Photos and histories of quilts I made from 2018 and 2019
My Mother's friend Julie had experienced some sad times, but now has the
happy
arrival of a baby granddaughter to celebrate, so Mom wanted to bless her with
a quilt.
to find a storybook panel that used all of these elements.
This quilt came about because of some 5" squares I bought at an estate
sale. They included some
Paul Revere blocks that I just loved. I started collecting red, white,
and blue squares that had a
patriotic or all-American theme.
The result was this quilt, which I shared with our friend John. He loves the flag and appreciated the quilt.
The quilting design as seen from the back.
The Paul Revere fabric that kicked off the idea.
The fabric has metallic gold thread running through it, I love how it turned out.
A shot of the quilting from the back
I think I'm going to keep this one, I really like it. After all, it has shiny gold accents and
shiny is my favorite color!
Two of my dear friends (who are also friends) had baby girls this spring,
so I
made them matching quilts for their little sweeties. Finished in
February 2018.
Wei & Jiayi's Charlotte + Aaron & Ellie's Lydia are both beautiful
girls.
I'm blessed to be a part of their lives.
Here's a fun set of photos Ellie shared of Lydia using her new quilt.
Love it!
25. Harper's Quilt
Neice Cami and her husband Logan were blessed with baby Harper in
May. This is a quilt I made for them.
26. Hunter's quilt
but I decided I wanted to make a quilt for all of the babies of this next generation.
I started my make-up quilts with Hunter, and now I owe a quilt to Lily, who is almost 3.
It is backed in navy blue flannel and quilted with irregular straight lines.
I sewed one roll into strips in September and the other in November - on two different machines. I felt
sure I had an accurate "scant 1/4 inch seam" marked on both machines. However, when I tried to put
the two halves of the quilt together, they were two very different sizes.
I was so discouraged that I almost threw the whole project away.
Instead I put it in my closet and left it
there for several months. Eventually I was able to face the hours of
ripping that had to be done. I ripped
the two halves apart and ripped out each tiny row of half of the quilt.
I re-stitched that half and put it back
together. It took so long and so much work, but now I really like how it
turned out. I'm so glad I did not
give up on this quilt!
A glimpse of the wrestling match that is quilting a large quilt on a domestic machine.
Showing it in the Eureka Montana Quilt Show, August 2018
Earlier this year I made baby quilts for baby Hunter and baby Harper.
Then I realized that I had totally missed making a baby quilt for Lily, who is
now 3 years old.
That worked out well for her since she was able to tell me what style of quilt
she would like to have. I got that she liked pink, princesses, and the
movie Frozen.
Out of that came this quilt which features the two Frozen princesses, along
with large quantities of pink, sparkling, Frozen fabric. The backing is
flannel to maximize the snuggle factor.
It was harder to do than I imagined it would be!
different patterns in the borders.
I
used large-scale Seminole Patchwork in the borders which I felt gave the quilt
a Native American feel.
(Fitting,
since I'm 1/4 Cherokee and my Mom is half.)
try it out. I used it to cut the center star and the four edge stars for this medallion quilt.
in this style. I decided to make my own version of it.
have my bright colors! So I added a pop of blue to the borders.
I used a small polka-dot on the back which can make you dizzy if you get too close!
The new method I learned made it a lot easier.
My
sister loves all things Halloween, so I mixed things up one year by giving her
a
Halloween quilt for Christmas. She didn't see that coming!
I
used a great panel I found at the Flathead Quilt Show in Kalispell, MT along
with some
pineapple blocks and a Seminole Patchwork outer border.
I replaced it with a snuggly blanket and gifted her the abandoned fur for her future creative
Halloween projects.
I took what I learned making Brodie a weighted blanket at Christmas and used it to make one
for my Etsy shop.
which also sold from my Etsy shop to a very appreciative grandmother.
Wal-Mart
has now undercut me on these. They can sell very nice weighted blankets for
what I pay for the weighted pellets alone, so I'm now out of this business!
(Which is OK
by me, they are pretty time-consuming to make!)
creative in making a larger version. I love how it turned out, and I guess I wasn't the only one - it sold the first
day it was in my shop! I'm going to make another one sometime soon.
show up in the frame with my quilts!
