Casazza

Quilts I Made in 2024 Count: 41	Back to Home Page

Casazza Creations is my Etsy shop name.
159. Modern Mountains Sold at EMQS 2025.
I reused this pattern I'd previously made as a baby quilt into this fun, modern design for the Flathead Quilt Show's theme quilt category.



	I spent a lot of time on the quilting. I redid that sun about 4 times!
160. Tobacco Valley Animal Shelter Donation Donated to the TVAS annual silent auction fundraiser.





161. Evening Stroll Sold at EMQS 2024.

A larger version of a Fabric Cafe pattern, using some neat fabric I'd had for awhile.




162. Happy Hummingbirds Sold via Etsy to one of Mom's dear friends and a favorite repeat customer in Westville, OK.
I was challenging myself to use up some scrap fabric that month. This adorable quilt was one of the results of that challenge.


163. Modern Mountain Range Baby Quilt Sold via Etsy to a friend from back home who currently lives in Siloam Springs, AR.

When making the Modern Mountains large quilt earlier, I had these pieces leftover.	I decided to make something good out of them, and this quilt was born.


This shows the quilting, also done in a modern style.


164. Trail Mix Moose Sold at EMQS 2024.
	This was a quilt kit I purchased at the Quilt Gallery in Kalispell.



165. Scraps N Threads Guild Mystery Quilt 2024 Sold at EMQS 2024.
	Our local guild did a mystery quilt together for two years in a row. This was the first one. A mystery quilt is like a block of the month, except you don't know what you are making so you have to guess at the colors and be surprised by how it turns out.




Soft Velvet Lap Quilt Kept for personal use.
	My friend Stef had this for years and decided she wasn't going to finish it. She brought it to a guild meeting as a giveaway, which I gladly took! I love these bright colors, vintage fabrics, and it's soft feel.





166. Turtle Baby Sold via Etsy to a lady in Elkhart, IN.
	This was part of my 'use up your scraps' challenge I was doing.








167. Soaring Eagle Split Scene Sold via Etsy to a man from Rye, CO.
	This is one of my favorites. The pattern is called, "Split Scene".





	These quilts look best if you do custom quilting on the panel, but I haven't been brave enough to do it often at this point. This one turned out well.


168. Cedarcrest Braid in Brown Sold at EMQS 2024.

I made this pattern up. It uses a quilt back that I sliced up and put back together with borders in between. I loved it.






Flannel Farm Sold at EMQS 2024.
	On a trip to one of our favorite spots, Coeur d'Alene Idaho, I found a bunch of partially completed quilt tops at a Goodwill store. This one only needed to be quilted and an adorable quilt was born.



169. Moose Sighting Sold at EMQS 2024 to MIL Rose, as a gift for nephew Braden.
	I had a lot of fabric leftover from the "Trail Mix Moose" quilt I made earlier in the year. I worked hard to find a pattern that would maximize the fabric I had left. It came out nice!






	Braden says he uses it at college, that's so cool!
170. Cedarcrest Falls - Blue Sold to MIL Rose for nephew Cody.

This is an enlargement of a pattern called Cedarcrest Falls. That top part is actually sky with a bird in it, it just looks white in the photos.



171. Scraps N Threads Murder Mystery Quilt Sold at the Flathead Quilt Guild show 2024.
	Our quilt guild started a fun tradition this year - a two-day, local quilt retreat (where we go home at night) that's a mystery quilt combined with solving a "murder mystery". It's a hoot!




172. Quilts for Heroes 2024 Donated to the QFH program at EMQS 2024.




	I quilted it with a freehand stars design.
173. Quilting Friends Sold at EMQS 2024.





Etsy Star Sold to a local lady in Eureka, MT.
	I was looking around on Etsy one day and saw this beautiful star quilt top for sale. I really wanted to be the one who turned it into something useful so I bought it. It turned out to be difficult to quilt, it was made from a few fabrics that were not quilting cotton. But it's still pretty.






