Rag quilt

I made this this past winter but forgot to get a photo.  It was donated to our guild's charity, and I finally managed to track it down and get a photo.  It's a rag quilt - blocks are quilted before assembly, the seams are snipped every 1/4 inch.  Fabrics are the same on both sides.  Then the whole thing goes through the washer and dryer which frays the edges to make it soft.  It's 36 x 48.

String quilt for charity

 This is a quilt I made for the charity that my guild supports - CASA - comfort quilts for children taken from their homes for various reasons.  It is Bonnie Hunter's String-X pattern, found here.  I used up tons of strings, and it seems like I hardly made a dent in my bin!  The entire quilt was made from stash - the backing is a donation from a friend's mom.  I quilted a floral/hook pattern in the open spaces, and lines or hooks in the string sections.  It's 52 x 66.

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Quilting

Close up

Maddisen's T-shirts

Theses are Maddisen's high school memories.  The sashings and border are black with white dots.  the cornerstones and backing are purple with swirls.  So I quilted it with swirls using black thread in the sashings, and a simple meander in the shirts using white thread.  It's 77 x 91.

Purple cornerstone showing swirl quilting

Molly's Pillowcase

I made this quilt for Molly in 2009.  She's decided that she needs to have a "study pillow" to take to college with her.  She has some extra shirts.  So I used fleece to match the quilt, put two shirts on each side and a zipper on the end.  She can put a king size pillow in it and use it to lean against while studying.  Totally her idea!!  It's 23 x 41.

Betty's Musical Quilt

Betty made this quilt for her grandson who sings in a choir and also plays the piano.  I didn't get pictures of the whole thing, just the quilting.  The fabrics are the piano keys shown, plus rows of a huge choir in robes. You can just see the edge of a treble clef that she embroidered in the middle.   The fabrics are perfect for both of his hobbies.  I used a pantograph called "Music (notes only)  by Different Strokes, and used an eggshell colored thread that blends perfectly.

Jamie's T-shirts

This was actually a January finish, but I'm just now getting around to getting the pictures out of the camera and getting them posted.  Jamie is a Purdue grad, and these shirts are some great memories for her.  In fact, two of the sweatshirts were not going to be included because she still wore them. But she decided a couple days later that they needed to be in the quilt, so got them to me to be included.  We ended up adding and extra row to fit them in, so this quilt is extra long.  There are even 5 shirts on the back.  She had the great idea to outline the dark shirts in grey so they would not be lost in the black sashings.  The backing is the same black as the sashings on the front.  Size is 71 x 96.  Quilting is interlocking squares - free motion.

Friendship Star

This is the Block of the Month for my guild for January.  I made 5 so I have a greater chance of winning.  The request was for scrappy, so here they are!  They have a little taste of golf - the background fabric is white golf balls with a colored tee here and there.  They finish at 9".

Update - I won 23 blocks!!  So I'll have to make a few more to even it out, and to make it a little bigger.  This one will be a charity donation.

Memories for Grandma

This quilt was made with baby clothes for a Grandma going through chemo treatments.  The two dresses were worn by her two daughters, and the other three outfits were worn by all 8 of her grandchildren.  The ruffles on the dresses were left loose, as were the feet and collars of the other outfits.  All of their names are embroidered in the middle - the yellow are the two daughters, and the white names are the grandkids.  The sashings are parts of a quilt/blanket made by grandma.  So she can have her entire family wrapped around her as she goes through this tough time.  The backing is a blue fleece, and I did a stitch-in-the-ditch to hold the layers together.

Block of the Month

These are my two blocks for my guild's Dec Block of the Month.  It's the CARD TRICKS pattern, and are all to be red/white/blue.  The idea is that whoever wins the blocks will make a Quilt of Valor quilt to be donated to that fabulous program.  Hopefully that winner will be me!!

Dan's T-shirts

This was made for a co-worker who is an athletic trainer and health teacher.  T-shirts from college, and from our school system.  Quilting is medium all-over meander.  Size is 63 x 80 -plenty of length since he's over 6 ft.

Crown Royal bags

Jim had saved LOTS of Crown Royal whiskey bags, and this is what he wanted done with them.  (No - he didn't drink all of that - he got bags from friends also . . .)  There are 54 bags of various sizes covering every inch of the sport coat/suit jacket. There are very little bags down each side of the lapel, and a specialty NASCAR bag on the each shoulder.   Even the back collar is covered with a bag.  The bags on the body of the jacket I could machine stitch, but the ones on the sleeves had to be hand-stitched.  It's a good thing Jim has broad shoulders as the jacket now weighs a ton!!

Back collar

Quilt of Valor

This will be donated to the Quilt of Valor program, (info here) but especially to a local group that has just returned home.  It is pieced entirely of recycled shirts, including the back.  I saved the backs of the shirts to have large pieces for the backing.  There are a ton of feathers in the quilting.  I also made a presentation case and label for the back.  The case can be used as a pillow case also.  There is a strip of the case fabric across the back to pull it all together.  The organization will fill in the name of the recipient before it's presented.  It's 60 x 76.

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Presentation case

Label on quilt back

Feathered Wreath

Feathers in the star points

Kathy's T-shirts

Kathy is a golf friend who was a PE teacher and swim coach for 36 years.  She had so many shirts that we had to put 5 on the back.  The quilting pattern is a pantograph that looks like waves on the water.  She chose fish fabric for the back.  This is queen sized:  91 x 108.

5 shirts on the back

 

 

 

 

 

backing fabric and quilting pattern