Grandmother's Vintage Blocks

A friend of mine recently sent me these photos of a quilt I made for her way back in 2002.  She brought me some Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks her grandmother had made. I decided rather than trying to attach them and finish the quilt that way I would applique several on a muslin background.  Some repros fabric in the border, and a large stitch hand quilting finished this little memory quilt!

Mom Quilt

A fun project, gather some children and do handprint/footprint art: the children print with acrylic paint and add details to their prints. They sign and date their blocks. Then a simple arrangement with a charm pack and some triangle corners, a border, and WOW! A moment in time and precious memories are forever saved!

Made Spring break, 2015 . Remembering a moment with Sienna, Olivia and Preston.

Squares and Shadows

This quilt, for me, is very restrained.  In stark white and pastels, solids, the blocks are all the same, no surprise red or green anywhere. I quilted it by machine in an allover 2 inch grid. Laundered, it crinkled up nicely. It's for "a baby."

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Bright Happy Baby Flowers

Experimenting with a setting from a book called "Circle Of Nine." You make 9 blocks (about the number I can make before getting bored!) and then make some half sized rectangles and such for staggering the 9 blocks in a circle. I really like the effect!   This is a little girl quilt, to be donated to a premature baby who is going home from the hospital soon.

The charm pack was named "LOL"

Birthday for a Momma

What mother doesn't delight in little reminders of their precious children?  So I got my grandkids to make me some handprints (or in the case of the new baby footprints!) on muslin squares.  Then I set them in a bright happy collection of charms and bordered it all with some Happy Birthday Cakes.

Happy 34th birthday to Amber. 

Little Cabanas

Just a darling small wall quilt to celebrate springy tropical colors and themes!

Arrowheads for Shannon

A lightweight spring quilt for the other grandmother of my Grandson.  Made with a 1/8ths pack of 12 fabrics (fabric of the month club!) and some white on white that belonged to my mother, and was in her Irish Chain prize winning quilt she made for my niece Carrie many years ago.  At one time she wanted to add a larger border to her hand-quilted double bed sized quilt, and so bought yards and yards of the fabric.  The quilt was already finished and bound.... THAT sounded like a project!  She didn't remake it, my niece adores it as is, and I have been able to add my mother's fabric to important sentimental quilts over the years.

Gifted to Shannon