This one was purchased from my Etsy
store by a repeat customer before it was
even officially listed. What a blessing!
The bunnies are working in the garden, fishing, and chasing butterflies.
of these cute bunny scenes. I wanted to make baby blankets out of them, so far this is
the only one I've finished.
This is one of several quilts I've made using patterns by Trudie
Hughes. I have many of
her "Template Free Quilts" books and enjoy her patterns.
of the shiny silver fabric.
for more quilting every few months until someone finally stopped me by buying it from
my Etsy store. Completed in March of 2019.
I did outline quilting on the baskets and a flower in the white
space. Also a smaller
flower in the yellow setting triangles.
I found several old quilt tops at estate sales recently, and decided to rescue them from
obscurity. Turns out they were poorly constructed and quite difficult to square up, but
I have this one done and am glad to see it is now a useful item. Completed March 2019.
I think this counts as full size, it is shown here on a queen bed.
My mother-in-law Rose wanted to do something kind for my sister-in-law Mary Beth, so she asked me to make a lap quilt for her. Rose found scraps from a quilt she had made for her about 20 years ago, and wanted me to incorporate as many of those scraps as possible. I put together a little rail fence design and backed it with a self-binding style using super soft fleece. It was all good except I got some excess fleece so I limited the amount of quilting I did in order to avoid puckers.
Earlier this year, I made this quilt by taking a pattern I'd purchased and
modifying it to make it much larger.
It sold before I had it finished, and it was also pretty fun to make, so I
thought I'd do it again.
I quilted the white part with lines done in teal thread.
The quilting actually looks best from the back side.
This quilt sold in the Eureka Montana Quilt Show, in early August. It
is always such a
huge compliment when someone purchases one of my quilts. Truly an
honor.
I kept seeing these beautiful embroidered table cloths at estate sales, so I've started buying them
and using them as the foundation for making a quilt. This one also incorporated the coordinating 8 napkins.
The blue stars that go through all the pink parts took me FOREVER to
do.
Truly, it felt like an eternity. But I love how they turned
out.
I rarely love what I do (I have a black belt in fault-finding for my quilt work),
however, I loved this.
machine, this also meant it took a lot of time and physical effort. But worth it!
Buddy "helps" as I try to get some measurements and
photos.
Thankfully he was not muddy at this time.
for about two weeks, but am thrilled someone liked it enough to want it for their own.
I can't take credit for how beautiful this is, it's all in the
fabric. Eureka is home to Jackie Robinson, a
world-famous quilter and fabric designer. This is her latest fabric line
and is some of the most beautiful
fabric I've seen. And let me tell you, I see a LOT of
fabric!
My only goal with making this table runner was to avoid ruining the beauty of the fabric.
Vintage Mice Baby Blanket
August 2019
I found this fabric at a quilter's estate sale this summer and loved how it turned out.
Vintage Crazy Quilt in Lavender
September 2019
tops at an estate sale and wanted to turn them into usable quilts. I didn't know
how much work I was in for! I certainly wouldn't have bought 4 if I knew!
for the quilting.
September 2019
it turned out, it is one of my favorites. Rose had given me this fabric last year so that made
it even more special.
I used fleece backing so it is very soft and snuggly.
October 2019
However, I spent over a week quilting this in great detail, so I'm counting it as one of my quilts!
October 2019
sweet little floral blanket for their new daughter Ariel.
October 2019
Our sweet friend Dick expressed an interest in a patriotic quilt once,
so I decided
he should have one. He is a veteran and an all around wonderful
man. It was my
honor to make something for him. He wanted a twin size, this fit his
bed just right.
42. Bright Roses Lattice
November 2019
Then I happened upon this fabric and knew I had to make it using
this pattern. I love this quilt! It is beautiful.
November 2019
The chickens were printed, intended to be sewn together to make pillows.
I appliquéd them instead into sets of mother hens and chicks running
about their business.
December 2019
the fabric to make one of my own. I really like it and hope some native boy will be
blessed by it.
December 2019
I love these colors together, and how it came out.
This one is backed in fleece too, which makes them so nice for a baby.