Warm and Cool; Sunshine and Sea Breezes

Made in simple rail-fence design, this was a cool Kaffe Fasset jelly roll and a warm Kaffe Fasset charm pack. Delicious fabrics, just waiting for the right person or occasion.  My 14 year old granddaughter, expressing a wish for a quilt in blues, is just the right person, and Christmas the right occasion.

I spy pets and bugs

For my 6 year old grand-daughter, going through a tomboy phase, the favorite colors right now are blue and yellow.  Dogs are always welcomed, and there is a new fascination with bugs of all types.  So, for Christmas, an "I Spy" quilt featuring her favorite colors and things!

I cut my fabrics into 5" "charms" and constructed this like a split 9-patch. Bright gold in the borders, with little crabs as cornerstones, the charms feature dogs, paw prints, bones and tags, bugs and alligators, and some pigs for luck!  Can you find.... a wiener dog???

Sportsman Quilt

The motifs of the fabrics in this quilt are fish, trees, bears, leaves, stripes. The colors are are nice collection of masculine shades. I made this generous lap quilt for my son Ben, celebrating his first Christmas as a Dad. I can see him cuddling his son while wrapped in this quilt late at night!

This quilt was lost in a house fire in 2015. 

Baby Girl Braids

This design is pretty interesting: a template to be used with 5inch charms or 2 1/2 inch strips.  The pieces can be pieced together to make hexagons, or I like them a lot as braids! In this quilt, I made 4 braid strips.  Instead of placing them side by side as in other quilts, I decided to make them chase around the quilt.  I machine quilted in the ditch around each shape, then free-motion swirls in the center.

This quilt is for the baby daughter of one of my son's childhood friends. Congratulations!

Bow Tie Hugs and Kisses

I started this project with traditional colors and fabric design with a bow-tie block in mind.  No particular amount of blocks or setting decided on. Made with a charm pack, the actual fabric collection determined  the layout and size. I had about 6 or 7 left over charms.  It will be a little table runner!

I like to meander over the surface of a small quilt. Since I bough a bolt of black cotton ON SALE last week, I decided to bind it in black.  Yes, good idea!

Embroidered Blocks

I got the idea for this from a quilt I saw on Pinterest. http://yarnstorm.blogs.com/jane_brocket/2014/03/garden-party.html
I knew I had found the project for the vintage linens I had purchased at estate sales and had in a box in the garage.  I also had a cut up house dress with woven girls and boys I got at a thrift store season end "everything fre" sale in Texas while visiting my dad. I cut 5 1/2 inch squares and put them together in a simple 5X5 grid.

It would like pretty edged with the vintage hand crocheted lace I cut off the edge of one of the tablecloths.

Ocean Waves

This pattern has always fascinated me, made as a set of Half Square Triangles, in concentric sets that swirl and flow, I imagined the illusion of sparkling rainbows across the gently moving water of a sunset over the ocean in my San Diego area home.

This is one of my very favorite quilts.  It is up on the wall during the summer and I always feel the calm peace of the sunset when I look at it.