Sam's Patriotic Picnic Quilt

My husband and I met Sam first as a boy who played guitar and attended our church.  Once a year, the children led the worship, and Pete got to know Sam when he coached Sam to play the worship music for Youth Sunday when Sam was around 10 years old.

Through the years, Pete and Sam participated in music together, and when Sam was around 15, Pete started a youth Praise Band and Sam was the cornerstone of guitar all through his high school years.

Now Sam is a young man, and he is leaving San Diego to continue his college preparations and study Forestry at Humboldt State.  He is ultimately interested in Conservation and we couldn't be more excited for this next phase of his life.

Congratulations, Sam.  Please take this picnic quilt and use it a lot!

The back is inscribed using rubber stamps in acrylic craft paint with the blessing often used at the end of services: "Go in peace, to love and serve the Lord."

Ice Cream Summer Quilt

A co-worker, whose baby is turning 2, asked me one evening at work if I could make her daughter an "Ice Cream Cone Quilt."  She was decorating the room and the fact that her baby was leaving a crib going to a Toddler Bed.  At first I looked on Pinterest (of course) but wasn't inspired.  Then I just started thinking of the components that make up an ice cream cone.  A triangle, of course, and a half circle.  I can do THAT!

Next I saw the perfect fabric for the cones at a Summer Clearance at Quilt In A Day.  So I looked for a background fabric, and then searched my charm packs for some light, fun fabrics for ice cream.  Of course, all kids drop their ice cream at some point, so I had to include that.

Texas Geese in Flight Quilt

Da is 92, and I fly out every three months to visit.  So, I went out Father's Day, and rented a car, and we had fun!  We drove out to the country, and went and visited the former house he owned. We went to church on Sunday, and he saw a lot of old friends.  We ate BBQ and we went to a QUILT SHOP!  Ha ha, my suggestion of course!

I bought a yard of fabric on sale, a red with little white birds and tiny dark blue anchors on it, and that became the inspiration for this quilt which is a reminder of Dad. 

Flying Geese.  Because I love to make them. The block arrangement is called Dutchman's Puzzle.

It's 48 X 60, stitched in the ditch, a pretty simple quilt in red, white, black and grey... and a little navy.  And ummm, a patch or so of yellow.  Just because.

Treasure Box Baby Quilt

Missouri Star puts up a tutorial every week, and tey look so impressive that I often must IMMEDIATELY make one!  So, with this quilt.
They designed it, named it, picked out te colors.  I omitted one small border out of laziness (and a desire to keep the width under 39" so I didn't have to piece the back....) and here is my version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcnyg_ZtLg

SOLD on Etsy

 

Split Four Patch Baby Quilt

I was commissioned to make a baby boy quilt and FAST! for a prematurely born baby. The Split four patch (or disappearing four patch) is always quick, fast, fun and looks like a LOT of complex piecing was done.

Split Nine Patch Graduation Quilt

My granddaughter Miranda has graduated high school!  Congratulations!  Her other grandma and I shopped together for fabrics to make her a large lap quilt to mark this achievement.

Pink and blacks, a combination of girly, elegant, fun!  Just like her.  She excells in dance, so dancing is featured, as well as travel, adventure and beauty.

Everyone in the family inscribed the back, so it's full of greetings, love and memories and good wishes. 

Celestial Stars Quilt

I had a pack of charm squares that inspired this quilt.  The dark blues have stars and planets and swirls on them, and they contrasted so well with the mustardy yellow suns and swirls.  Then I saw the pattern on a Missouri Star tutorial... and the quilt idea was born!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oahqzxvUuDs

Now, my setting.  Not as originally planned.  I made 4 blocks at one sitting, and came back later and finished 2 blocks.  When I went to arrange the blocks on the table, I realized I had made mirror images of the sets.  They did not flow into each other they way they were supposed to!

So I decided to offset the blocks so their edges would not show that I had messed up the design.  I had only a 1 1/2" strip of the background fabric left over when I was done, so that was lucky I had just enough to set them!  The plan had been to make a 36" square for hanging on the quilt rack in the dining room, but the setting made it bigger, so I added a border and finished it as a lap quilt instead.  

It was gifted to a friend at church as a memorial quilt.