174 - 176. Spirited Horse Queen #4, 5, and 6 All three of these sold via Etsy to customers in New Berlin, WI, Riverside, AL, & Rural Hall, NC.
	Yes, I was at it again, I made MORE of these. This was the 6th queen size in this pattern, but there were also two done in gray and one full size. Yes folks, so far that's 9 quilts of the same pattern. To be honest, I also made another one for my niece Kaitlyn's wedding shower, but I didn't put it into my list at the time. I'm not renumbering them all now!







177. Summer Breeze Kid Quilt

This was me not wanting to waste anything. These were the edges I cut off of my #94 quilt, Summer Breeze. It got wounded during the quilting process so I cut off the sides of it.	I was able to use "Quilt as you Go" methods to put the pieces of the edges together in a fun kid-sized quilt.


178. Electric Stars Sold at EMQS 2024
	I had been saving this fabric for years, waiting for just the right project. I finally made up this pattern for those amazing fussy-cut blocks and it made a striking quilt. This was one of those quilts that I made just before EMQS and then it sold, leaving me to feel like I never got to enjoy it properly.







179. Estate Sale Blocks Sold at EMQS 2024.
	This is another quilt that sold within a month of my making it, leaving me to miss it. I found these string-pieced blocks at an estate sale years ago. They weren't sized very well, so I kept putting off using them. Finally I decided to trim them WAY down to get to the most accurate and reliably stitched parts. The blocks were upholstery fabric and had come with some extra, uncut fabric. I used that for the sashing and borders. This quilt turned out SO pretty in person. It was also extremely heavy.







180. Woodland Critters - Queen Sold via Etsy to a lady in Eagle River, Alaska.
	I don't like to do appliqué, so that's only one of the mysteries of why on earth I decided to make a child-styled, fully appliquéd quilt in a Queen size. It took two years for the right buyer to find this one. I worked SO hard on it, spent forever making it, and had to sell it the same price as my other quilts because it was just so impractical. It was super cute though, you should have seen it in person.


It was done using Quilt as you Go methods.	The pattern is called Woodland Critters by Shiny Happy World.


	It won a ribbon at a show!
181. Woodland Critters Baby for Tripp One of my Mom's dearest friends was having her first grandbaby so Mom asked me to make a small version of this for him, personalized. Mom is an exception to my "no custom orders" rule!!




	For fun, I entered it into the Cherokee Holiday quilt show in Tahlequah, OK. Here my sister Desirae checks it out at the show.


It won a ribbon for being the "world traveler" - quilt from furthest away.


182. Denim Circles Baby Sold via Etsy to someone in Grawn, MI.
	The fabric for this was part of the haul I found at a Coeur d'Alene Goodwill store. I soon found out why the lady didn't finish it. This was HARD! Thank goodness it was a small quilt, I wouldn't have made it through anything larger. It's a special technique where you take large denim circles, put a small square of batting & fabric inside the circle, flip the sides of the circle in, and sew it all down with a zig-zag stitch. Then zig-zag each square together. Since it's denim, it's heavy!






183. Neon Stars for Baby Sold via Etsy to my mother, for the grandbaby of one of her friends.
	I had four blocks leftover from making my "Neon Stars" quilt, the perfect number for a baby



185. Mountain Lake EMQS 2025. I got to meet the people just as they were deciding to buy it, fun!
	Rose actually commissioned this quilt for my nephew Cody, but I wasn't home when she came to get it and she ended up selecting a different quilt. That's all fine, but I put extra work and love into it, thinking it was going to family - so that's a bonus for the eventual owner!
The brown fabric looked like rocks and the blue looked like water.	It got a 3rd place ribbon in the Rendezvous Days 2025 quilt show.


Creamy tan backing.	I worked hard on the quilting, the rocks looked 3-D with the quilting on them.

