Half Square Triangles Quilt

I NEVER get tired of Half Square Triangles!  They can be controlled colors, controlled settings, or wild and wonderful and crazy.  This one is inspired by antique quilts that arranged the units in groups of 9 by color, all facing the same way.  Of course I find it hard to be totally precise in placement, and usually throw in a few squares that don't fit the pattern of style.  Call it a soft spot for misfits, I dunno, but that's where my creative side goes when I am putting a qult together, especially if it's not for any particular person in mind!

So, fairly restrained (for me!) browns, reds, black and whites. 

Happy Geese Quilt 1

For this generous lap quilt, the general idea was "Geese in columns, irregular amounts of them, all flying the same direction.  The geese are dark colored florals and the backgrounds are not."

I tried a layout with some going sideways, and decided that was for a different quilt, a different day!

I went fabric shopping with Shannon, my Co-Granny, in Anaheim and told her my task:  Buy an 8th of a yard of dark florals.  They don't have to match, I just have to LIKE them!  She helped me pick them out.  The backgrounds are all from stash.  Zillions of fabrics in stash!

There is ONE goose, a steely blue single goose, that was made with a scrap from the wedding quilt I made for my Father when he married his sweetheart when they were in their 80's.  A treasured memory of new love found later in life.

I completed a baby sized quilt from the scraps!

Since Shannon LOVES this quilt, I gifted it to her for her birthday. I kept the small one, with the same blue patch, as a memento of both my dad and of Shannon. 

An Abstract Quilt

This small quilt, sized to be a nice table runner, was made to learn a technique. The pieces were layered, then cut freehand with a rotary cutter and re arranged.  Then I hand quilted it, and since it was small, it only got worked on when I traveled.  I enjoyed the colors, the softness of the fabrics and the freedom of the technique!

Tropical Fish Quilt

This little gem was another one inspired by a tutorial by Jenny Doan of Missouri Star Quilts.

https://quiltingtutorials.com/tutorial/make-a-summer-school-quilt-with-jenny

I made mine with a water background I scored on Summer Clearance at Quilt-In-A-Day and 25 charms from my batik charm squares box, so they are left overs and random charms.

Quilted by machine in a lazy, swirly, watery horizontal flow representing water, its the perfect size for hanging on the wall in the dining room.

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.