Pat's X's and O's Quilt

My friend Pat pieced this from all different fabrics.  No two of the coffins are the same.  The pattern is repeated sometimes, but always in a different color.   I quilted some connected hooks in the dark green border, and did the math to make them meet in the center.  In the body of the quilt I did line dancing, with a hook coming out from the corner of each coffin.  There is also line dancing in the setting squares, but it doesn't show well as the thread is an exact match.  It creates a great secondary pattern, and looks awesome on the back.  The back is two different fabrics.  The quilt is 67 x 82.

 

Close up of quilting

 

 

Hooks in borders

 

corner quilting pattern

 

 

quilting pattern show on blue backing

 

tan backing

Margaret's Flying Geese

Margaret bought this top and had me quilt it so she can enter it in our show in March.  I used a maroon thread in the borders and sashing, putting a paisley design in the borders to go along with the fabric, and diagonal loops in the sashings.  I used a grey thread in the geese doing loops with line dancing.  The backing is a batik that has most of the same colors in it.  The blue color is really a dark maroon that matches the front.  It's 56 x 72.

 

 

                                                            close up of quilting

 

 

 

paisley design in border

 

                                                                           backing

 

Fit to be a Hero

I did this as a quilt-a-long with Judy Laquidara at Patchwork Times.  It will find a home through the Quilt of Valor program after it hangs in our quilt show in March.  The entire top was made from stash - I only had to buy fabric for the backing - a light blue with navy, white, and red stars.  I quilted a medium meander in the dark outside border, feathers in the red and blue borders, and a squiggly line around the 1" squares in the middle border.  I spent a long time doing Baptist Fans in the body of the quilt.  A first time for me - I love the way they look, but boy do they take a long time!   I also made a matching presentation case.   This quilt finished at 66 x 82. 

 

 

borders
 

 

close up showing Baptist Fans



pillowcase

Backing - light blue with navy and red stars

 

 



Jelly Bargelly

Thanks to Deb Moffit at Sew Fun Fabrics in Chesterton for graciously teaching this class to just two of us.  Thanks also for the great lesson on mitered corners.  She helped me to cross two things off my quilting bucket list - a Bargello quilt, and learning how to miter borders.  I quilted diagonal lines in each little square which enhanced the curved effect of the piecing.  The border quilting was simply lines straight out from the piecing seams.  This is 55 x 82,  This quilt was awarded first place in our 2014 quilt show.

Mitered corner

 

quilting lines look curved

 

 

Quilt of Valor

Becky pieced this for me to quilt.  It's 60 x 70.  There are stars in the larger pieces, and straight lines in the spinning triangles.  The star border has feathers, the red border has wiggly zig zag lines, and the outer blue border has a meander.

 

two outer borders

red inner sashing

Stars

 



Charity Rag Quilt

This is another 36 x 48 rag quilt for the Comfort Quilts charity that my guild supports. 
The goal for this one was to use up the orange fabric! 

Wonky Wishes

This is a table runner and wall-hanging/table center piece made from Bonnie Hunter's pattern "Wonky Wishes".  These will be in the silent auction for my guild's show in March.  I did a simple meander in the colored sections using a variegated thread, and an 8-pointed star in the white sections.  The table runner is 12 x 24, and the other piece is 24 x 24.  There is a striped floral fabric on the back.

 

 

 

Quilt of Valor

This was pieced by Ann M. in Michigan.  We were paired as a team through the Quilt of Valor Organization.  It is a very simple pattern, but all of the fabrics come together to create a vibrant quilt.  The navy border pulls it all together.  I used a dark tan thread which blends with most of the fabrics, and put a star in each brick, with a squiggly line to connect them.  I added a small meander in the navy border.  It's 60 x 66

Random Bricks



Stars in each brick

Navy border - color didn't come out well in photo





Martha's Butterflies

This was pieced by Martha for her sister, and she just wanted a simple meander on it. The largest blocks are of a butterfly focal fabric.  The backing fabric is the same gold as the outer border.  It's 80 x 80

variety of fabrics included, and borders

 

butterfly focal fabric
 

 



Kathy's grand-daughter

Kathy made this top for her grand-daughter's high school graduation.  She had the white blocks and markers set out at the open house so all the friends and family could write a note of congratulations, or good wishes for the future - whatever.  Then the two of them assembled the blocks into this beautiful top and passed it along to me for quilting.  I used white thread and put straight lines in the setting triangles, swirls in the block edges, a tiny scallop in the written areas, a zig zag in the border,  and little flower petals in the colored triangles.  I'm sure her grand-daughter will love it with all the love and memories in it forever.

swirls in block edges

full block

straight lines in setting triangles and zig zag in the border

memory block with flower petals

close up of blocks

Replicating Tied Quilts

Nancy's Mom made two of these - for Nancy and her sister.  Nancy's children have used them, and they were well loved and almost totally worn out.  So Nancy had me copy them so her kids would have new ones.  They are white on both sides, tied with pink and white yarn, and are 40 x 60.

 

 

 

Pat's 30's broken dishes

My friend Pat made this - a broken dishes variation - using 30's reproduction fabrics.  I love all the cute little patterns in the fabrics - pumpkins, snowmen, flowers, polka dots, etc.  I used a circle template in the yellow border, ruler for zig zags in the red border, and line dancing and ruler work in the body.  We both love how the stars were created in the alternate block by quilting to a point near the middle of each triangle.   I used an off white thread that blends perfectly - even on the red back.
Its 57 x 75

 

 



fun fabrics

borders

line dancing and stars





backing

 

Nicki's T-shirts

Nicki is a past student who played basketball and soccer, so this was a really fun quilt for me to do.  She had lots of shirts to pick from, so we ended up choosing 3 for the back.   She played basketball and soccer, I quilted basketballs all over, which look awesome in orange on the back!   I added an embroidered basketball to her label.  The quilt is 72 x 93.





basketball on orange backing

Basketball on front

 

Shirts on back


 

Presentation Cases

I was on a roll last week when I was making presentation cases for the two Quilts of Valor that I finished.  They are so fun and easy to do that I just kept going.  The body fabric of the first becomes the header on the second, and on it goes!  These are the three extras that were passed on to our state rep along with the two quilts in their own cases.  Sometimes quilts are donated without the cases, so they will have a few extras on hand.