Amy's Sofa Quilt

 

I am embarrassed to say that Amy picked out these fabrics and I made the quilt top more than a year ago.  She wanted a log cabin, only scrappy.  In the mean time, she got rid of the old sofa and now has a new one.  Hopefully the colors still work.  It has been sitting patiently waiting for an open window of time to quilt it.  So, with Anson and Lorin's quilts done and the next one needing to be done in 6 weeks, I thought it a good time to get this one finished and outta here.  The quilt top was very pretty and I think I am getting the hang of this machine quilting thing.  I really did like the oak leaf and acorn border.

Here Kitty, Kitty

     Little girl's love animals.  It seems that they are either dog or cat people.  Lorin is a cat person.  She wanted cats on her 4-year old quilt.  This was a blast to make.  I really had a lot of fun.  The 4 blocks in the middle are Cat's Paws (sometimes called Bear Claw's -- but it's Lorin's quilt, so they are now Cat's Paws).  The applique cats were purchased in a die cut set and I love them.  The 2 cat's in the window blocks I got from the internet.  I sure hope she likes it!

     The sashings are strips from a fabric that had several different lines of cats -- on a wall, in the window, and in the garden.  I thought they added the right touch.  Of course, being a girlie girl, she wanted pink and purple.  How can you resist that?

     Although you can't see it here, the big purple border has alternating cats and "meow" quilted in it.

                         

Superheros!!!

My grandson Anson is late in getting his four year old quilt. This is mostly Grandma's fault, but I think it was probably worth the wait. This is hands down the coolest quilt I have ever made. Maybe the coolest quilt I will ever make. I know there will be prettier ones and most definitely technically more challenging quilts, but cool, I really doubt it. What I learned from this quilt is that really simple quilting is not only OK, but sometimes the very best thing. I had a lot of fun with this quilt. Every step just made me grin because it was turning out so well. Hope you like it!


 

Strawberries, just strawberries

Lily wanted strawberries on her 4 year old quilt.  Ok.  So, this one took quite a bit of thinking and I think I really like what I came up with.  I decided that I would have blocks 1-9 with the corresponding number of strawberries in each.  The pink striped material I found down in Penn Yan at one of the Mennonite shops.  Then I took a pattern called the flower basket and made blocks and added strawberries to the middle. 

I love my Baby Loc!  I love that tear away paper called Golden Threads.  I love in-line quilting!  It was a fun quilt to make. 

Star Wars Quilt

Evan wanted a "StarWars" quilt.  I think I came up with what I hope will be right up his alley.  I became an expert paper piecer putting this one together.  I really love how all the star blocks look.  I have to admit, I thought the material I used for the sashings was blue.  It wasn't until Amy was helping me sandwhich it that I learned it was purple.  I knew I loved that material for some reason!  The quilting was a little difficult because I decided to follow the patterning in each block.  But I do like the affect.  I quilted a loopy line and star pattern in the last border.  I was really glad I decided to use black thread on the top because although you can see it, it blends nicely.

I also used a product called Golden Threads Quilting Paper in the last border.  I LOVE IT!!! And, would highly recommend it to anyone who does any amount of quilting.  It tears away perfectly.  It would be great for hand quilters too.  I just can't say enough about it.  The quilt was finished and delivered 17 January 2011.

Funky Log Cabin

 This Funky Log Cabin was made for Melissa VanRy Sheh as a wedding gift.  The wedding was in June and here I am just finishing it.  In my defence, I have been on 3 vacations since the wedding, finished 2 other quilts, pulled off a weekend retreat for 175 women, and took care of Rod and I, each post minor surgery.  So, I guess it's not really so surprising that it is just now getting done.  The most valuable thing I learned from this quilt was to make sure the back is securely taped down before adding the batting and top and to stick with my Warm and Natural batting.  The back isn't as nice as I would like for it to be-- it got some folds in the process, but it's going out just the same.  Somehow the wildness of the fabrics work.

Fishies 7/2010

This quilt is a belated birthday present for my friend Coreen. She is Hawaiian and loves tropicals and fish.  I started this quilt more years ago than I want to admit.  I did the cross stitching and then tried to quilt it, but it was awful so I took all the stitching out and it has sat since then.  I didn't like the borders I had on it so I took them off and put these on.  Then I fired up the Baby Lock.  I think it came out great and I can't wait for her to get it.