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.

 

Jackie & Martin's Wedding Quilts

My very sweet young friend married her best friend.  I wanted to make a special set of quilts for her and her husband.  She had requested the batiks, rail fence, large enough to snuggle and a pair!  Actually pretty specific.  In any case, I had a lot of fun shopping for the colors, mixing them up, adding the applique to hers, and putting them together.  The little pillow is for the rings at the wedding, they were attached and passed around so all the guests could warm them and fill them with good wishes and blessings.

Tiny 16-Patches

Another Charm Square Project.  The 3" blocks have 16 patches in them, each patch is 3/4" of an inch big.  Keeping everything precise in tiny squares is usually a bigger challenge.  BUT, I can satisfy an need to be instantly gratified, fondle fabrics, start and finish a project in an afternoon AND use a charm pack!  This color scheme is outside of my own norm, kind of glaring and clashing.  The theme of the fabric is robots, circuit boards, gears.

Grey Plates

This little quilt was an experiment in using a few, not-bright colors and crisp white.  Sort of hard for me, I tend to love LOTS and BRIGHTS!  So, some simple dresden plates needle-turn appliqued in circles, with the theme being "grey stripes."  Then quilted by machine in a meandering, fairly dense pattern. A tiny grey and pink paisley inner border and the same fabric for the binding.

Update: SOLD on etsy

Cheerful Hexies

I bought a great bright charm pack and a new template; a half hexagon that cuts 2 half-hexies from each charm.  Then I saw a magazine ad in a catalog that was a pattern and template for about $20, and I realized my half hexies would be perfect, I didn't need to buy another pattern or template!

So, 42 charms, some white muslin, and an afternoon later, here is the darling bright quilt I made!

Updat3: SOLD on etsy