184. Modern Mountains Challenge Quilt Sold via Etsy to a favorite repeat customer from Westville, OK.
	There is a category at the Flathead Quilt show where you create a very small quilt or wall-hanging using scraps of the fabric they put into that year's raffle quilt. This was me using the "Misty Mountains" pattern for a 3rd time with that special fabric.




185. Watercolor Blue Sold at EMQS 2025.

This was me using a large quilt back as a panel and borders. I'd done this once before with this same fabric line, it's such beautiful fabric.



187. Blooming Roses Sold via Etsy to a lady in Athens, OH.
	Eric and I made a date of a trip to the Bigfork Quilt Show one year. While there, I bought this quilt kit at the boutique. It sewed up so beautifully. The fabric was just gorgeous.







188. Nine Stars - Quilts for Heroes Donation Quilt 1 Donated to the QFH program at EMQS 2025.
	Quilts for Heros is a part of the EMQS show which displays patriotic quilts, then after the show they are donated to the PTSD ward of the nearest veteran hospital. I make at least one quilt for this worthy cause each year.





189. Star Bubble - Quilts for Heroes Donation Quilt 2 Donated to the QFH program at EMQS 2025.

While making the "Nine Stars" quilt above, I accidentally made a whole bunch of units with the colors reversed. Rather than throw them away, I made up a new design and made a second donation quilt.
190. Sunbonnet Sue Sold at EMQS 2025.
	My Mom gave me a box of these old Sunbonnet Sue blocks one year at Christmas. The box included the fabric needed to make more. I only had to make 3 more to get this layout to work.
	It turned out really cute!

	Those old fabrics were a bit dingy, but it was so fun to give new life to those abandoned blocks.

191. Upholstery Sampler Still for sale in my Etsy shop.
	I found a book of super fun & funky upholstery samples in our local thrift store. It took some work to get them out of the book and sized correctly, but what a fun project! I had some vintage curtain fabric I put with it and a super-soft flannel/cotton sheet for a backing. I love this quilt!!





192. Blue Flowers Lap Quilt Sold to my Mom for a donation to North Carolina weather victims.
	A friend from High School was volunteering at the weather disaster in North Carolina. She made friends with two ladies there and wanted to supply them with quilts. She mentioned this to my Mom, who immediately commissioned me to make two, cheerful, blue & yellow lap quilts. This is the first of the two. Mom wouldn't let me donate them to her, she insisted on buying them. Just so you know that I did offer!
This is a Fabric Cafe pattern.



193. Bright Steps Lap Quilt Sold to my Mom for a donation to North Carolina weather victims.

Another Fabric Cafe pattern. They make great easy patterns!



194. Reindeer Christmas Lap Quilt Sold to my sister-in-law Kristi at the 2024 Timbers Christmas Bazaar.

These were actually two unrelated panels that just happened to look great together. This quilt just glowed when you saw it in person. Very fun.



195. Sunflower Lap Quilt Sold on Etsy to a customer in Apple Valley, MN.




196. Bugling Elk Purchased by MIL Rose for nephew Colter.
	This was a unique kind of quilt kit I purchased - it didn't include the panel, just the green border part. It wasn't quite large enough for the panel I wanted to use it with, so I put those gaps in there and decided it looked just fine like that.



My nephew Colter is a hunting and fishing guide in the back country of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, so it's a perfect panel for him.	I did a lot of work on the quilting for this, it took me ages!
Purchased quilt - Parade of Roses by Lori Marvel
I've been admiring this quilt since 2019 and this year I finally took the plunge and bought it from my friend Lori. (I call her my friend, Eric calls her my "quilting crush"!) It's true, I do admire her greatly, but not just for her amazing quilting talents. She is also one of the kindest, most generous, intelligent, and nurturing person I've ever met. OK, so maybe I do have a sort of crush on her. She's a great person to look up to! This quilt was on the cover of the July/August 2019 issue of Love of Quilting magazine. I bought it for my guest room, but every time we have guests I put it away because it's such a treasure to me. I guess I need to hang it on the wall if I ever want to look at it!









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