  I'll hang it after Labor Day to signal the summer's end.