Las Vegas Quilt

My cousin Patti's husband LOVES Las Vegas. Always has, always will! So this year, when I learned he will he getting a knee replacement I started thinking about a healing quilt. I have made quilts for Patti, for their 3 daughters, but never one just for Alex! So..... Planning. 

A knee quilt? Couldn't picture it..... Legs? Nope, not coming up with any inspiration. Wait! For YEARS I bought and collected GAMBLING fabrics! Dice, cards, roulette, bingo, keno..... If they invented it, I bought a piece of it! 

I kept it simply designed so the fabric collection could do the talking. It's a large lap quilt to recuperate with and then nap under next winter. For Alex. 

 

Juneteenth 2021

In 2021 the US recognized Juneteenth as a holiday. It marks the announcement of emancipation June 19th 1865. The colors are red, green and black (blood, prosperity and soil) of Africa and her people. I made this Juneteenth quilt to gift Laketa in the purchase of her first home.

The back of this quilt is a rich gold and black. 

A Baby Girl Quilt for Leila

 Leila is a nurse, who went to high school with my son (!) who I just love working with. Mother to 2 boys, a NICU nurse, a Cosmetic Procedures RN, and now expecting a BABY GIRL!

A tumbler, alternating with a 4-patch cut into the tumbler shape, surrounded by a 5" border and quilted 1/4" from the blocks. The inspiration for the tumbler 4-patches comes from Missouri Star Quilt Company...

Baby Birdie

Migrating Geese Twin Baby Quilts

 A friend is expecting twins!  A boy and a girl. She requested some quilts that were "twin" themed.  I had 2 beautiful charm packs in stash that really filled that request very nicely.  I coupled it with 10 4 1/4" strips of white/grey cut into blocks to make these quilts. There are pleanty of these migrating geese blocks left over, so I made a little diaper carrying wallet with both sets of colors. 

There are 7 columns of 20 geese units. One column they fly north and the next they fly south. Each quilt is primarily "blue" or "pink" while incorporating 4 blocks of the other color to remind them of their life together in the womb. 

 

Virgen De Guadalupe Quilt

 The fabric I found in my favorite Anaheim Warehouse spoke to me. In fact it shouted to me, Buy Me! Make Me! So, I did, and it sat in stash for several years. 

I went into stash and pulled out a few random other things, like these "milagros" to give it a little variety. I used mainly 4 colors for the square in a square setting, a red, green, blue and yellow small patterns. Quilted along the seam lines, with a nice cotton batting, here they are!

It is a generous lap sized quilt. The binding is strips cut from the squares. 

Sold! On etsy

Peace Out: A Quilt for Myself

 I was inspired by a quilt tutorial online and a collection of unique peace-signs and sixties psychedelic fabrics to make a cuddle quilt just for me!  Set on a black background, with a polyester batting, and the back another in theme fabric, it's so ME and I love it. 

https://modafabrics.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/simply-woven-quilt/

Baby Geese in Green

 I have made a few quilts from this green vehicles collection of fabrics. They are really cute, non traditional and just CUTE! 

So, traditional flying geese, set in columns, and made just because.