Monday, November 8, 2010

Ruth's Wedding Quilt

Ruth made this for her grand daughter. It was a labor of love since she would not have chosen to use so much purple.
But the bride's mom is sure that her daughter will like this cheerful quilt with many symbols of love and hope quilted into it.




My One Block Wonder

One Block Wonder is kind of like a hexagonal Stack and Whack. You can see the fabric that I cut up for the blocks in it's entirety in the border.
I organized the blocks according to the predominating instrument. Here are some guitars.

Piano keys and guitar parts...

Trumpets, saxophones, and drums.....

More drums.

Luscious black minkee on the back. This is a wedding gift for a friend. They are both muscians.





Susan's Scrappy 9 patch

Isn't this a cheerful scrap quilt?
It is quilted with Jodi Beamish's "Daisy Swirl" pantograph.

Elaine's Quilts of Valor

Elaine and I have collaborated on making many quilts for wounded soldiers. Elaine entered a scrap challenge in our guild and has decided to donate the results to this worthy cause.
We made these with flannel scraps and the Yellow Brick Road piecing pattern.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Lori's Dear Jane

Lori chose to use Asian fabrics to make her Dear Jane.
She stitched together several panels to create a beautiful backing.

It is quilted in a non-traditional way to match the non-traditional fabrics.

Lori's piecing is exemplary!
This is the center of the quilt. She created a secondary pattern with her color choices. Green in the center, a diamond of gold, a larger diamond of red and so on out to the edge of the quilt. I never saw a repeat of the dark fabrics!

There are a lot of "odd ball" blocks in this quilt, and somehow they make more sense in Asian fabrics.

OK - I'll be quiet and let you look.











Karen's Flowered Frames

This pattern was published by "Blue Underground".
It is quilted with "Square Spriral" in variegated thread.

Sandy's Fire Escape

Isn't this a fun yet simple pattern? And Sandy chose great batik fabrics (that didn't photograph very well).
It is quilted with "Blowing in the Wind".

Sharon's Cascade

Sharon used fabric manufactured by Blank containing these gradations.
It is quilted with "Square Spirals".




Cindy's Christmas Throws

Cindy used a bunch of small Christmas fabric samples to make these "His and Hers" sofa throws.
"Hers" is quilted with "Blowing in the Wind" and "His" is quilted with "Holly Leaves".

Lyn's Bright Stars

It was a bee challenge to use the multi-colored fabric that appears in each star.
Lyn did a great job piecing this tricky pattern. It is custom quilted.