Here is Tiles 2: They finally ran out of the red for the border, so this one only has two red borders!



These are the threads that I removed from the seams of just this one quilt. These were on the TOP of the quilt! Fragile, flimsy fabric, and they weren't concerned with the finer details of trimming threads!



For these two quilts, I just did a large, meander. The backings of both of them are Stonehenge Grey to go with the grey and black fabrics for a masculine feel.

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I don't know the name of this block, but I call it Tiles 1.



These fabrics are really fragile and I just quilted an overall meander to hold it together.



And the red is NOT color-fast! :shock:

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Here is the second Double Pinwheel quilt.



Similar fabrics in the top. I used a green backing on one and a blue backing on the other.
Same angular quilting design.

Double Pinwheel 1

The fabrics on this top are sturdy enough for some gentle use. There are lots of different khaki fabrics and shirtings.



I used an edge-to-edge design to repeat the angles of the block layout.



And there is lots of creative piecing!

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Turkey Tracks.



This one had a surprise on the back. It was probably feed sack fabric, but it was fun to see the number 2012 on the back of one piece of it!



I think these fabrics are strong enough for gentle use so I added a little more decorative quilting. The fabrics range from feed sacks to highly polished cotton, to linen to almost a burlap texture!

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I called this one "Geese On The Square"

I really think that it is too fragile for much use as a quilt, but hope someone will be glad to have it as a family momento.





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This Churn Dash top has some interesting fabrics and creative piecing.





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My sister-in-law found these 10 quilt tops in her mother's attic. She thinks (?) they were made by her grandmother, and asked me in February to quilt them in time for Christmas gifts for members of her family. OK......I'm getting them quilted on my Handi-Quilter 16, but there is no fancy quilting here.

First of all...these are charming quilt tops! I really think they were created by at least 2 people. It looks to me like one person pieced all of the blocks by hand and assembled some of the tops and I think that someone else (possibly?) assembled some of the quilts with a machine. At any rate, we are talking about very frugal folks. Most of the blocks have patches that have been assembled from a variety of similar fabrics. I'll show you some of the photos I took along the way. The photos of all the quilts were taken before they were quilted.

Also....grain of fabric, matching corners of piecing and sashing, trimming extra threads, and any pressing at all were NOT on the agenda of whoever pieced these tops! Bless their hearts!

It would have been congruent with the period of the fabrics to have used muslin on the backs of all of them but Brenda asked for colored fabric backs, and I was able to find extra wide backing fabrics for all of them so I didn't have to mess with seaming the backing fabric.

The first quilt I called "Bull's Eye", but I don't really know what the pattern name is. After quilting and washing/blocking it now measures 62" x 71". This is one that will probably be OK to get some gentle use. Most of the fabrics are woven plaids, and I was able to find a blue flannel backing that is very close to the color of the sashing. The blocks are small enough that I could quilt a motif in each block with my (robotic) Pro Stitcher with one pass, then do some free motion continuous curves in the sashing.



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