Some quilts I've made through the years for my own family.
This is the 2nd quilt I ever made. I took a class to learn how to piece blocks, do applique, make binding and do hand-quilting.
The blocks were sent to me in a quilt swap and I put them together for this quilt.
Took another class to make this color wheel and to learn curved piecing.
I made this for a counter in our house in Texas.
I wanted to quilt something, and went online to QuiltersCache to find a pattern. I found God's Eye, and put it together, but ran out of the turquoise fabric. Then I found the Friday The Thirteenth block to surround it, but ran out of the orange batik fabric. Then I ran out of the turquoise batik fabric, and then ran out of the black fabric! It was amazing the quilt went together at all! After I completely machine quilted and bound it...someone noticed that the top "crown" in the God's Eye was pieced together wrong...ARGH. A quilter told me that if I hung the quilt right, God's Eye would point to Heaven...so that's how I hang it. It took me 28 hours to make this quilt.
I took a class to learn this strip-pieced triangle method of piecing a quilt. I got tired of the quilt, got tired of making the triangles, and shoved it in a box for about 18 years. I finished it a few weeks ago, putting the stripped pieces on as the border so I'd not have to make any more triangles.
My husband is prior Navy. I made this little wall hanging for him from a pattern. The black elements in the quilt (gull's wing feathers, lighthouse windows, rigging on sailboat) are actually drawn with a permanent marker.
I started this quilt when we lived in Guam in 1989, still in a hotel while we waited for housing. I worked on it every day in that tropical climate. One day, the Filipino hotel maid asked me why I bought fabric, and then cut it into pieces, just to sew it back together??? I had to explain cold climates, the old American craft, and renewed interest in antique skills. I didn't finish the 8th point until 20 years later, and then I slapped this quilt together with more haste than skill. I plan to take it apart now that I know what I am doing, and re-do the wrinkled back, the wonky star, and the lumpy borders.
My sister embroidered and sewed this quilt together when I had my youngest daughter. Over the years, the quilt was used and abused, going everywhere with her. I finally had to take it away when she was about 20 years old and refurbish it. A friend made it larger by adding strips, and in places where the blocks were missing, she embroidered and appliqued new blocks. She backed and bound the quilt, then tied it.
My daughter loved a charity quilt that I made so much, that after donating it, I went out and bought more fabric and made her one just like it.
This was an applique pattern that was beyond my skill level at the time I began. It got put away in storage for years before I finally finished it.
My daughter chose these fabrics and asked me to make her a quilt for any future babies she might have. There are no grandbabies, yet...
I made this to sell at a craft fair I ended up not attending. My daughter asked for it and so I gave it to her.
This is a lined fabric envelope with a velcro closure, and the notecards I made to put inside it. The photo of the flowers was taken by my husband.
Coasters made to match the above table-runner. The green and purple sets of coasters match table-runners now owned by my sister and my mother.
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